Jello, people, do you miss me?

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I just have a lot going on. Working full time at weird hours, and editing my newest novel, which is almost done… so now I need to start doing the cover art… and I am going to do that right here!!!

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Yup, my camera now has a ‘spot’ that shows up on every photo… dang it…

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And, of course, it first showed up in all those photos I took on that two-day trip I went on with my younger daughter, Mollie, to see snow and mega-blooms of flowers.

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It isn’t on the lenses… it appears when I use the regular lens or the zoomy telephoto one.

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I cleaned both ends of both of those, and tested the camera.

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I even used lens wipes to clean the two little mirrors inside the camera housing.

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And it is still there.

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I know it isn’t the end of the world. It is just a spot.

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It is pretty easy to get rid of in Photoshop. That is what I did with the other photos I took on this trip.

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But it is just so annoying.

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I guess I have to take the camera into a camera store. Do they do inner cleanings?

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Out, damn spot! I’m being followed by a moon shadow. Bonus points if you get both of those references.

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You can hardly see the spot in some photos, depending on what I am taking a picture of.

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But it is driving me freekin’ crazy.

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See if you can spot the ‘annoying technical glitch’ issue with my camera in all these beautiful shots of Southern California… a game… sort of… (answer tomorrow)…

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It is in each and every one of these photos. It is easier to spot in some of them… (that was an extra hint, by the way). I noticed it when I first started to post the pictures I took on those two awesome days where my younger daughter, Mollie, and I went to see the flowers and the snow. I have been fixing it with Photoshop in the photos before posting them, but I tried to fix the camera and couldn’t do it. I may need to take my camera to a shop.

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Of love, snow and flowers… part 7… special ‘just my awesome daughter, Mollie’ edition… now, with none of those annoying words typed between the photos!!!

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Of love, snow and flowers… part 6… special ‘dad/daughter quality-time fun-time adventure-time’ edition… now, with none of those annoying words typed between the photos!!!

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Seriously, I love that kid. I can’t believe how special those two days were.

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Yes, I am getting older… and so is the cartoon me… but I am still weird!!!

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See, the cartoon me used to have brown hair, and a goatee. The new cartoon me reflects the changes that are happening to me in real life.

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The young cartoon me was a wild and crazy guy…

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Especially when I messed with him… me… in Photoshop. Hey, don’t judge me, I made that version for a very specific blog post about an important social issue… which I can’t remember right now.

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The new cartoon me is still pretty weird… and will get weirder as I mess with me… him… in Photoshop.

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The new me… both cartoon and meat version… is a little more insecure, a little more needy.

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But I have not given up on my evil plan to conquer the world through the clever use of a humor blog.

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I know, but…

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… I also have Photoshop, so I can do anything I can think of with the cartoon me’s…

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Also, just for the record, and in case you haven’t been keeping up, my hair is grayer now, and shorter, and I don’t have the goatee… so this little guy actually looks exactly like me…

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As you can plainly see, from this much more recent photo… ooooohhhh…. that gives me an idea… I am going to try to recreate photos of myself looking just like my cartoon me!!! Oh yeah!

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Oh yeah…

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Look what I made!!! I am going to name him Donald Dump!!!

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Wait for it…

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We interrupt our regularly scheduled photos of snowy mountains and flower fields to bring you really close-up pictures of a dead bug… you’re welcome…

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Hey, I know, but I was vacuuming the floor the other day, a regular occurrence with two dogs and a cat, and right before I sucked it up, I spotted this dead mosquito hawk. (no, I don’t know why they call them that, they don’t eat mosquitoes, and they don’t look like hawks, and they are pretty big)…

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And I got that cool digital microscope for Christmas…

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And I figured, why not?

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Nature is always interesting.

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Even when it is slightly disgusting.

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And it is fun to get up close and personal with mother nature.

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Uh… that is the very end of its tail… or abdomen… or thorax… or whatever.

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I guess the wings are the part I like best.

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Yeah, the wings.

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Oh, I almost forgot… the microscope can zoom down to an even closer level of focus…

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Well, that just ruins it. Hairs on the wing membranes? Eeeew.

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But I am really glad I am not the size of an insect.

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