@liw the glasses for seeing things in the distance are now too strong to look at things up close, so i take the glasses off to look at stuff and then forget where they are when i have to put them on to look at stuff, so then i got multi-focal lenses but it turns out nothing i want to look at with the glasses is ever quite at the right angle anyway so i'm constantly peering over the top or tilting my head funny.

@liw all of this adds up to "oh, this is the origin of all those scenes in a movie where an actor lets you know that a character is old by fiddling with glasses in an exaggerated way", except it turns out it's not really exaggerated, i just look like that now.

I understand now. I've been doing that for so I don't often mislay my glasses, I guess.

@liw all of the available evidence suggests that many people have better working memory for the location of objects than i do.

I mostly only keep my glasses on my head or on my desk, and only on a couple of specific places on the desk. This helps me trick people into thinking I remember where I put them.