Stuff, including exercise

[redbird]

I still don't have new glasses. I stopped at an optician's after work on Friday, and am tempted by the kind of "frames" that are just a little nose-piece connecting the lenses, and an ear-piece on each side. The advantage is that it would be lightweight, and that being slightly smaller might also reduce rubbing against my cheeks. The disadvantage is that it might be more fragile than the regular kind, and possibly easier to damage by losing track of where it is. (With the current pair, when I'm showering at the gym, I just set them on top of the bag that has my dirty clothes; with barely visible ones, I might wear them into the shower.) These look almost as though I'm not wearing glasses. I don't know if that would be an advantage or a disadvantage, or have some of each; it would certainly be a change. I've been wearing glasses almost all the time I'm not in bed for decades.

I had another session with Emilie today. I had time beforehand to use a couple of the machines (chest press and calf raise). Emilie and I worked on stretches, and some ways of massaging out tight muscles (including the ones right around the elbow). The elbow exercises involve digging in hard with the fingers of the other hand, and then rotating the arm I'm working on.

There's a glute massage that involves the spaldeen, sort of rolling it around at the outer edge of the butt. We also did a bunch of stuff for my hamstrings, and she finished with a new-to-me and more difficult way of doing crunches. I found that a bit hard emotionally as well as physically; not only did the skin at the back of my head hurt from it, but I thought I had crunches pretty well down, after (ages ago) long months of getting through them by going "I hate crunches" over and over in my head as I counted to 15, so having them be difficult and somewhat painful was disturbing. But I am handling stairs a bit better (fortunately, as one of the elevators I was counting on this morning was temporarily out of service).

I won't be able to do all this stuff while at Wiscon, but I can pack a spaldeen for the foot massage, and keep up with my usual stuff for the shoulder.

My computer continues to be troublesome; I think cattitude is right that we need to reinstall Windows. But that's probably a weekend project, meaning either he does it while I'm at Wiscon, or it waits another week. (I am likely to go for Windows 7, and seriously considering a dual-boot system with Linux as well.) In the meantime, I have a command window open ready to restart fsgk32.exe the next time it falls over, since that's the current failure mode. Annoying to need to do, but doable.

And I think I'm having a relapse of the infection on my foot; I'm going to call the doctor again when I get back from Wiscon. (I don't feel like trying to squeeze in a visit tomorrow.)

Comments

[ten]

I have frameless glasses and so far, they survived my two-cats-household pretty well. Putting them down somewhere not completely thoughtlessly (not at the edge of something they can be pawed fall off of, not somewhere people sit down, using a case for putting them in my bag) became a habit really quickly, and I'm not a person who easily develops habits.
The small added extra care is definitely worth the light weight and the lack of frames in my field of vision for me.
(I also have an insurance for them that costs me €10/year and kicks in for pretty much everything but purposeful damage to my glasses. I'd ask your optician if such an option exists for you, too.)

[jesse_the_k]

Frameless glasses are so pretty. Especially with the shiny rolled edges -- they look like elven glasses :,)

[webbob]

You could treat yourself to the frameless pair as a jewelry item and wear it accordingly. Meaning, presumably not in the gym. Or on the other hand, with lens coatings available now, a frameless pair you could wear right into the shower would be quite cool.

[janetl.livejournal.com]

I got some of those "just a little nose-piece connecting the lenses, and an ear-piece on each side" glasses a few years ago, and hated them. They are indeed very lightweight, and I know people who have them and love them, so it may just be me. What I disliked was that they are less rigid.
You have to use two hands to put them on, so if you're driving and want to switch between sunglasses and regular glasses you have to take both hands off of the wheel or pull off of the road.
When you pull a t-shirt or sweatshirt on or off over your head, you're likely to smoosh the lenses against your skin just enough to get them smudged up. I'm paranoid about scratching plastic lenses, so I only clean them by running water over them and rubbing dry with a clean cotton towel. Not convenient to do just anywhere. So there I am, standing straddling my bike, wanting to take off a sweatshirt because I've warmed up, and don't want to end up with glasses that are hard to see through. Do I take them off and put them down on the sidewalk? Try to hold them in one hand while struggling out of the garment? A nuisance.