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These Four Things
My CPAP machine broke. In the middle of the night. I am freaking out about it. It’s 4:12 am and I won’t be able to get back to sleep, not just because the machine is broken, but because I’m freaking out about it.
I’m sitting here at my laptop taking deep breaths and trying not to panic about my broken CPAP machine, and thinking about all the things I simply can’t live without.
Top of the list would be my sight. I have two pairs of glasses: computer glasses/bifocals, and distance glasses/bifocals. I’ve had a hard time getting glasses to work for me, I’ve given up progressives for bifocals. They make me look very bookish… and… very old. And you know what? I don’t fucking care. Being able to see clearly is the most important thing in my life. Plus, I notice a lot of older actors wear bifocals, you can tell by the way the light reflects off their lenses. I just started noticing this in the last six months, when I made the move to bifocals exclusively. Richard Gere wears bifocals. When you’re out and about, I challenge you to look at old people, not really old, maybe just over 50, and check out how many people wear bifocals. A lot. It’s kind of sexy. Not really. But I’m choosing to frame it that way. Ha ha I said “frame it”.
Next would be my hands. I don’t know what I’d do without my hands. I’ve had this thing called trigger finger in my left middle finger for…
