oh good, it's not my eyesight going, it's that i bought 40 watt lightbulbs instead of the usual 100W. this explains a lot about my having to squint. this is the latest in a series of grocery incidents where i would spend twenty minutes in front of a shelf reading labels and carefully making up my mind, then proceed to put the wrong item into my basket. i have now bought peach preserves when i wanted marmalade, strawberry jam when i desired raspberry, milk instead of dark chocolate bahlsens, and now these lightbulbs. and just today i stood in front of my mailbox for ten minutes because while i could see that it was bursting with junk mail i couldn't remember the lock combination. i must be getting old.