Day 254, Resistance is useless

Bits wearing out.  That's the general impression of ageing.

Or in the parlance of an engine rebore, or of the department store comedy of the 1970s, perhaps they are wearing in.  If so then in this case it is not desirable.

Being able to see stuff far away was the first loss.  Ok, so wearing specs isn't such a big deal and like magic everything suddenly becomes crisp again - oh look, those things are actually leaves, amazing.

Then the close up stuff goes.  This is where you discover that the world doesn't give a monkeys about people that can't read small writing.  It helps out that manufacturers generally aren't interested in you seeing what crazy things they put in foodstuff, and so they make claims about it having to fit on the packaging.  Well I say hooey.

Worse though is that virtually anything you might do for enjoyment or relaxation at some time requires you to be able to see small stuff.  Sewing, reading, arranging toothpicks in to a recreation of the Mary Celeste, re-enactments of the Nuremberg trials using ants (I'm not judging you, you chose your hobby, who am I to say it's weird), all of these things require good close-vision.

And the above limitation on the eye muscles that are used to focus is what has held up my attempt to solder some components onto a circuit board.  It's possible to get close enough to see the components exist in the same postcode, but when trying to get close enough to attach them they become a blurry mass.

The magnifiers are in the post.

Harrumph.

We can't hold back these changes, resistance is useless.

Here's a Vogon to force home the point.

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