The first of the picture-framing stuff I ordered from Amazon came today. Remounted DW's diploma in the school frame. Properly this time.
Upshot - my landline is now transferred to magic jack and I'm saving money. I have bragging rights with DH over actually getting it done. And ladders are not my friend. LOL
Good! You chose mono lenses, right? Any second thoughts?Had my first full ophthalmologist eye exam since my cataract surgery (16 and 15 months ago).
Great report: lenses are perfectly placed in the capsules, pressure is good, no problems at all. No sign of secondary cataract development. Although that's always possible, it can be quickly and simply resolved by zapping it with a special laser.
Tested nearly 20/20 for distance vision (missed by one letter in one eye, two letters in the other).
Now at last I can completely stop worrying about it and just enjoy driving without glasses!
That's a pretty solid endorsement.None. The slight annoyance of finding the right pair of readers (reading distance, computer distance, etc.) is so trivial compared to the joy of mostly doing without glasses that I'm a totally happy camper.
I was a single homeowner till I got married when I was 38. I had to learn to do stuff. Plus I'm an engineer. I'm too cheap to hire people if it's something I can figure out.My wife would not know how to do all that phone wiring.
My brother does not do much home maintenance work. So, his wife who's a stay-at-home mom has learned to do things that normally fall to the man of the house. I was surprised to learn that SIL could change door locks, and even install new faucets, something that my wife would not know where to begin.
I have to say that an engineering degree does not mean much when it comes to practical matters. There are plenty of EE graduates, male and female, whose last time they held a soldering iron was in an electronic lab in school. Oh wait, some might never have held an iron, as they often use these breadboards in school labs. And then, many now just work with computer software, so they do not deal with "nuts and bolts" at all.I was a single homeowner till I got married when I was 38. I had to learn to do stuff. Plus I'm an engineer...
I have to say that an engineering degree does not mean much when it comes to practical matters. There are plenty of EE graduates, male and female, whose last time they held a soldering iron was in an electronic lab in school. Oh wait, some might never have held an iron, as they often use these breadboards in school labs. And then, many now just work with computer software, so they do not deal with "nuts and bolts" at all.
I'm tackling all the deferred projects. This morning's project (after a 3 mile walk with the dog) was to install the magic jack. I've had it for 4 months. Tried to get DH to install it but he never got around to it... so I decided to do it today.
Not complicated - except where our router is is not where our home phones all connect in to. Our old set up had the phone line coming from the phone company block on the side of the house - to a phone wire block on the garage wall - from there 3 hard wired extensions split off. I wanted to keep those extensions. So I needed to run the wire from the router, to this phone block in the garage. That involved fishing the wire through a soffet, then through attic crawl space in the garage.
No biggie - except I had to lean way into the attic space to fish the wire... and when I was backing back out - the ladder tilted out from under me... No broken bones but a few nice bruises where I scraped myself as I fell out of the attic (till I could catch myself on the edge and lower myself down. I'm sure I looked completely ridiculous.
It was fear I'd do something stupid that had me open the garage door before starting - so if I cracked my head open a neighbor might see me bleeding out and call 911. LOL. I always plan for the worst.
Upshot - my landline is now transferred to magic jack and I'm saving money. I have bragging rights with DH over actually getting it done. And ladders are not my friend. LOL
Of course an electronics tech has to know to solder, even if poorly.Not sure I had to solder at all when getting my BSEE. I started out getting an associates in electronics tech - and my soldering skills convinced me I'd rather be the one telling the tech what to solder, rather than soldering myself.
I have never had to solder on parts at work -though I have had to use the iron to remove part... much easier since you aren't worried about cold solder joints.
It is getting harder and harder to fix anything, and most chips now have a gazillion leads and require expensive machines to rework. And then, only the factory has the schematic and the design info to troubleshoot and locate the broken parts. And then the parts are impossible to get.