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Coming of Age
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My arms are no longer long enough, so I spent my tax return on new bifocals AND separate computer/reading glasses.

Yay! I've arrived!

It's a far cry from the days of blowing the "free money" on hookers and blow.

Now get off my lawn.

Travis Rassat
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Noblesville, IN
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Re: Coming of Age [Travis R] [ In reply to ]
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Next up for you: A review on which product works better- Viagra or Cialis?






Take a short break from ST and read my blog:
http://tri-banter.blogspot.com/
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Re: Coming of Age [Travis R] [ In reply to ]
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 You apparently still loan the Goverment money interest free. So... not quite an adult just yet.
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Re: Coming of Age [Tri-Banter] [ In reply to ]
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Being in central Indiana, home to Eli Lilly, I guess I probably need to opt for Cialis. Can you crush them and snort them for the full rock 'n roll effect?

Travis Rassat
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Noblesville, IN
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Re: Coming of Age [ajthomas] [ In reply to ]
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Thanks - you make me feel young!

I'm sure they put my money to good use.

Travis Rassat
Vector Cycle Works
Noblesville, IN
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Toughman Triathlon Series Ambassador
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Re: Coming of Age [Travis R] [ In reply to ]
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Bifocal contacts really work well.

I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.
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Re: Coming of Age [Tri-Banter] [ In reply to ]
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Tri-Banter wrote:
Next up for you: A review on which product works better- Viagra or Cialis?
I had the opportunity to try both over the last couple of months. Viagra no question
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Re: Coming of Age [Travis R] [ In reply to ]
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I e got some weird stuff going on with my eyes. For the last three years I've gotten my contact exam, and each time my eyes have gotten better where they reduce the strength of my prescription. I'm due for another exam now just got a reminder in the mail.

My eye sight is so good now, I stopped wearing my contacts about 3 months ago. Freaking me out a little
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Re: Coming of Age [SkipG] [ In reply to ]
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SkipG wrote:
My eye sight is so good now, I stopped wearing my contacts about 3 months ago. Freaking me out a little
You might want to avoid mentioning that on the main forum. Well known side effect of HGH.
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Re: Coming of Age [Travis R] [ In reply to ]
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Another recommendation for bifocal contact lenses. I have the contact lenses that you can leave in for a month, super convenient.
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Re: Coming of Age [Tri-Banter] [ In reply to ]
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Tri-Banter wrote:
Next up for you: A review on which product works better- Viagra or Cialis?

Cialis.
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Re: Coming of Age [j p o] [ In reply to ]
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I've had contacts for years, but I'm just horribly undisciplined with them and find them to be very uncomfortable (which is probably because I'm horribly undisciplined with them). Matter of fact, the last time I got glasses, I bought about a dozen boxes of daily wear contacts, and I'm not sure I've even cracked the second set of boxes.

Travis Rassat
Vector Cycle Works
Noblesville, IN
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SkipG wrote:
I e got some weird stuff going on with my eyes. For the last three years I've gotten my contact exam, and each time my eyes have gotten better where they reduce the strength of my prescription. I'm due for another exam now just got a reminder in the mail.

My eye sight is so good now, I stopped wearing my contacts about 3 months ago. Freaking me out a little

If you were shortsighted when you were younger, that can get better with age sometimes. The same stiffening of your eye's lens that causes folks with decent eyesight in their younger days to have to hold printed text way out far to read it as the age, can actually help correct shortsightedness that caused you to have to hold printed text close to read it when you were younger.
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Re: Coming of Age [Travis R] [ In reply to ]
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My arms are no longer long enough, so I spent my tax return on new bifocals AND separate computer/reading glasses.

I'd recommend that you get progressive lenses as soon as possible. Your brain has to learn how to use progressives. Now that you only need a small near vision add it won't be as hard to adjust and as you get older and get incrementally more add you won't have trouble. If you wait until you need more add it will be harder to adapt to progressive lenses.

I'm surprised that any optometrist or optician these days would start patients on bifocals. If someone has been using bifocals for years and isn't interested in changing that is fine but new presbyopes belong in progressive lenses unless there is some other vision problem that precludes them.

Progressive lenses have improved immensely over the last 20 years. I have a pair of computer spectacles but I never use them. The intermediate area of my general progressive lenses is large enough that I have no trouble.
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Re: Coming of Age [outerlimit] [ In reply to ]
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outerlimit wrote:
I'd recommend that you get progressive lenses as soon as possible. Your brain has to learn how to use progressives. Now that you only need a small near vision add it won't be as hard to adjust and as you get older and get incrementally more add you won't have trouble. If you wait until you need more add it will be harder to adapt to progressive lenses.

I'm surprised that any optometrist or optician these days would start patients on bifocals. If someone has been using bifocals for years and isn't interested in changing that is fine but new presbyopes belong in progressive lenses unless there is some other vision problem that precludes them.

Progressive lenses have improved immensely over the last 20 years. I have a pair of computer spectacles but I never use them. The intermediate area of my general progressive lenses is large enough that I have no trouble.

Thanks for the thoughts! I actually did get progressives. I did opt for the best ones they offered. It will be interesting to see (no pun intended) if they end up making the separate computer glasses unnecessary, like you have experienced. The guy who helped me with the fitting and lens selection said it took him about 4 or 5 days to get used to the progressives.

Travis Rassat
Vector Cycle Works
Noblesville, IN
BikeFit Instructor | FMS | F.I.S.T. | IBFI
Toughman Triathlon Series Ambassador
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Re: Coming of Age [Travis R] [ In reply to ]
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One of my temp jobs in the 1980's was at a lab (Omega which is now Essilor). We had to remake a lot of progressives as bifocals because there were still a lot of non-adapts.

When my ophthalmologist suggested progressives I told him I knew about all the problems people have with progressives and didn't think they were for me. I told him about all the remakes at my lab and he assured me that progressives had improved a lot in the 20 years since I used to make glasses and now there are almost no non-adapts when presbyopes start on progressives.
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