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[Max White]

Hey Ochita, have I not seen you in a while?
Or am I just imagining thins...

[Ochita]

Nah its true, I post a lot less now, infact I only like post on a couple of threads or something like that right now, so eh.
I just don't really have that much to talk about or be involved with now.

[Max White]

That is a bit sad... You are a pretty nice guy.

[JoshuaFH]

Lots of people need glasses sooner or later, Joshua. I started wearing glasses when I was in 6th grade, and got newer updated ones just a couple of years ago. Both of my parents wear glasses (though they're the opposite of mine; they need reading glasses up close while I need glasses for far-away stuff), and my sister might need them as well.

Point is, it's nothing to hate yourself over. Heck, you might be one of those people who look twenty times cooler with them!

FAKE EDIT @ MSH: Heh, yeah. When I got my glasses, I was shocked at how sharp the world actually looked. I remember looking at the moon one night after getting them and freaking out because I could actually see the craters and stuff

I suppose it's a bit of an overreaction given how common needing glasses is. I suppose it's just that I dread being forced to acknowledge that I'm getting older and parts of me are deteriorating.

Also in my new job I'm surrounded by middle-aged and older folks, who are all very friendly and supportive so I'll never hold anything against them, but in my idle thoughts I think deeply on the direction my life is going. Exacerbated when one shows everyone the pictures of her cruise line vacation, and I just think "Man is this the kind of utterly boring and trivial things I should expect when I get older?". I feel that these kind of inner thoughts are the most deleterious element of my life, which is actually progressing very smoothly and so far, I'm getting alot done and things are looking up. It's just when I'm thinking about other crap that I bring myself down.

Maybe I shouldn't worry about it, even to me it seems just selfish, but my first paycheck is just a hop and a skip away, so I have that to look forward to. I'm not sure yet what I'm gonna spend it on.

[alway]

I'm not sure yet what I'm gonna spend it on.

Glasses.

But yeah, if you do anything that can be done in a cubicle, you have a pretty good chance of needing glasses in your lifetime. Myself, my clear vision ends at about 4 inches, in large part because I grew up on the computer.

And to avoid becoming a boring old person, remember to stay eccentric. Cruise? Boring. Go to conventions and take up an obscure hobby or three.

[SalmonGod]

I'm not sure yet what I'm gonna spend it on.

Glasses.

But yeah, if you do anything that can be done in a cubicle, you have a pretty good chance of needing glasses in your lifetime. Myself, my clear vision ends at about 4 inches, in large part because I grew up on the computer.

And to avoid becoming a boring old person, remember to stay eccentric. Cruise? Boring. Go to conventions and take up an obscure hobby or three.

I don't really think it's screens.  I think most people's vision deteriorates because they immerse themselves in too much bright light.  Seriously.  I've always been a night owl.  I spent countless hours of my childhood reading books by moonlight through my bedroom window, or huddled in front of a computer screen in an otherwise pitch dark room.  All the things that are supposed to kill your eyes.  And I should have horrible eyes.  Both my parents needed glasses when they were still teenagers.

But my vision was actually improving continually all the way up into young adulthood.  By my early twenties, I literally had better than 20/20 vision.  Until I started working in this office.  They have those ridiculously huge and bright fluorescent tube lights every other ceiling tile.  It took painful months for my eyes to adjust to the overabundance of light, and I've noticed since that my vision has deteriorated.  Not to the point that I need glasses yet, but enough to piss me off.  I go home and turn the lights off in my computer room and gaze at a pleasant dark-themed wallpaper, and if my eyes had vocal chords, they would groan with relief.

[Max White]

Yea, fluorescent lights are bad for your eyes.
Incandescent lights are actually best, but they always burn out and use too much energy.

[Mech#4]

I remember a hotel I stayed in once had fluorescent lighting in the bathroom. The harsh light really does a good job of highlighting skin blotches, wrinkles and general pastiness. 

[Max White]

Heaps of tiny pin point cuts?
Or did you have a very thick beard and your skin is in dire need of some sunlight?

[Max White]

Ah, flakes.
You don't need for your skin to get 'tougher' so much as remove dead layers. Personally, every night I slice up a lemon and rub lemon juice into my skin. Makes for a cleaner complexion and helps get rid of acne.

[Mech#4]

I use a flannel.

[Max White]

Pfft, not rubbing an acid into your face. Why even? Next you will be telling me you don't apply tiny amounts of bleach to your eyes to make them blue!

[buckets]

Pfft, not rubbing an acid into your face. Why even? Next you will be telling me you don't apply tiny amounts of bleach to your eyes to make them blue!

Wait, bleach turns your eyes blue? Hmmm, how much is tiny?

[Mech#4]

Pfft, not rubbing an acid into your face. Why even? Next you will be telling me you don't apply tiny amounts of bleach to your eyes to make them blue!

[smug]Don't need too.[/smug] 

[Max White]

Wait, bleach turns your eyes blue? Hmmm, how much is tiny?

An amount so small it could never be measured out by a human, and delivered so precisely it could never be done without robotic aid, with incredibly high risk of causing blindness if any mistake is made.

There is a reason it isn't done.