One more way to justify getting the surgery

There are 8760 hours in a year.

Of those 8760 hours, I will spend 3285 of them sleeping (I really like sleeping, and this count probably understates the total)

Of the remaining 5475 hours, I will spend ~2300 of them working or commuting to work (9.5 hours per day including commute is a conservative estimate)

Of the remaining 3175 hours, I will spend probably 730 of them cooking or eating

There are 2445 hours left. Some of those will be spent washing, cleaning, or doing chores.

• This year, I spent probably 100 hours in enormous wraparound safety glasses at robotics competitions.
• Assuming 30km/h (3600km), I spent ~120 hours on my bike
• Assuming 60km/h (10000km), I spent ~166 hours driving my car
• Assuming a half-hour per day of non-bike exercise, I spent 180 hours running, rowing, or swimming
• I spent 168 hours in the dominican republic trying to squint and find my friends or trying to fit my sunglasses over my normal glasses, or worrying that they'd get kicked or stepped on while I was swimming.
• I spent 15 or so hours actually competing in triathlons
• I spent 7 hours competing in citychases

So nearly a third of the free-time hours I had this year were spent doing activities that would be improved without corrective lenses. This seems to be the strongest argument for attempting to become correction-free. Hopefully it works out.