Updates: Spam, and Eyes

Good News: Less Spam

I wanted to mention that after several months of waves of email spam, my filter is suddenly catching the previous-normal amount again. I open Gmail and instead of having 100+ spam messages, there are 2, or 4, or 1. It's just as mysterious, but a lot less annoying. I mean, that's roughly three months of deluge and then it stops like a tap was turned off? Weird.

Even Better News: Eyes

I mentioned that I was trying a new brand of multifocal contact lenses--well, maybe not new, but newly available in the -11.50 and -10.50 that my eyes need--and that they looked (ha, punny) promising. And guess what, they are!

That is a year's supply of them. It seems like a huge stack to me, because I've always worn monthly lenses: I took them out every night, but wore the same pair for a month, which means a year's supply fit in one hand. These are daily-wear lenses, which means a lot of bigger boxes.

They're also much more expensive than the ones I wore before, like four or five times the cost. But with the old ones, I was cursing my vision and grabbing reading glasses many times every day, and with these, I'm not, which is a huge difference to my quality of life. I still need readers sometimes, for especially small print or in low lighting, but the difference is tremendous, and I'm grateful that this is an expense I can afford.

Party time! I can see!