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#1 ·
So I found this in the INFP section and thought it would be useful for my fellow INTJS. Courtesy of Nova.

Take issue with something going on in society?

Having a bad day?

Have something on your mind that wont go away?

Experience something so fabulous you just have to express it?


Post your vent here!



+ And a friendly reminder to please be respectful to other members and leave your baggage at the door.
 
#9,961 ·
I'm a little past halfway through A Game of Thrones and I think I may officially need glasses. I shouldn't have bought the cheap version with the tiny font. I keep having to pause and take a cat nap just so my eyes can readjust. :|
Kindle.

It has adjustable font size, I get to put off glasses for another year or so.
At least until I real and truly get sick of misjudging things at a distance all the damn time.
 
#9,963 ·
Kindle.

It has adjustable font size, I get to put off glasses for another year or so.
At least until I real and truly get sick of misjudging things at a distance all the damn time.

I went with free audio book.
It makes me want to pull out puppets or something.

The bad side is, the read-aloud pace is considerably slower than my mental reading pace... but I'm not ready to cough up the money for an kindle/iPad to make up for it.

I still can't see right either.

Does anyone else get this weird muscle memory effect when they read (or play video games) for long periods: my eyes keep moving as if they were scanning a page (or the screen) and everything stays focused to book or screen distance for around five minutes after tossing the book aside/quitting the game?
 
#9,964 · (Edited)
The bad side is, the read-aloud pace is considerably slower than my mental reading pace... but I'm not ready to cough up the money for an kindle/iPad to make up for it.
Yeah, I find that with audio books too. Although it is useful in the sense that you can close your eyes and just let your imagination take over (and your eyes rest!).

Also, I wouldn't recommend an LCD screen to read on for long periods of time. An eBook reader is cheaper and E-Ink is much easier on the eyes.

Does anyone else get this weird muscle memory effect when they read (or play video games) for long periods: my eyes keep moving as if they were scanning a page (or the screen) and everything stays focused to book or screen distance for around five minutes after tossing the book aside/quitting the game?
Not quite what you're describing, but I do stare at a screen most of the day so I know the kind of thing you mean.

Two things I find helpful, if you don't know them already:
1. Every so often (say 30 minutes or so), find something distant to focus on (e.g. out of the window). This relaxes your eye muscles.

2. If you get that eye fatigue effect that you're getting now, close your eyes and tense all the muscles in your body that you can (including scrunching up your eyes as tightly as possible) for 5 secs or so. When you let go, all your muscles will relax, forcing your eye muscles to relax as well. You'll notice that vision will be blurry for a few seconds before returning to normal. I find it helpful to do this every so often.

Also, I like your new purple pink tree :)
 
#9,965 ·
Just hours ago my roommates apparently locked up and made a quick run to the pet shop a few blocks from here. They came back to the door standing wide open and a guy wandering down our driveway.

I was here alone. :sad: This is the second time someone's (randomly) tried to get in where I live, though at different addresses. Scary, scary, scary. :frustrating:
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#9,966 ·
Just hours ago my roommates apparently locked up and made a quick run to the pet shop a few blocks from here. They came back to the door standing wide open and a guy wandering down our driveway.

I was here alone. :sad: This is the second time someone's (randomly) tried to get in where I live, though at different addresses. Scary, scary, scary. :frustrating:
Can you get a dog?
 
#9,967 ·
Yeah, I find that with audio books too. Although it is useful in the sense that you can close your eyes and just let your imagination take over (and your eyes rest!).

Also, I wouldn't recommend an LCD screen to read on for long periods of time. An eBook reader is cheaper and E-Ink is much easier on the eyes.



Not quite what you're describing, but I do stare at a screen most of the day so I know the kind of thing you mean.

Two things I find helpful, if you don't know them already:
1. Every so often (say 30 minutes or so), find something distant to focus on (e.g. out of the window). This relaxes your eye muscles.

2. If you get that eye fatigue effect that you're getting now, close your eyes and tense all the muscles in your body that you can (including scrunching up your eyes as tightly as possible) for 5 secs or so. When you let go, all your muscles will relax, forcing your eye muscles to relax as well. You'll notice that vision will be blurry for a few seconds before returning to normal. I find it helpful to do this every so often.

Also, I like your new purple pink tree :)
I like the tress as well ; )

Are you allowed to go out of the house at all? Going outside more led to my eyesight getting better.
 
#9,968 ·
@Sela Having a gun might make me feel a bit safer, but I don't think it would actually make me safer. There are the logistics of having it on me when I needed it, naturally trending toward klutzy, being naive, and of course the little matter of the fact that I don't think I could shoot someone - maybe if they were attacking someone I loved, I might, but...

Can you get a dog?
We have a boxer, who usually barks and dances a very loud jig when a stranger is at the door. But either she was in the back yard at the time or I didn't hear her as I was downstairs.

At any rate, I'd prefer strangers just stay the fuck out of my home. XP
 
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#9,971 ·
I should not have clicked.

I think I'm somewhere in South America.

EDIT: Also, that's a lovely tree you've got there.
I ended up in the northern countryside of Sweden (which only has one airport in the whole country), and my sister ended up in Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, but got bored after she made it onto the highway.

I want to do it again....
 
#9,972 · (Edited)
I ended up in the northern countryside of Sweden (which only has one airport in the whole country), and my sister ended up in Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, but got bored after she made it onto the highway.

I want to do it again....
I'm on a highway going somewhere... aha! Found the airport sign!

Games like these are so addicting.
 
#9,978 ·
Just hours ago my roommates apparently locked up and made a quick run to the pet shop a few blocks from here. They came back to the door standing wide open and a guy wandering down our driveway.

I was here alone. :sad: This is the second time someone's (randomly) tried to get in where I live, though at different addresses. Scary, scary, scary. :frustrating:
Glad you are safe. You might try setting doors to default lock position or find a tactful way to review effective door locking procedure with roommates.
 
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