eyesintim

It’s been Tim’s infrastructure week, aka health care week . Today was the eye doctor to get the required yearly update to my prescription so I can order new contacts (a racket that burns my blood). Two highlights:

1- I made the appointment yesterday, and got it today. Unheard of. The doctor thinks it’s because lots of federal workers here are cancelling their appointments last minute, for fear of being out of the office for too long.

2- I wear two very different strength contacts, which allows me to both see far and read up close — monovision. Our amazing brains just figures out how to put the images together correctly. Turns out, I’ve been wearing them backwards for years, wearing the left contact in my right eye & vice versa. So, now I’m wearing them in the correct eyes and…there’s not much difference. Our brains are amazing.

Anyway, here was my beautiful DC view while waiting to be told the lie that I’d been living: