Facebook knows…

I had to take my Prius in today for an oil change.  There was a software update they wanted to do at the same time so I was stuck at the dealership for two hours.  I had just started reading The Cockroaches by Jo Nesbø so I wasn’t upset about having to sit around for a couple hours.  But at one point, I took a break to look at Facebook and decided to update my status to tell the world where I was...as if the world cares.  But this is how the rest of the conversation went:

From my aunt:  Did you get a recall notice?

Me:  Yes.  They are updating the software.  Otherwise, it’s the usual countenance.  Gives me a good chance to dead.

Me:  I mean maintenance.  I don’t know where countenance came from.

Me:  AND I meant READ.  Dead…what’s up width that??

Friend from Canada:  fb is in your puter correcting your spelling for you…LOL!

Me:  They took a lot of leeway with width.

Me:  Or maybe that’s the Olde English-speaking.

Me:  Wow!  This thing is out of control today.

Friend from Ohio:  This is hilarious!  At least it didn’t change Prius to Reince Priebus.

Me:  What?  Lol.

Friend from Canada:  Prius?  Wait for it…Pretence…fb is testing your patience and listening to you wine…er…whine.

From my aunt:  I have an appointment Wednesday to get my software updated.  I’m going to leave the car for the day because it’s almost time for my 25,000-mile checkup.

Me:  I’ve got almost 60,000 on mine and it’s still ticking beautifully.

Me:  I wine…er…whine a lot, Friend from Canada.  lol.

Friend from Canada:  fb knows.

I did get a couple of odd glances from other people in the waiting room when I chuckled audibly.  I imagine that Facebook knew that, too.  But I sure hope that Reince Priebus isn’t keeping track of me.

  That would just be too weird.

No, I haven't lost my marbles.  As you can see, they are safely contained in a little glass bowl.

Lensbaby, baby!

We are pretty much an Amazon Wish List family and rely heavily on it when one or another gift-giving opportunity arises.  So just for the heck of it, I put a Lensbaby on my Amazon Wish List.  Still it was a complete surprise when I opened my birthday gift from Greg this year and there it was.

 

In case you have never heard of the Lensbaby, it is a creative tool that mounts directly onto your SLR and allows you to tilt the lens for imaginative effects.  It would take too long here to try to explain why and how this works and I’m not sure I could do it anyhow.  If you click on the yellow Lensbaby above, it will take you to their website that can tell you more.  But I think it will be great fun messing around with this lens.

Today I am going to post a few photos I took with the Lensbaby.  The pictures of the bowl of marbles are not what I was expecting at all.  I was going to delete the whole batch but when I looked at them closer, I liked the shapes of the light reflecting off of the marbles so I decided to keep them and to do a few abstracts.  

The daylily and daisy pics give a better idea of what kind of focus can be done with the Lensbaby.  They are both pretty crummy pictures though.  I am going to keep practicing until I get it to do what I want it to do.

And here is a self-portrait I took using it.  I like that it is a bit blurry around the edges because most of the time, that’s how I feel.