I do hate that photo. But in the present circumstances (wherein you wear them not by choice, but because of your watery fate), I will refrain from complaining.
Just make sure your new ones will work when you assertively remove them and say, "Mr. President, we have a situation."
You see? That's why I come here. That reminds me I need to make an appointment for my glasses (which are many, many years old). Thanks.
I sympathise, Mark! About a month ago, my featherweight progressive lenses (ultra-strong prescription, but thin lenses, trifocals but no one can tell, and the most attractive frames I've ever owned) fell into a give-away bag bound for Goodwill. I was wearing my prescription sunglasses at the time. I went back to Goodwill, but said bag was already on a truck bound for Headquarters. They took my info and sent out an e-mail, but I might as well have dropped them into a lake! One moral of the story, I suppose: always put contact info in your glasses case. Good thing my backup pair is a little more attractive than yours, because they won't be replaced any time soon.
I gotta make an eye appointment, too. But, as I know I'll need new lenses, I don't wanna be without my only set of specs so . . . I've been procrastinating.
I'm a pro at crastinating.
And, Mark, do we get a new pic of you with the new glasses? I hope you went with something cool & sorta 60's retro, like all the hipsters are doin' now! 
Umm, Mark, I'm going to need you to start blogging on the weekends, so if you could, ummm, come in this Saturday at, oh let's say 8 o'clock, that would be great, okay?
If you could give me your orange stapler, that would be greaaaaat.
Mark, I think you look great with a beard. Post a new photo with the beard!
Or, you could just post a photo of Philip Seymour Hoffman and calim to be an Oscar(R)-winning Catholic blogger.
Oh, and as for glasses, the featherweights are indeed great.
I have one word for you -- Lasik. It changes lives.
I see a lot of old bishops with those glasses too.
But I empathize. When I get a little further ahead on my finances, I gotta get some new ones. My current ones I refer to as my "goggles".
Happened to me last fall, at the lake. It was unseasonably warm and I went in for a dip to help pull the dock in for the winter. I left my glasses on and they came off in the water. My old ones were just like yours! Apparently they are called "aviator glasses". Folks at work say they're in style again: 80s retro.
Main problem is they weigh close to a pound and they slide down my nose while pushing it over my upper lip.
If you go further back into the 70s, you might even find some "cat's eye" glasses - these are like the kind that old schoolteachers used to wear and can be seen in Far Side cartoons.
Mark... did you get the memo about the TPS reports?
See, we're using the new cover sheet on all the TPS reports, so if you could go ahead and start using those new cover sheets... that would be great.
I'll send you another copy of that memo.
I'm going to burn down the building.
My huz keeps saying "Sunday" even after I've googled the line...
I have been getting contacts from 1-800 contacts for about 6 years (boy do I stretch out those disposables!) and only got new eyeglasses when the babies broke mine a few years ago. They were broken again this year, crazy glued the arm. No one can tell. Life on one income is fun, oh, boy.
Sometimes I wear a t-shirt that says "Pedro lacks political experience."
"Life on one income is fun, oh, boy."
Consider this, Peggy;
"Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance...thrift is poetic because it is creative..." - G.K. Chesterton
See? You're a poet.
My car positively oozes poetry, from the cracked windshield, to the "check engine" light that shines perpetually on my dashboard.
To return to the topic at hand, my *new* eyeglasses were no more than three days old before our *new* puppy chewed the ear piece all to heck and even managed to put a tooth mark on one lens. Being the kind of person that hates unnecessary trips and waiting and general inconvenience, I never took them in to be repaired. They work fine.
Thanks Tim!
Mark,
I was starting to wonder what had happened to you as the rest of stood around chatting in the parking lot. It's really too bad we didn't get a wet T-shirt shot for the blog!
Then again.......
Well, at least it was a nice sunny day! And Jan finally got her canoeing date.
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