synthaetic synapse

earlier this week, i got glasses. just a very slight astigmatism in my left eye: not even enough of a prescription to warrant contacts, and really not so bad given that i’m over forty and have put my eyes through a lot of stuff over the years. anyway, yesterday, i took a self-portrait with my cell phone, and sent the pic to Daughter the First and my friend Sherri. Sherri’s mobile phone, from which she has sent me a pic in the past, apparently could not handle receiving photos. which makes sense, because Sherri’s kind of one of those gals who can dish stuff out, but not take it.

ooops. did i say that out loud? sorry, Sherri. i guess it’s not really fair for me to call ‘em like i see ‘em.

anyway, in the hopes of keeping Sherri from apoplexy because she hasn’t been able to see a stupid photo of me in my new glasses, i offer the following. click the thumbnail to see it full-size.

hey, look. i got Transitions lenses! woo-hoo!

so, there you go, Sherri. don’t say i never gave you anything.

now, go get a freakin’ cell-phone that accepts pic messages. eesh!

{UPDATE: hey, look! check it out! I’m Hairy Potter!}

i was able to captured #1 Daughter’s school Christmas Concert, but where we sat for her Nutcracker performance didn’t really allow for me dragging in one of my decent lenses, and the Moscow Ballet is rather stringent on the “no photography” issue, so i declined to go there. #1 Son, apparently, would not have been very happy with me if i had shot his choir concert, either, but his grandfather did. if those photos are provided to us digitally, i’ll get them up here so we can embarrass #1 Son, who really has no reason to be embarrassed at all.

obviously, i need to get a little point-and-click with a decent zoom lens, where i can shut off the back screen and any other lights so i can illegally photograph her dance performances. that, or a nicely compact extreme telephoto lens i can put on something like the D70. bah.

at any rate, these are from #1 Daughter’s Christmas Concert on December 4, 2007. she’s quite the ham, isn’t she? once i figured out where they were, i tried to capture some of the neighbor kids as well, but that really wasn’t my focus, of course.

on to the photos…