I MUST BE GETTING BLIND AS A BAT,

[hobbyfarm]

escavader,
If you watch CSI, you'll notice the team ALWAYS has a flashlight inspecting everything.

I like to backlight the dipstick by holding a light behind the stick and slowly rotating the stick. The oil always shows up.

 

[odleefs]

Alan,
Considered "seeing" your local optometrist for a thorough check of those eyes and vision with 'em? None of us are getting any younger /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Steve

 

[escavader]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Alan,
Considered "seeing" your local optometrist for a thorough check of those eyes and vision with 'em? None of us are getting any younger /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Steve )</font> <font color="blue"> </font>
IM a pine grader,in a planing mill on my day job.Could you believe i am checked by an outside inspection agency,often for what those eyes of mine see.I have never had a bad score.I can also look outside the mill 500 feet away,and see the girls coming to work in the office,and can identify them who they are and what their wearing. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
cant see oil well on a dipstick,cant read a tv screen,on the channel guide.cant see good driving at night in the rain.I think its those darn florecent lights i always work in front of.
ALAN

 

[CT_Tree_Guy]

Ah yes, the joy of watching yourself fall apart! About two years ago I was wiring up a 6-way trailer plug, the one with those teeny-weeny little letters "G, B, W, R, Y, AS" and I yelled over to my friend who has an adjoining shop to mine - "Hey Kurt, why do they make these d*** letters so #!*$& small???" Says he with a knowing grin, "Here, you might want to try these" and hands me his reading glasses. "Hmm, much better" says I. Comes the dawn, my auto-focus is on the fritz. I'm at 200 diopter and holding. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Oh, and the little black floaters. I'm driving home from dinner with the family about 6 months ago and slowly realize that I've got a little blind spot in my left eye that is the spittin' image of the outline of the state of Tennessee. Only about 2% of my entire field of vision, but an unsettling development nonetheless. After a week of gazing at the Volunteer State it's off to the eye doctor. "Yep, you've got what is called a "floater", says he. Something about my vitreous humor, but it didn't strike me as being at all funny. "Sometimes they go away, sometimes they don't". Great, and I'm paying good money for this. Well Tennessee is gone now thank god (not that I don't think it's great place), and I got the good news that my beyond arm's-length eyesight is 20-15, so that's a major plus.

This all reminds me of one of life's most important axioms - be thankful for what you've got, it could always be much, much worse. A longtime friend of our family, a retired Admiral who grew up on Lake Erie building and tinkering with steamboats, was instrumental in raising the Seventh Fleet from the bottom of Pearl Harbor, and who has spent his whole life working with machines and anything mechanical, is now completely blind. He wrote to us recently and said that he felt it was the worst fate that could befall a man - and this from a proud, courageous and stoic giant of a man.

So let's all count our blessings, eh? If I can put on my reading glasses and see things in razor-sharp detail, all is right with the world.

Regards, and keep looking on the sunny side, John D.

 

[odleefs]

<font color="#666666"> This all reminds me of one of life's most important axioms - be thankful for what you've got, it could always be much, much worse. A longtime friend of our family, a retired Admiral who grew up on Lake Erie building and tinkering with steamboats, was instrumental in raising the Seventh Fleet from the bottom of Pearl Harbor, and who has spent his whole life working with machines and anything mechanical, is now completely blind. He wrote to us recently and said that he felt it was the worst fate that could befall a man - and this from a proud, courageous and stoic giant of a man.
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Fact: The average person is more afraid of losing their eyesight than they are of dying!
That is a tragic tale, but with the aging of America, many people are going to unfortunately follow in this man's fate.
Good eyesight doesn't equal healthy eyes! Likewise, needing reading glasses as we get older usually isn't a disease or condition, but a natural consequence of aging...and the only alternative that we know of to not aging isn't a good one! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Steve