I hate when summer comes to an end, but based on the driveway this morning, there is no use fighting it.

Took this with my iPod touch because I have an iPod touch because it’s 2007.

EXTREME CLOSE UP! WOAH!

No reason to post this, but I am posting it anyway.  Three bands where everyone is at least 1000000000000000000000000000 times better than I.

 

 

I have no reason to post this, other than I’m early to pick up my step son and sometimes I find posting random, pointless pictures entertaining. Bite me if you’ve got a problem with it. Don’t judge, you dirty swine.

Meow, ya filthy animals.

Patches really wants me to get an iPhone X. She said that she’d come up with cuter looks for me to photograph if I got an iPhone X.

No, I am not talking about the Apple Event from earlier today.  I had to work through that and couldn’t even follow along on twitter.  I’ll catch up eventually though.

No, the spectacle I’m talking about is my new spectacles.  I have been wearing reading glasses since I was 12 or 13 years old.  Lately my eyesight has been getting noticeably worse so I made an appointment with an eye doctor over the weekend.

The diagnosis?  My left eye is perfect.  Or just about perfect.  My right eye… a mess.  The treatment?  Progressive lenses.  Looking through the very top portion of my new specs works for long distances.  Looking straight through the middle works for medium distances.  Looking through the bottom of the lenses replaces my old reading glasses.

I have now had these glasses for about 24 hours.  What do I think?

I’m getting used to them, but it still feels odd.  I can’t move my eyes to look around, I have to move my whole head.  That is taking some getting used to.  Reading at the computer is hard because I want to look straight ahead but I have to look down.  So I find my head tilting back.  It’s just odd to have to tilt my head up and down to find the right angle from eye to lens to object such that the object is in focus.

What’s the weirdest part of the whole thing?  When I get up from the computer to walk somewhere I am no longer supposed to take off my glasses.  20 times today I reached up to take them off.  Stop doing that!  The other weird thing is I don’t have to carry a case around anymore.  Every time I went somewhere today I felt like I was forgetting something.

The worst part?  When they slide down my damn nose and I have to push them back up. I’ve had it up to here (raises hand to the level the glasses are supposed to be instead of the level they actually are) with that already!  Adjustments are needed!

 

I have a need to provide music for a social gathering. It’s not a band situation. It requires me to put on some tunes and let it go until its time to go home. My iPhone is the obvious tool for this job. Put on an Apple Music playlist and forget about it. But that means I’m without a phone all night. My iPad would work, but I don’t want to leave that lying around. So what to do?

What to do is to bring my Apple fanboy self to a new place… an iPod touch. I bought the smallest one yesterday. I’ve been playing with it all day. It’s so teeny tiny and cute. I made a five hour playlist and downloaded it all. Now I can just press shuffle and forget about it.

Apple nerd forever.

Last night the Red Sox won their 81st game of the season. Let’s all celebrate the fact that the absolute worst they can do is finish at 81-81 for a .500 record. Woohoo! Happy .500 day!

The magic number to clinch the AL East is 17. That sounds awful, but at least we have reached the point where calculating the magic number isn’t ridiculous. Woohoo! Happy magic number!