My eyesight has gotten to the point where if I put my TV glasses on, they are to strong, if I take them off, it's blurry, only thing that works is have the monitor at a distance just so, but then I have a 40" LED up in my face.

Only thing to do is get bifocals, bad eyesight sucks.

Welcome!  I started wearing those cheap ones you can buy for a few pounds ladt year, but they ended up giving me a headache.  So I went to have my eyes tested, and at the grand old age of 45 I now have a pair of readers that are 'balanced' for each eye.  I don't need them in the morning, but by midday out they come. 

Everything is nice and crisp and I don't mind them, except for the invevitable headphone/glasses argument.   At that point I end up making a spectacle of myself.

Maybe I'll just go with the beer and the hell with the glasses ..won't need 'em anyway after a few pints...

I have 2 pair. 

1.5 and 2.5 and I usually have one hanging around my neck and the other in my pocket. 

I can function well in daylight without the need for any glasses.  But to read or to work efficiently, I must have the 1.5's to see close up. 
Some of the circuit boards I work on daily have very small terminals and the writing on the PCB is so freaking tiny... only the 2.5's let me get down to the board font size clearly. And they are also a must for reading things on the phone screen too. 

Night time is the worst. Everything is out of focus slightly. I have even used the 1.5 readers to drive from time to time. 

 Guitarhacker it sounds like it may be time for a pair of perscriptions. I am on my second pair. My glasses take a beating. I can see distance perfectly but I have trouble reading without them. I keep em on all the time anyways unless I'm watching TV like Kenneth. I went with a transitional lense. The only problem I have with these is when I play piano I need to look up at the music and looking up with a transitional lense is blurry because you are supposed to look down through them for magnification.

 If I had reading glasses I'm sure I would eventually sit on them in my back pocket or they would be put somewhere and forgotten so I went with the no brainer solution for a no brainer....

Hi,
 
I have two prescriptions ... one for driving/distance and the other for computer/reading, although most of the reading I do is without glasses, as it has a funny way of getting between "me and the point" ... that is my childish way of saying that glasses have nothing to do with my getting into the story and the work, to the point where "glasses" or "eyes" are not important, or an issue ... when you "see" it, the rest is easy!
 
I don't do "reading" glasses, because they distort things for me, really bad ...
  
I've often wondered if this is one of the reasons why I never learned music better ... I can not see the keys well enough to identify them, not to mention that after the 3 right eye surgeries my hands are always on top of each other, and I want to learn music by feel and sound ... and there are no instructors out there ... that can help me ... that I can find ... and some fine folks at the Coffee House ... they are the sukkyaki in that respect and then some!
 
It's the same thing for me on the bass ... I can not see the exact position of my fret fingers, and am relegated to having to learn it by feel and by sound ... and this is really hard, for many instructors and folks that I have had lessons from ... but one instructor did say that I had a really good feel for detail, and I always closed out the songs, or phrases, really well ... hehehe ... no way a guitarist is going to out shine my feel ... !!!!

 You don't seem to need reading glasses unless I misunderstand.
 
I have seen people who I can't name use two pairs together at the same time. I have only ever done that with socks or maybe I'm thinking about Mccue. Apparently it works but what do I know?

They do make bifocal contacts...but they suck.. reading glasses are better...

I finally got a pair of bifocal contacts that work well for me.  It took a lot of trial fittings and tweaking until they were the right power.  I lose just a little bit of distance sight, but my distance was so good that I really barely notice.  I was probably the worst patient ever when it came to learning to put the stupid things in my eyes, but now that I have been wearing them for a couple of years, it's become pretty easy.

The biggest benefit has been wearing them when playing sports, running, looking through the lens of a camera and generally in any situation where sweat comes into play.  I have a pair of prescription reading, no lines, glasses as well.  They are sharper for reading and seeing really small objects, but mowing the lawn with them on and sweating all over them was really driving me crazy here with these scorching summers.  

I can't imagine wearing bifocal contacts while playing sports!  I just have this idea that you'll be watching a bouncing ball coming towards you alternating between being very large and being smaller!  I have enough problems fielding grounders when they aren't changing apperance on their way out to you...  LOL!

Well, I am not sure that they are called "bifocal", but they are contacts for reading.  My distance is 20/20.  The contacts don't have a line in them like glasses.  I basically can see close up at the same time that I see distance.  There is no transition at all.  The closest analogy that I can think of is that it is like having corrective surgery.  It's the closest thing that I have used to natural eye sight.  I'm too big of a whimp for corrective surgery.