The season of giving is upon us (at least that's what the fully-decked out Christmas tree displays at Target seem to be telling me).

I'm working on a video montage for a contest to get some free glasses to distribute to those in need -- and to help spread the word that no one needs to spend hundreds on eyeglasses. If you've gotten glasses from 39DollarGlasses and would like to help, please forward your photos to me at 39DollarGlassesVideo@webloggist.com.

If you're Flickr-literate, you can add them to the "GlassyEyes" Flickr group, forward me the link, and kill two birds with one stone.

Creativity (and QUANTITY) is appreciated!

If you're lucky, you might even get to hear a bit of my beginner guitar stylings -- gotta figure out a way to write-off some of that amp before the end of the year. ;-)

Thanks all.

T-Rave is an energetic (to say the least!), blogger, vlogger and Multi-media engineer. He spoke about his new glasses (from Optical4Less) and the GlassyEyes site in his most recent "Monday Madness" post.

I bring this up for a number of reasons:

1. It's cool to see someone so excited -- it's infectious.


2. I own two pair of that frame -- one of them very dark sunglasses


3. O4L was out of stock on them but happily that is no longer the case


4. He sent me an email at a time I was looking to write a quick post ;-)

Take a look at the video here. He lays out the information at the 4:11 mark -- but by all means give the rest a look.

Thanks T-Rave, I hope they work out for you.

P.S. I've mentioned this before, but just a note: The glasses pictured are the P113, and they can be found on the "Plastic Eyewears" page, about halfway down.

It had been awhile since I'd seen a pair of glasses that I needed to have -- and then Albert sent me a link.

The link was to a pair of glasses that had almost nothing in common with the other 16 pairs in my collection. It had also been awhile since I'd placed an order with Optical 4 Less.

I ordered the second pair, because you can never have too many pairs of sunglasses (and you waive the shipping fees, so they're heavily discounted).

The sunglasses frames are more substantial than the glow-in-the-dark frames, but well, they don't glow. I'm used to having a metal insert in the temple and was surprised not to see one in the glow-in-the-dark rimless, but I think it's by design. Sure it costs less to make, but the flexibility rivals my titanium hingeless pair.

The lenses on both pairs are absolutely perfect in every way. I'm thrilled with the both of them.

Sorry for the video -- it's crazappy, and the glasses really do glow like crazy..

OK, they arrived about a week ago, but things have been hectic -- living in St. Paul, we've been dodging stormtroopers with tear gas and rubber bullets just walking about the town.

Also, someone switched off summer and we went from 90s last weekend to low 70s this week. I like it hot and this isn't cutting it for swimming. Forced indoors, I hit the pool at the Y on Saturday, and gave my new goggles a work out.

I ordered the Hilco Prescription Swimming Goggles for $30.95.

They performed admirably. I'm really thrilled with these. It's great to be able to see so clearly under water -- better than I ever have.

If you've been on the fence with these. Take a look at the video, read the first post again and order up.

My apologies for the 3-day shadow (and note to self, buy some blades).



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