Saturday, May 26, 2012

Dream of the car-pushing tornado from the future.

I had a dream this morning that I was about a 100 miles west of my current home. I was swimming in some basement pool and a young kid started getting all mouthy about the learning disabled kids he knows, intimating that I was a normal person who had become learning disabled as an adult. I went to make an exit from the pool in disgust but the lifeguard had put a sign on the door saying there was a 7/8ths chance of a tornado this afternoon. Really? That means it won't miss, right? So I go to take a shower, but somebody upstairs starts giving me a bit of a hassle so I skip the shower and go to hop in my car. I sat in my car parked along a country roadside listening to the radio for 10 minutes as a beautiful sunny day starts clouding over very quickly. I wondered if the 7/8ths tornado risk would subside to something less if I just drove 100 miles home to beat the storm, if there was one. There didn't appear to be a storm anywhere, but these clouds moving in so quickly was causing me a bit of concern. So I turned my head around to the left then saw some crazy tornado spinning up an 1/8th of a mile away and it looked like it was headed for my car. I got out of the car in case I had to look for a ditch to lay down in. The tornado got stronger to an EF1 and crossed the road about 50 feet behind my car and went into some woods. I spotted it coming out of the woods and back onto my road, then it reversed direction and started coming towards the front of my car. I headed for the ditch on the other side of the road on foot. The tornado hit the front of my car, broke the brakes, and started pushing it backwards down the road towards an intersection. The tornado pushed my car around the corner then down another road into oncoming traffic and smashed it at like 25 mph into an oncoming car doing at least 40 mph that rear-ended my car, impact 65 mph+. I finally caught up to this madness, and I felt a twinge of panic because I didn't have my cell phone on me, and a guy at the scene looked like my oldest nephew 10-15 years from now, and before I got a conversation going to find out if it was him, I woke up startled at my totaled car with a lot of belongings destroyed.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Tweets of my new eyeglass prescription

Wiki Eyeglass prescription

Wiki New Terms Of Use

Power of your reading glasses approximately calculator based on age

Damn! Every year I get older from 40, I need stronger $6 reading glasses from the dollar store!


Age & Mag: 41 = 0.25; 42 = 0.50; 43 = 0.75; 44 = 1.00; 45 = 1.25; 46-50 = 1.50; 51-52 = 1.75; 53-55 = 2.00; 56-60 = 2.25; 61+ = 2.50


My prescription says ADD +1.75 and Spherical +0.50; & Cylindrical +0.75 at 40 degrees Right Eye & +1.00 at 160 degrees Left Eye


I can't see much of anything but blur more than 4 feet out with these reading glasses. They're meant to read things at less than 2' out.


My $6 cheapie reading glasses won't let me read as close up, but I can still focus on my computer monitor (2') & TV (8') quite well.


I have gone from 1.25 to 1.50 to now 1.75 with the reading glasses over the last few years. Yes, my eyes ARE getting way worse by the month!


Without glasses, the computer screen is a complete blur but the TV is fine.


The distance of blurriness without glasses keeps extending. It started with a foot or less, then 18" or less, now it's gotta be 2' or less.