I Passed My Eye Test.....

Last Thursday I wrote about weight loss. One of the suggestions was stop multitasking. The article said if you work at one thing you will devote your entire concentration to it. If you are doing several things your mind tends to wander, giving you more time to think about food. It's only natural to think about something you can't have.

The first week I stopped smoking I thought of nothing but. When I fast overnight for a blood test all I think about is food, in the morning it's coffee. When I was a teen my mind was always on sex. It's natural to think about things we want and can't have.

Today I discovered there may just be help for people feeling overwhelmed by their day to day responsibilities. 

Clad in a black nun's robe and holding a scythe in one hand, Santa Muerte appeals to people seeking all manner of otherworldly help: from fending off wrongdoing and carrying out vengeance to stopping lovers from cheating and landing better jobs. Others seek her protection for their drug shipments and to ward off law enforcement.

"Her growth in the United States has been extraordinary," said Andrew Chesnut, author of "Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint. Because you can ask her for anything, she has mass appeal and is now gaining a diverse group of followers throughout the country. She's the ultimate multitasker." 

Santa Muerte is a skeleton. It seems you can multitask and still lose weight.

I've been wearing glasses most of my life. I was a goofy looking six year old with horn-rimmed glasses sitting on his nose. I actually have indentations on each side of my skull just above my ears. I did wear contacts for a short time but my glasses have been a part of me for over fifty years. Last Friday I had an eye exam and I passed. Over all these years a few things have changed but the test itself is basically the same. What's better, number one or number two?

You first look into a couple of machines to establish a baseline prescription. Then you sit in a chair that has a device called a phoroptor or refractor attached to it. You look through the device and focus on an eye chart 20 feet away. The device contains lenses of different strengths that can be moved into your view. The test is performed one eye at a time.

The eye doctor doing the test asks if the letters are more or less clear when the different lenses are in place. Better number one or number two? Eventually I can't tell and start to guess. Friday the doc said. "I want to get to the place where there's little or no difference between the two." Why didn't you say that ten minutes ago I thought. We could have saved some time.

So, I got my new lens prescription. The right eye was the same as two years ago and the left changed slightly. I have no signs of cataracts. I ordered new frames for the first time in my life without first looking at the price tag. And, I still don't know for sure, better number one or better number two?