A Walmart Vision Center.
When I was writing about my solar panel delivery to Home Depot, and ended up taking my whole blog, I didn't get a chance to talk about finding a "Vision Center" at the local Walmart.
I believe it was Barney, the old fat man, who suggested the Walmart vision center would be a good place to go, but I hadn't seen one in a Walmart in a long time, so I thought they didn't do that anymore..... But I was wrong!
Everything was going okay. They said they make lenses, it would take seven to ten days, and it would cost around $300, which I thought was very expensive. But when I whipped out my VA paper with my eyeglass prescription, I hit a snag.
The surgeon who performed my cataract surgery wrote my prescription for glasses. For some reason, probably an accident, or just being tired from doing a dozen or more cataract surgeries a day, she wrote down the date that she was signing the paper, then she accidentally wrote the same date under "when the prescription expires." Since the prescription is a legal document, it appears the prescription expired the same day she wrote it.
I never noticed the error, and even if I had, it probably wouldn't have meant anything to me, but according to the folks at the Walmart vision center, legally, they couldn't use the "expired" prescription. They spent an hour trying to get someone from the VA on the phone that could straighten this problem out, even though I had warned them that calling the VA is a waste of time... Been there, done that.
So it looks like the only way to solve this problem is to forget about my VA prescription and go to an optometrist for a new pair of glasses. The last time I did that, I was in Denver, and it cost over $800, so the thought of doing it again isn’t at the top of my list, but I'm not sure what else to do.
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Sunset at my boondocking spot.
Doing this allows you to install the most solar panels on your roof, but it looks scary to me, as if it could blow off at any minute.
These folks are boondocked as high as you can drive in this boondocking area. There's still a trail, but it's for off-road vehicles only.