Day 1

A Day with Glass

Armed with new Rx lenses, it was time to try more-or-less a full day with Glass. So without further ado, here's a digital diary of a Sunday.



First off, a shower, but since Glass isn't waterproof, you'll have to make do with the coffee-making shot.  Paddy helps out, of course.

 

After getting my hot cuppa Joe, I settled in for the morning, e-mail, news, and online comics.

 

Then there was my least favorite activity...

 

Followed by my second least favorite activity...

 

And then we're away... over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go.  Actually, it's back out of the garage, up the Interstate to Mom's apartment.  

 

  The Valentine's Day door decorations were delivered...

 

 and then we had a pleasant time eating lunch in the dining room.

 

Afterwards, we checked out the fitness room and Gert tried out all the stationary cycles.  None were well-suited to her, so we'll be investing in one of her own.  

After that we wandered out onto the patio, where it was a balmy 62°.  Gert is interested in starting her summer tan and getting ready for swimming.  

Here are the flowers in her room (thanks, Susan!), just as an experiment with quasi-closeups with Glass.  It's always a little iffy getting things framed properly, but with the new prescription frame it's much easier.  

Heading back home, we ran a couple errands, stopping in at Office Max (no one noticed my Glass) and Walmart (ditto), where I bought some clip on sunglasses for Glass.  Although the Polaroid lenses were the right size and shape, the clip on the bridge was too low.  Tomorrow I'll try a style #14 and see if that works.  Otherwise, the NM sun may frustrate my outdoor use of Glass. 

Once we got home, the day was so lovely, Caro and I dusted off the bikes for the first ride of the season and hit the road.  Here I'm cruising down Candelaria to make the connection between the much lower-traffic Indian Farm Lane and San Isidro St. 

 We rode all the way to the Flying Star north of Griegos and came back via the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church cutoff, which avoids quite a bit of travel on a busy street. 

 Once back home, it was time for cat herding, watering plants and basically wrapping up the day.  Here's the view of the Bougainvillea in the greenhouse.  

While waiting for this evening's quiche to bake, we had a salad of a small wedge of iceberg lettuce, thin slices of zucchini, radishes, tomato, and avocado. 

The Olympics went well with our gluten-free bacon and Swiss quiche.  A little white wine and all was right with the world.

All in all, it was an entirely successful day with Glass.  Ergonomically, if I pay attention to the arrangement of hearing aids and Glass over my ears, they are perfectly easy to wear for 6 hours straight without discomfort.  The battery held up well with the level of photo-documentation that I did.  It registered about 44% after the bike ride, which meant it had been running about 6 hours, although I didn't do much browsing or other screen-intensive activities.

Tomorrow I'll take the prescription Glass to work and see how it goes.  Stay tuna'ed.