It's Monday

I usually don't have a problem with Mondays. It's just another day of the week. Today, however, has been ugly. In fact, last Friday was a great day, and I think my "Friday the 13th" is today. I'm going back to that day, literally. My computer had a little crash this morning, so I need to do a restore back to that day and hopefully find a folder that has the last 2 years of my work in it. This all started me on a down hill slide. I was late for a meeting, couldn't print out the document I needed and I cant find the file I need to work on for a meeting tomorrow. I can deal with that stuff. It will be a major irritation until I can recreate all that stuff, but I can deal with it.
I also found out Yosemite is sold out already for the summer, and my dog's lost tag is going to cost another ten bucks to replace. I can even deal with that stuff. What I'm most irritated about is this ridiculous 50mm lens!

I rationalized myself into getting a lens that is just horrible. I mentioned how I love this lens and it's ability to blur out backgrounds. Well, I have completely changed my mind about this piece of crap. I read the reviews, and was ok with the plastic casing and the noise. Big deal, I'm not shooting anything serious and it's just my "in the meantime lens" anyway. This thing cant even handle that responsibility. The whole reason I wanted this Canon 1.8 50mm was for that 1.8 aperture ability. I never in my wildest dreams would have thought that it wouldn't be able to focus at a 1.8! I mean really, you get the ability to let all kinds of light in, but then cant focus! Are you kidding me?!?! This lens is cheap. I understand that; but it's not even worth the $89 or the gas money I burned to go get it.
I'm taking it back today.

The problem is the auto focus. When the light is low, the lens just goes in and out and in and out. It cant find the focus to save it's life. I was taking self-portraits and then trying to shoot different angles of my sons guitar. There was lots of light for my shots. In fact so much that I turned down the light because it was creating a glare. I had lots of light coming in from the top, left, and right so the lens should have had no problem. Eventually I got some passable shots. I have a small ray of hope that my lens is just a lemon, but I have a feeling all these lenses are junk. Stay away from this garbage. Pay the money and get the 1.4. I have yet to get my hands on one, but the build quality is supposed to be much better, and I'm assuming the additional $250 is paying for the focus ability that was not included with the 1.8.