silver vs. gold (nope: The topic is eyeglasses coding.)

[bloke]

My cataracts are not all that bad yet. I don't need lectures about how easy/relatively painless/quick/blah-blah-blah. I'm busy, and I believe I see better than tons of post-cataract-operation people. Also, the version of the surgery that offers more options isn't covered by most private/public insurance, so (if I choose to go for the fancier version) I'll need to budget for it.

Up until recently, I haven't even been wearing glasses - other than dime store magnifiers for instrument repair...but they weren't quite doing the job.
I see well enough to drive with no glasses (remember: I'm old), and my distance vision can only be improved just a bit (again: with progressing cataracts, which are moderate-but-not-epic yet) just a bit. A couple of years ago (vision no worse than now), I drove to Wisconsin and back (probably 1/4 - 1/3 two-lane roads, and some hours of night driving) with no eyeglasses.

I never had any "music reading" (30-or-so inches away) glasses, but (candidly) lately, I've been doing some guessing, and relying on having played a whole bunch of stuff before.

I recently went to the eyeglasses place that I went to last (remarkably capable - oh: and pretty - doctor), and it had been so long that they had no records of me at all.

I ended up purchasing a pair of driving (distance) glasses, two pair of close-up reading glasses (one for the shop, and one for inside the house), and a pair of (never had this before, but have needed them for a while) music-reading (again: short/intermediate distance) glasses...no more guessing.

bifocals? trifocals? transitional? I despise all of them, and yes, I've tried them...a bunch of idiotic "nodding". no, nope, and no sir.

Anyway, this place has low prices, whereas the examinations and glasses cost about what some charge for examinations along, and (important) they are thorough/conscientious/etc. (Yes, I completely realize there are all sorts of "deals" on glasses...$7 glasses, etc., etc...)

TWO of the types of glasses actually feature a no-prescription lens in one eye...Quite predictably, they are opposite eyes in the two different pairs (close reading vs. distance).

OK...I've typed a whole bunch of stuff that will either encourage people to attempt to talk me in to embracing other tacks, or will encourage them to talk all about their eyes and spectacles...

but this is actually ALL that I wanted to show:

All four pair are the same frames. (I'm my judgement, this style cloaks some of my facial hideousness.)

My CAR is silver so I painted the inner hinges on the DISTANCE/DRIVING glasses silver.

My TUBAS are gold (or used to be) to I painted the inner hinges on the INTERMEDIATE/MUSIC READING glasses gold.

The two pair of close-up/reading glasses remain unpainted.

[Mary Ann]

I quit wearing bifocals about five yeas ago and now have only single vision distance and music / computer. I wear the music all the time and the distance only for night driving. I'm near sighted and so for reading books they come off. For reed making I have a magnifying glass and some store-bought "readers" that would better fit the faces of most tuba players.

I'm with you on bifocals. They are a PITA, and unless you're in a situation like school, where you have to go rapidly between seeing what's on the board (do they still use those?) and the paper you're taking notes on, you just don't need them.