Bug Unit

My glasses are sitting comfortably on my face. This wasn’t easy. It started off on Sunday with a cool stroll down to the “next door” B&Q (The Servi-star of the UK) and browsed around the glue section. I was dead set on taking home some sort of super glue and had narrowed down my choice to about three different types. Then I made the mistake of asking for advice from one of the happy helpers. Happy helper number 1, said that I would be better off with an Epoxy equivalent… strong hold, but not as definite and “static” as the super glues that I was interested in. We talked glue for a few minutes. We discussed melting plastics. The glue talk got intimate.

£4 later, I walked out with a strong hold Epoxy glue, and ran back home to get the gluing session going. I stacked books, and made some sort of clamping mechanism to hold the broken glasses in, preparing for the long 12 hour setting procedure that the glue required. The glue was mixed, added in the key areas whilst the glasses were clamped in for their journey of joining. I left the structure until the next morning… it would be then that I would discover whether it was a success or not.

Success… well, at least I thought it was. Two hours into work the glasses had ulterior motives. I pleaded with them… I asked them to stay on my face, to assist my blurry eyes, to make me the geek that I need to be. They retaliated. The joining was not what they wanted… they wanted time apart… the lenses parted ways, and I was left with nothing but restricted vision. The bastards.

Spent the last two days thinking about things… Wondering why it happened to me. Why did the frames decide to crack and break on that fateful day, and why I am now being punished for my acts of negligence. I pondered solutions, solutions to the joining of the frames, the conglomeration of the lenses… the eternal bond that would leave me happy. Whilst the eternal bond didn’t exist, Jen and I both attended a web usability talk last night. Well, she was supposed to be going for VisitScotland.com, and I ended up just going along for the geek talk. It was also being hosted at Microsoft’s premises here in Edinburgh, so who can forfeit an opportunity to get into the belly of the beast and stab it with a spoon. The talk was interesting, and was basically a case study of the NewZealand.com website and the problems they encountered in making a workable solution for a tourism site like that. There was some bullshit involved. We dodged it. Kept on moving.

It finished around 9pm. We got free beers during it, and because I didn’t have a spoon, on the way out I stole a peppermint off some ’suits’ desk. It tasted yucky so I spat it out. Take that Microsoft!

This morning I troddled on back down to B&Q and bought the superglue that I was eyeing out on Sunday. I got to work and glued the frames. The lenses are now happily married. I’m hoping there isn’t some newly wed fight during today. One day with glasses will be like a frost eagle in a blizzard. Cold and windy, but perfectly suited for the environment.