| Lunar Eclipse |
[Feb. 20th, 2008|11:25 pm] |
Hauled out the tripod for the occasion. |
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[Jan. 6th, 2008|12:36 pm] |
Stunner of a sunset last night.
It started throwing off some nice sun rays.
Then the whole sky erupted in color. I wish my shots of the mountains turned out, stained red and throwing sharp dark shadows. But they were blurry--I was shooting too fast to check.
Even nearing the end it wasn't too shabby. |
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[Jan. 3rd, 2008|02:41 pm] |
I have a camera now! And, following on as it does these days, a flickr account. With plenty of pictures of my cat.
Taken from the car on the drive back from Boyce Thompson Arboretum on 12/31. Back home I collapsed, and got up for twenty minutes to see the ball drop, then went back to sleep. Very exciting, I know.
One of my resolutions this year is to get more connected again. I kinda suck at maintaining friendships, and really gotta work on that. The other is to finish up the dang novel, submit it, and write the next one, before november comes around again. |
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| STS-117 |
[Jun. 22nd, 2007|01:00 pm] |
Dude I totally heard the double sonic boom from the shuttle landing! It got down safe, too, which is a big relief. When it didn't... well, that was a seriously bad day. If there's one thing I get all patriotic and idealistic about, it's spaceflight, and when it goes wrong... well, even then I still kinda want to be an astronaut when I grow up. Not gonna happen, though, since that iritis episode last year made my left eye only correctable to 25/20. It's gotta be 20/20 to even be a mission specialist, woe.
The shuttle came down at Edwards Air Force base, somewhere in the desert vaguely northeast of here. I guess living in southern California can be nerdily cool on rare occasion. Didn't see anything, it was probably too high up/too hazy here/too hard to spot with all the local air traffic. But I heard it!
Guess I should start planning that Florida trip, if I ever want to see it take off. 2020 or whenever the replacement is due is much too far away. I wanna see a launch before then.
And hey Tucson peeps: pay attention to the sky today. Apparently sometimes they refuel the huge plane carrying the shuttle at Davis-Monthan on the way back east. |
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[Jun. 14th, 2007|09:44 am] |
After the big blog the zom-pocalypse thing yesterday, this was an ...interesting headline to see pop up in the rss first thing in the morning: FBI tries to fight zombie hordes.
Woke me up a bit more, at least. Now if I could just figure out where this nasty wound on my arm came from, and why I'm so... hungry.. |
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[May. 17th, 2007|06:16 pm] |
I finally got my taaax refund. $200-ish. What should I do with it?
I could get a cheapoid camera and take pictures of stuff. I could get a new ipod, since the battery in mine is starting to go. I could get some really awesome boots. Or something else...
(The correct answer is probably to put it towards the quarterly tax payments for this year, but that's no fun) |
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[Mar. 25th, 2007|03:40 pm] |
Survived the quarter, just barely. With luck, I'll never have to think about atmospheric dynamics again. With my luck, there'll be a big section of it on comps, which are coming up in June.
I've been wanting to get a digital camera recently. Instead, it looks like I'll be paying taxes. I had taxes taken out of just about half of what I earned last year, which I moaned about at the time but it still wasn't quite enough. So now I get to pay enough to the gov't to have otherwise gotten a nice camera like, say this one. Oh well.
It's been warm here, and I've been getting twitchy about starting a garden. I think I don't get quite enough sunlight on the teeny tiny balcony to really grow tomatoes, which I'm just pining to do. I want great big, juicy heirloom brandywines like those I live off from the farmer's market in summer. I have some herbs out there now, and the house plants, but I want a reaaaal gaaaarden.
Lucky for me, there are two community gardens on campus available for the use of students. One is full up at the moment. In the other, there seems to be a space open. I just emailed the organizers about getting in, so we'll see what happens. I hope they let me in. It's prime tomato planting season, right here, right now. |
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[Feb. 22nd, 2007|08:05 pm] |
It's totally my birthday today.
(I'm not fond of birthdays)
I got rain. |
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| Heroes |
[Feb. 20th, 2007|06:01 pm] |
I've started watching Heroes these past few weeks, since ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston started on it, like the little Doctor Who obsessive that I am.
Behind the cut are my impressions and spoilers for episodes up to ( last night. ) |
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