What the Hail?

Spring trying to muscle its way into the Midwest always comes off as schizophrenic. Yesterday was a prime example: sunshine, pouring rain, sunshine, pouring, cycling through at least once or twice an hour, to a rousing climax of pea-sized hail in the afternoon, followed by more sunshine and rain. Now we're looking at temps in the 80s at the end of the week. I can just hear my garden basking and preening in satisfaction.

I'm sorry that I've been so grouchy lately. Days like yesterday, where Monday tries to outdo itself in sheer Mondaycity, does not help in the least.

( Newsflash: Mondays suck. Also, fire indeed hot. )

Oh, and also on the glasses front...I've spent way more time than is good for my sanity dinking around with several online glasses vendors (with many thanks to byrneout for providing that link so long ago), only to find that all those testimonials of "I got new glasses for $30!" doesn't apply to people with ridiculously defective vision like the Emperor and me.

I finally found a site that let me order a spare pair for him so we can send his current scratched-to-hell ones back. (A lot of the sites either don't carry kids' sizes or don't provide correction for eyes past +/- 7.5 or so.) I'm hoping that they'll work out well for him, as I'm gambling a lot of money on non-returnable merchandise. At that, they'll still be a ton cheaper than a second, non-insurance covered pair.

MONDAY: WHY SO DIFFICULT?