New glasses

I picked up my new glasses yesterday, and at the moment am a bit disappointed. Part of that is that it's taking my eyes some time to get used to the new prescription (and possibly new shape and that they sit slightly differently on my face). Half an hour after I picked them up, my right eye was hurting; I switched back to the old ones for my workout, and didn't put these back on until I got home. They're more comfortable now.

The problem is that I'm not noticing an improvement. Rationally, I shouldn't be surprised by this: the eye doctor says the best that current medical technology can do for me is 20/30, which is what the previous prescription gave me. At the same time, I was forever fiddling with the old ones, and had trouble keeping them clean, and was hoping that new would mean improved. With any luck, the more rigid frames will mean that once I do get settled in with these, they'll stay settled in and not get slightly out of true.

Yes, it's a golden age of materials science. That means my 20/30 vision comes with snazzy purple frames and the lenses are lighter than they would have been a few years ago. But it doesn't change optics or the physiology of the human eye. (I will note here that an optician said, and my eye doctor confirmed, that surgery wouldn't give me better than 20/30 either; at best, I could have 20/30 without glasses. So I'm not doing that.) And it doesn't let me read some of the tiny print in newspaper puzzles, at least not by the light in my living room at night.

( as long as I'm posting, yesterday's workout )