08-25-2018, 08:35 AM | #32401 |
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My phone's battery decided to start dying yesterday. It went from 80% to 3%. When charging it charged to 25% then it went to 61% in 5 minutes and another 5 minutes it was fully charged.
Just now it went from around 90% to shut down. The phone's almost 4 years old, so I've decided against replacing the battery and get a new phone. Normally it wouldn't be a problem to be without my phone for a couple of days. But tomorrow I'm going away for a couple of days. But luckily a local store got the phone in stock and they're open longer than our store today. So after work I'm going to pick it up. Sent from my PLK-L01 using Tapatalk |
08-26-2018, 06:53 PM | #32402 |
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The issue is they make no attempts to deliver whatsoever. I will be home but they still dump packages outside 3 blocks away. No attempt to contact me at all or show up at my building.
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08-26-2018, 07:56 PM | #32403 |
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I was thinking you might be able to have your package sent to the home of a friend or relative, instead of to your home. Maybe you have a friend or family member who is home in the daytime?
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08-26-2018, 08:18 PM | #32404 |
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There's a lot to said for shopping in bricks and mortar shops.
Since when did (Glad) cling wrap stop sticking to melamine bowls? Still works on glass, ceramics, and high density polyethylene; but it falls off melamine. Has that always been so? When Dupont released its cling wrap products I was working as a lowly lab assistant (glassware washer-uperer) in a competitor's polymer research centre. There was a lot of pressure from on high to come up with a similar product - I don't think they ever did. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 08-26-2018 at 11:34 PM. Reason: typo |
08-28-2018, 08:24 AM | #32405 | ||
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I made sure to get copies so I can order online and save money when I can budget new glasses in. Sent from my Nexus 7 |
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08-28-2018, 09:56 AM | #32406 |
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I need reading glasses, but the cheap ones ($3 a pop) are fine for my use. Have you tried them? If your intermediate glasses correct for other things as well as distance, such as astigmatism, you could always get a pair of tiny rimless readers ones and wear them underneath your other pair when you're reading. Home-made bifocals, essentially.
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08-28-2018, 10:51 AM | #32407 |
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Oh, I hate that. I live in a very small but single-family house and you'd think they'd have no problem delivering to me but the street numbers aren't exactly consecutive because New Orleans. They have occasionally messed up and this causes issues because I much prefer shopping online and get a lot through Amazon.
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08-28-2018, 10:55 AM | #32408 | |
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I usually take my glasses off for any dedicated reading. I hold reading material about 11-12 inches from my face to read clearly. My eyes don't track together well unless I am looking straight ahead, so trying to read while looking down through the reading portion at the bottom of the trifocals is not comfortable for extended periods of reading. |
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08-28-2018, 10:58 AM | #32409 | |
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08-28-2018, 10:59 AM | #32410 | |
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I'll try again when I get the new intermediate ones. My current distance glasses is -6.50 total power so I can't see anything really unless it's 15 to 20 feet away. Sent from my Nexus 7 |
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08-28-2018, 02:50 PM | #32411 |
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I recommend ZenniOptical.com I get their $7 frames, and can get a single distance pair of glasses for $25. Plus $5 for shipping, so I usually order another pair to make it worth while. I have distance+computer in bifocals (~$100), also single length computer length, and single length reading. The distance+computer is my every day wear - works for driving, etc.
Once my preferred local kind of graduated tri-focals got to $500, I said heck with buying local, and I gave up on the graduated and the tri-focal too. I haven't missed it. |
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08-28-2018, 05:24 PM | #32413 | |
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08-28-2018, 06:07 PM | #32414 | |
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08-28-2018, 06:20 PM | #32415 |
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Before Lasik, one eye was -7.5 and the other was -7.25. In other words, without my glasses, I was blind as a bat. But I could thread a needle without my glasses on when I was 48. Then I got Lasik. It got rid of my astigmatism, and now my eyes are -1.5 and +2.0. I can watch movies/television and do most reading without glasses. For newspapers, knitting and menus, reading glasses work fine. The last time I went to an optometrist, he wanted to correct both eyes. But that would mean I would have to wear glasses all the time. It takes a day or so for your brain to realize that one eye is for close up and one eye is for distance.
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