It has been over a month since I last posted here, and I don’t have any new photos to share with you – sorry! It’s not because the coronavirus has slowed me down. I’ve been staying home almost entirely, and as far as I can tell, am still healthy. Some people have actually had more time available for hobbies since the virus has caused closures and lock-downs all over the world. And all too many people no longer have jobs to go to. In my case, I have been very busy developing some new products, and would have had pretty much the same schedule with or without the virus.
But I have been practicing the ukulele every day. I don’t play it very well, but it helps to drown out my singing, so that’s a good thing. One of the songs I sing & play often is the Eagles’ “Desperado”, and recently I came up with some new lyrics for it:
Desperate imager, why don’t you come to your senses
You’ve been out with your lenses all night now
Oh, you’re a tough one, I know that your butt is freezin’
To get an image that’s pleasin’ will hurt you, and how.
Don’t you buy that Ritchey-Chretien boy,
They’ll break you if they’re able
You know a small refractor’s always your best bet
Now it seems to me that wide-field
Gives you data that is stable
But you only want the targets you can’t get
Desperate imager, oh, you ain’t gettin’ no richer
No one’s buying your pictures, they languish online
And APOD – well, that’s just some people talkin’
Your software is balking, and your stars won’t align
Don’t your feet get cold ‘most all the time
The night is cloudy when the day sun-shines
It’s hard to stay awake throughout the day
There’s noise in both your highs and lows
Ain’t it scary how it never goes away
Desperate imager, why don’t you come to your senses
Cap up your lenses, give up for tonight
It will be rainin’, and probably snow, too
You better let somebody show you (let somebody show you)
You-oo better let somebody show you how to turn on the light