a decent turnout

[kareina]

We had seven of us for Frostheim's craft night tonight. Not quite all at the same time though--V. arrived early and left early. S. came a bit later, but also didn't stay long, and J., a totally new guy, arrived during the last 45 minutes we were there. However, I am glad I did, since O. had asked me to bring in my armour and swords and stuff to show him, and he sounds keen to try fighter practice on Sunday. Also, since the armour was there O. spent the evening trying stuff on and thinking about what he will want to do differently when he builds his own, so it was worth the effort of bringing all the stuff.

L. had finished the nålbinding project she started last week (her first, ever), and was ready to be shown how to start a project again. She is one of the students in the group who is also in my department, and trying to decide what she wants to do for her Master's project, so I shared some ideas of projects she could do with the laser. My apprentice, E. is the other, and she is also considering laser-based projects for her Master's, if she doesn't go with a geophysics project. It will be interesting to see what they wind up choosing.

My other apprentice, A. finished a project tonight--a lovely blue wool triangle cloak for which she has tablet woven a maroon and grey edging. I quite like how it came out. I have made progress on my glasses case--the strap is nearly completely attached now, only 12 cm of seam left to do on it, but now it is finally wearable. I made the strap for this one a good bit longer than the last, so it rides down by my hip, instead of my waist, which means that I don't have to remember to take it off when I put on my coat, which will make life much easier. It will also be nice to always have all four pairs of glasses in reach, so I can just grab the pair I need for any given task, and not try to use the wrong ones because I couldn't be bothered walking all the way to my backpack.

Last night's snow actually stuck in a few, isolated, spots, which meant that tiny pockets of the world were fresh and white this morning (if only about 1 mm thick), but, of course, it didn't last, and by the middle of the day it was +5 C. Even so, there is still a fair bit of snow out on the field, even if it is mostly gone in the forest and up by the house. I need to remember to take a photo of the yard tomorrow to compare with the ones I took last year and the year before on that date.

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[hrj.livejournal.com]

Someone with more pairs of glasses than me! (I have three everyday pairs, though one is bifocal, so that might count as four.)

[kareina.livejournal.com]

If we get to count multipel prescriptions in a single pair, then you can count mine as more than six pairs, since the computer glasses have one prescription straight forward (looking at the screen), and another for looking down (reading), and the sewing glasses are progressive lenses that gradually shift from across the room to reading lenses, so I need to be careful how high or low I lift my eyes in order to find the right position. I do NOT wear that pair down the stairs!

But, in hindsight, I could have made do without the computer glasses by going straight to the sewing glasses--the work ok for the computer. But since I have the computer glasses, I use them, they are, in fact, better for this use than the sewing glasses, even if they are useless for across the room.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

I discovered somewhat by accident that I need different computer glasses for work (desktop with screen approximately 30 inches away) and laptop (approximately 20 inches away). And when I updated the desktop prescription -- the one that I sometimes left work wearing because they're also ok for fuzzy middle distance -- I put them into the car's glove compartment as emergency backup driving glasses, because they're fine for driving (although not so good for reading street signs).

I tried progressives when I first needed multiple lenses and found that they were equally inadequate for every activity.

[kareina.livejournal.com]

Wow, I can't imagine driving in my computer glasses. I don't even like walking to the toilet with them.

The progressives are fine for sitting and sewing in a meeting or while chatting with friends, as I have time to tilt my head till I find the angle needed to see, but I don't like to stand up and move around in them.