It's funny that the only reason I went with ZenniOptical not because it was cheap, but because Eyeconic had screwed up my order. When they screwed up my order I ranted about it and figured someone in the chain screwed up. Eye Doctor, Doctor's receiptionist, Eyeconic's agent who called the Eye Doctor for prescription, middle men in between and then lab. They are expensive glasses!

Since I have no transparency, I decided to go and buy a kit to measure my eye sight to figure out if the parameters my doctor gav...

Couple of months ago I was inspired by a post called "Making my own glasses" (https://www.eidel.io/2019/04/24/making-my-own-glasses/) where the author goes to different optometrists to get different measurements of his eyes for medical certification for a pilot license. In the end, he buys a set of trial lenses and trial frames to measure the best parameters for eye glasses and he buys one.

I decided to buy trail lenses and a frame too. My motivation stemmed from the left lens on my new eyeglasses seeming to...

Instead of going to an Eye Doctor to prescribe me lenses' parameters I decided to go about it on my own in 2019. It was successful since I am still wearing the 2 sets of eyeglasses I ordered at that time. The second test aimed to lower the parameters while maintaining clear eyesight at different distances since that was the goal of self prescribing.

I did a second self eye test with some helpful reminders/tips from youtube videos and some remembering. I included these tips as note entries in my note taking a...