The hobby break continues...(and birthday begins)

So, I have been busy.  The way we track our productivity at work has dramatically changed (honest, it is even called "Production" and accounts for 40% of my yearly rating).  Due to this, I have been shifting when I hand work in for credit in order to ease the transition from the old system to the new system.  Well, the the first bi-week of the new system is ending I as I type this.

The pool table....
If you never saw the table, here are pictures of it protected and unprotected.  Hopefully it will be gone by the end of March, and I can start to clean up the basement and figure out how my hobbying will continue.  Until then, I am pretty much in lock down so I don't damage the table.

The Camera...
So I ordered two lens for my birthday.  Honestly I have enough hobby stuff.   $1200 of camera parts is no bigger than a land raider, I love this new hobby.  So I got a 60mm Mikro Nikkor and Nikon 70mm-300mm telephoto zoom.  I spent last night learning how to use a true macro lens on an orchid (results below).  This lens while profession grade, it more specialized than thought.  It does great close up work, but you have to be right on top of your subject.  It has been too windy to actually do anything with the 70-300mm (it is a f/4.5, but still a decent pro-sumer lens).