3 min post to try and finish before midnight.

Made it to the optometrist. Bit of a shock there. Discovered that I couldn't read the eyechart below about the 3rd or 4th row. Definitely not as good as I remembered. Poke poke prod flashlight later and some lenses are put in front of my eyes. Now I can read all the lines down to the bottom. Very definite improvement. Hmmmm. Turns out the better eye is just on the side of being legal to drive without glasses but the worse eye is just on the other side. Average is just legal without, but only just.

So, I have a box of 4 frames I have been trying out this evening (narrowed down from a larger bunch in the shop), which various people got to comment on at Council meeting. Looks like the lightest weight ones with no frame on the bottom suit best (and coincidentally are the cheapest). Quite modern looking, but reasonably unobtrusive. Will take things back and place orders tomorrow.

What I want to know is how I managed not to notice things were so out of focus in the background for so long... Definite shock to work out how much things have changed in only the past few years.

Baseline note for reference - passed eye test for drivers license fine in ~2004? Mind you, that was 3 years ago.