Well, maybe it’s time to get a new pair of glasses
These glasses (and the lens prescription) are approximately as old as Silas is, and I’ve been sticking with them stubbornly for quite a while even though my eyes are getting older as I speak. But the day before yesterday they decided to make the need for new glasses a little bit more urgent by having the solder joint on the left side of the bridge fail (not far enough so that the glasses fell into two pieces, but enough so that the bridge was hinged on a piece of solder.
Ugh.
Fortunately I had some steel-filled epoxy in the basement and was able to put a fillet around the offending failed joint, but I’m still going to need to go to the eye clinic for a new eye exam and a new pair of glasses or two.