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Another long day of programming today. We had to convert an entire site from ASP to PHP, and by we, I mean me, since I'm the only person in the office who knows any PHP. I'm starting to think I might need glasses. I've always been a little farsighted, and lately I've been noticing that a long stretch of concentrating on my computer screen leaves me exhausted, headachey and sore around and behind my eyes. Which is a weird sensation. Is that what eye strain feels like? I guess it must be eye strain.

I've always been a bit farsighted, and figured that eventually I was probably going to need reading glasses. As a kid I used to think glasses were cool, and I wanted to wear them, so I would read in the dark to try and "ruin my eyes" which is what my mother told me would happen. Here's a tip: it doesn't work. Kids, your mothers are wrong about reading in the dark! But they're probably right about dangling your arm out the car window (another car could chop it right off!) and running with a lollipop in your mouth (trip and you'll choke to death!). And they're definitely right about not sticking your finger in your ear. Trust me on that one.

So I guess I need to make an appointment with an optometrist. The good news is the variety of super fashionable glasses; the bad news is the expense of same. In the meantime I'm going to get one of those cooling eye mask thingies for the office. On a day like today, I really could have used it.