Friday, February 22, 2008

Looking Up

Lots of things are looking up. Let's start with the moon. I meant to post about this yesterday, but I didn't. On Wednesday night I went over to Matthew's place for book club. At 9:00 we went out to look at the lunar eclipse. It was stunning. We had a nice clear (and cold) sky. When the moon was fully in the earth's shadow, it had a reddish hue, and the way it was shaded made it look like a real planet. Normally a full moon looks like a plain old dinner plate hanging in the sky. Wednesday it looked like a sphere. It was so vivid, I felt like I could sit back and pretend I was in some kind of science fiction movie looking up at a nearby planet or death star or just a much cooler moon. Hope you all made some time to take a look.

Secondly,tonight and tomorrow might be the first lengthy outdoor bike rides since the beginning of the month. TCBC tonight and Hiawatha Cyclery tomorrow. There have been opportunities earlier, and I would have gone on those rides if it wasn't for those meddling kids. I think I've got them pawned off so I can get out.

Third, the temperature is up.

Fourth, name improvements for the blog.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

With a blog title like that, you're sure to get noticed on blogger.com's "Blogs of Note"... under the subheading of "deranged and delusional."

The Old Man said...

It's all about traffic baby. And if I keep switching names I'll never get any.