Advancing age; books

I have reached a milestone: my eyes have stopped getting more short-sighted (in fact this happened a while ago; my prescription's been fairly stable for a few years now) and started getting less short-sighted. Or, in fact, more long-sighted. I am given to understand that at some point this will mean I need reading glasses whilst simultaneously not actually getting me to the point where I don't need glasses for distance vision (my sight is fairly bad so that would take quite a lot), but happily I am not there just yet.

I celebrated this by dropping a larger sum of money than I intended to on *two* pairs of glasses: one with light-reactive lenses, and one without because I'm not sure I wholly trust the light-reactive thing. But prescription sunglasses are a PITA with all the putting on/taking off, so I hope it will be worth it.

ION, I sold a story to The Future Fire! It will be out sometime next year, possibly February. And I got a good review for the novel; and although the people who published my novella decided to stop publishing things, they've handed back the rights and given me all the files so I can self-publish with absolute minimum hassle. So that could be worse.