Month: December 2021

Konquer Kovid in Klamath Kounty Kontest

A couple weeks ago while NFL football on a Sunday I saw a local commercial for something called Conquer Covid in Klamath. I know after places around the country and the world are offering prizes as inducement to get vaccinated against COVID-19, but didn’t realize they were doing it here too. So I signed both Donna and I up to be in the contest.

I have no idea when the contest started and there are weekly drawings for the “smaller” prizes and a Grand Prize of a new Dodge Ram or Durango at the end. We both were vaccinated back in March, so who knows how many weekly drawings we have missed out on. Unless of course the weekly drawing is for just those entered during that week, and in that case, we didn’t win a prize.

I guess there is always a chance on the grand prize or one of the 3 runner up prizes, a hot tub, a Disneyland family vacation and $3k. Of course who knows when the contest ends because, like the start date, there is no mention of it in the rules. If they are waiting until every one in the county gets a shot, they are never going to have to give away the “big” prizes, right now the county is at 55% for one dose and 49% fully vaccinated.

My favorite aspect of this contest is a little link at the bottom of the main page:

I’m not vaccinated and want to enter.

 

Everything Always Looks Better On The Website

Last Thursday’s post I showed pictures of the 5 frames from Warby Parker that I chose to try on at home. They showed up on Tuesday and now here are what they looked like on my face. Below are the Warby Parker images of the frames and when you hover over them you can see what they looked like on my face. I don’t know if it the lighting with me sitting in the desk chair with natural window light from the upper left or what, but almost all of the frames looked nothing like what they looked like on the web.

Dawson
Azure Crystal/Oak Barrel		 Durand
Striped Pacific		 Percey
Tidal Blue
Whalen
Lapis Crystal		 Yardley
Blue Marbled Tortoise		 Wilder
Squall Blue Fade

The last photo, Wilder in Squall Blue Fade, is a picture of what I’m wearing right now and they are nearly 6 years old. I’m using them because the ones I’ve been wearing for the last four years, a set of Lyle in Beach Glass, broke on Halloween evening.

Right now the leading contender for my next set of glasses is the first one, the Dawson, which has a different color on the front of the frame compared to the earpieces, but I’m now totally sold on them. As soon as this set of frames make it back to Warby I’ll get a second set sent out to me to try four more different frames and the Dawson again.

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Mid-Century Americana Edition of SORT
As of Monday, December 6, 2021 at 9:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1957 Ford Thunderbird 1957 GMC 150 4×4 1954 Chevy 150 Wagon

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to, if the reserve was not met.
Sports: 1994 Mazda MX-5 Miata Sold for $13,250 on 12/1/21
Off-Road: 1985 Toyota Pickup 4×4 Sold for $46,000 on 12/1/21
Touring: 1967 VW Panel Van Sold for $33,750 on 12/3/21

Eye See You Warby Parker

After a 2-1/2 year hiatus, we made appointments to get our eyes examined. Today was the day.

We got a recommendation from the nice lady at the bookstore and it was 2 doors down from our dentist, so we ended up at Basin Eyecare Center. Our appointments were an hour and a half apart because that is how long they allot for a comprehensive eye exam. Mine was scheduled first, but when we got there we asked to swap times because Donna takes longer to come down from the dilation procedure. Turns out, both doctors were in the house, so we both got in not too long after each other.

We were in and out in under 2 hours total and that included Donna picking out some frames from a catalog to have them get in for her. Me, I skipped that part of the process because I’m going the Warby Parker route again when it comes to the frames. My initial 5 pairs of Home Try-ons are in the image above. I’ve tried the Percey before, but it was in Crystal and no matter how much I like the idea of clear frames, they just don’t look good on my extremely pale complexion. I have high hopes for the Dawson because I like the idea of different color temple pieces, so we’ll see1.