Lament 3: Cry Hard With A Vengeance

[Infinity Biscuit]

Oh no the upset wasn't about not getting the job or anything; I'll learn that in a couple weeks

It's an engineering position which would be great because that's kind of what I'm trained for :L

[Flagg]

Old... So old...

[Oxymoron]

You know, I still have difficulties processing the fact that those newborns I saw people carry here and there in the streets in the late 1990's and early 2000's are the same teenagers I see nowadays hanging near the gates of the middle and high-schools here.

[Gands]

You know, I still have difficulties processing the fact that those newborns I saw people carry here and there in the streets in the late 1990's and early 2000's are the same teenagers I see nowadays hanging near the gates of the middle and high-schools here.

I know what you mean. I teach children who aren't even as old as the film Iron Man.

[The Spartan]

Dude... my cousins that I held when they were infants have infants of their own now. One has a toddler.

[Infinity Biscuit]

As far as I can tell no one in my generation of the family has kids yet, despite some being in their 30s.

[Oxymoron]

two of my three sisters have kids now

or more exactly two of my sisters have each birthed a daughter.

[timmy]

My mother was the youngest of ten + children, my father was the oldest of five. At the age of thirty-whatever myself, this means I have cousins still in high school and cousins that are grandparents.

It's a mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad world

[timmy]

Mind you my friend Alinta can beat that. She's five years younger than me, but we discovered her uncle had been a next door neighbour of mine; we had been the same age. She also has a few uncles that are actually younger than her by ten years. Her grandfather was... Prolific.

[joviwan]

So I just had a meeting with the CTO of the district.

By all accounts, of everyone who has the position I wanted and the CTO herself, I should have the full time, salaried position I applied for. The reason I don't is because the budget that they were using to hire people was cut from underneath them after my second interview process. I was 5 out of 6 people they were hiring, and suddenly they could only hire 4.

sigh.

[evilsoup]

Damn. Sorry to hear that.

[joviwan]

There's some hope for the future, it's just frustrating. Like, if I was a bad person or bad for the position, that'd be something I could fix and have control over. Instead, nope, someone just wanted more money for another thing.

On the plus side, Cosmic Star Heroine's kickstarted released this http://zeboyd.com/wp-content/uploads/20 ... pscale.png so I'm feeling a little better existentially.

[Infinity Biscuit]

to cut down on repeated stuff I'll just link my post here

one thing I forgot to add was that I haven't really had a chance to spend time naked outside a lot this year so this was a really really nice chance to get that in too

[Darksi4190]

yeah. These reading glasses aren't doing shit, and the only response i'm getting from the ophthalmologist is "give yourself more time to adjust." I now experience eye pain when I:

1. Drive my car
2. Go to work
3. walk

All of which are activities I shouldn't need the glasses for according to his diagnosis.

I think it's time to get a second opinion.

[Bounty]

How long have you had the glasses? It can actually take your eyes quite a while to adjust.

[The Spartan]

That happened to me a few years back. This was after having worn glasses or contacts for 15 years, 20...

The new glasses just focused differently, I guess(?), and it was like my eyes needed to be in a different position to see, which led to eye and head aches. It resolved itself, but it took a couple weeks.

Then I got LASIK and don't worry about it anymore.

[Oxymoron]

I'm the only one in my family who doesn't need glasses or contacts to be able to see perfectly.

I sometimes wonder why...

[Darksi4190]

How long have you had the glasses? It can actually take your eyes quite a while to adjust.

2 weeks last Thursday, and I'm honestly not noticing any improvement, and they say they're only for reading, but I notice the tension and pain while i'm looking at things farther away than reading distance.

[Darksi4190]

Then I got LASIK and don't worry about it anymore.

How effective was the LASIK, and how much did it cost? If I can't adjust to glasses, I might need to look into it.

[The Spartan]

The LASIK gave me 20/15 vision. So very effective.

The cost, if I remember right, was around $4500 seven years ago. Your mileage may very depending on where you are, what your medical care access situation is, etc.

One thing I will say is that this isn't the thing you shop around for a bargain on. Shop for competence, not price. Then pay whatever the cost is, if you can, and pass if you can't.

[evilsoup]

pfft, I'll do it for $50 with a laser pen made out of an old DVD drive laser
can't say fairer than that

[Oxymoron]

pfft, I'll do it for $50 with a laser pen made out of an old DVD drive laser
can't say fairer than that

CYBERPUNK STREET DOCTOR

[Infinity Biscuit]

Is LASIK something covered by insurance anymore or is it still something purely out of pocket?

[The Spartan]

For me it was out-of-pocket. (And it was actually my parents footing the bill...)

Now, I think it depends on your insurance.

[Darksi4190]

One thing my doctor suggested was to get new lenses that are actually half my current prescription and wear them for a few months to allow my eyes to get used to glasses before kicking it up to the full amount, but each lens change would be like 100$ out of pocket since I don't have optical coverage.