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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>As Wim said, give your old glasses to the Loins Club International;
your local optician can probably take them for you on their behalf. The
Lions Club is a great organization, if ya’ll are not too busy working on
pianos, look up one of the local clubs. It is very rewarding organization
to join and get involved with.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>Garret <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Willem
Blees<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 18, 2008 1:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> rrg@unlv.nevada.edu; pianotech@ptg.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: A new vision <OT><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Rob<br>
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My son and daughter in law have had lasik surgery, and love it. His boss,
unfortunately, had a very bad experiment, and has never been able to see right.
But that was 15 years ago. I am sure they've perfected the surgery.<br>
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As far as what to do with your glasses. the Lions Club used to take used
glasses and give them to those who can't afford new ones. I don't know if they
still do that, however, but it might be worth looking into. Other wise, maybe
you can paint them black, and stand on a street corner with a tin cup. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Wim<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Rob & Helen Goodale <rrg@unlv.nevada.edu><br>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org><br>
Sent: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 6:13 am<br>
Subject: A new vision <OT><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Well
I finally decided to do it. After 20 years of wearing glasses I'm getting
LASIK surgery on my eyes. Yesterday I went in for the complete pre-op
exam and today at 11:00 I have the actual procedure. They tell me
that the time in the chair is 10 minutes total but the actual
physical work is only about one minute per eye. Pretty amazing
stuff. It's all done with what they call a "cool laser".
They completely numb your eyes with some drops and you don't feel a thing.
About six hours of blurry vision, and by the next day you see better then you
ever actually did with the glasses.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Well,
I'll let you know how it all comes out. In the meantime I'm trying to
think of a ceremonial way to dispose of the glasses. Maybe I'll drop a
piano on them. I've already repaired them multiple times with CA glue.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Rob
Goodale, RPT<br>
Las Vegas, NV</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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