Old People Working Here

A couple of years ago, I received my first pair of transitional lenses, aka bifocals. I first noticed the deterioration of my near vision because when I sat down in the evening to read my Bible, the letters were fuzzy and I ended up taking off my glasses and holding the book up close to my nose. Cindy got a real kick out of that.

I was recently fitted for a new pair of transitional lenses, and trust me, these are more "transitional" than the first pair. I'm beginning to notice many things that most of us take for granted like reading labels in the grocery store, and I've also learned that the term "transitional" applies more to my age than my lenses. That last point is demonstrated by the following episode from the workplace.

Friday of last week I was testing some software on one of the test PCs that we have for our project team. Since my previous visit to that PC, someone (likely 20 years younger) had changed the display settings from 1024x768 pixels to 1280x800 pixels (really tiny characters). I suppose that I complained loudly enough for all in the next county to hear, because when I arrived at work on Monday, I found the following sign posted on the PC in question:


Just double-click the image to get the full effect. I love my co-workers. I really do...