I am up-graded! I am an advanced member of my genetic tree! I used to have an Elastoplast holding the leg of my glasses but…weeks ago I ripped off the plaster and upgraded to having electrician’s tape instead! However…Now…I have a glue-gun and I know how to use it!
I only need glasses for reading and I am a ‘cheap-skate’ (Apparantly from the old Scottish word ‘Skyte’ – excrement!) Anyhoo…I am environmentally programmed (see “Epigenics“) to always buy the cheapest I can…or ‘make do!’ with whatever I have (though it doesn’t always work 🙂 ) Therefore, I have new socks that seem to have been designed on a section of Scaffold Pole (e.g., no heels), have been made from plastic candyfloss and have annoying seams at the toes. So, it makes sense to me that I should buy the cheapest reading glasses, regardless of how they look and regardless of what they are made from! The reality is…however…that they don’t last long!!! I have six pairs of glasses and each of them are broken somewhere. My popular trick is sitting on them. This has a tendency to break a leg – just at the hinge.
I have six pairs but not all within reach and there are only three that I’ve seen recently and each has a broken leg, held by tape. But no more, because I have a glue-gun (around a fiver! Woohoo!) Well…I actually have two glue-guns because the first one broke (No, I didn’t sit on it – very funny!) The glue-gun plugs into the 13amp mains and uses about 10W to melt a glue-stick, which allows you to drip hot plastic over your carpet and soft furnishings. I’m like a feckin’ spider!
So, I can take ‘old’, ‘cheap’ shit and keep it alive for longer! Which is exactly what I’ve done with my recent upload of an old album, recorded in 1988/89, called ‘The Wave‘. I added a new cover and hey presto!…Different shit! The simple one on the left was the original cover of the 1989 Cassette version…the one in the middle was the 2006 online version and the one on the right is the 2020, new, improved, up-graded, ‘glue gun’ version. (Same tunes though!)
Just as a footnote…I’ve ordered new glasses from EBay…coming soon, or not! Possibly from China? Woohoo-han?
Jackson Greenhorn 