My birthday present to me

Well, the fact that the new drug won't let me sleep is finally working to my advantage.  Waking up at 1 a.m. also awoke me to the fact (while I was doing other work) that I should be testing out my 4000 mm telephoto lens for its original purpose as a telescope.

So here is my very first reasonably high-resolution picture of the moon:

And then I realized that the last time I used this lens, I was using a film camera, and I was falling into old habits.  I realized that I wasn't completely happy with the focus (which is kind of loose on this lens), and I could probably just take a few more shots and delete the ones that I didn't like as much.  I took some more a little later.

So, the purchase of the camera (and the extra work to update the firmware and solve the problem, and read the 920-page manual), although I didn't think of it as a birthday present at the time, kind of turns out to be my own birthday present to myself.