Last night just before going to bed, I took off my glasses and tried to clean them with my shirt, only to have the rim on the left side break.

Unfortunately my last pair of glasses was already broken (I think one of the kids stepped on them, if I remember correctly). That left me with the glasses I wore more than ten years ago, which are really scratched up and two or three presciptions old. In other words, they aren’t good substitute glasses. I had no choice but miss a day of work today in order to get an appointment for a new prescription. I decided to try contacts again. I’m tired of having to clean my glasses all the time, and shoving them up my nose all the time, too. Right now I have some Accuvue Advanced contacts with correction for astigmatism and I will wear them for a week to try them out. If they don’t work out well, then my next choice is to get gas permeable contacts, which are harder to get used to but provide the best quality vision in a contact lens. We’ll see.