Planet Gazing

Last night srakkt had a small group of us over for a telescope gathering. You might think this isn't something you can do in the middle of the light-polluted city, but you can and we did. Several of us had Galileoscopes, which are small 'scopes that replicate the view from Galileo's original telescope. beowabbit brought along his more powerful big telescope. Our main focus was to look at Saturn and its rings, which we did, and it was beautiful. We also got to see Mars and a stunning view of the moon. We had set up our 'scopes on the sidewalk, and people walking or biking by sometimes stopped to have a look. It was such a simple thing to do but so much geeky fun, and I hope we can do it again sometime.

Run!

Unlike me, surrealestate can run! And she ran the whole Boston Marathon yesterday! Congratulations on a huge success!

I'm going to sign up for the Boston Sit-athon. :-)

A Good Day

Today was a good day.

I got to wake up in the arms of my darling beowabbit and love him.

I got 4 pages of my research paper done, and my APA citations all set up.

I got a callback for a 2nd interview at a company with great benefits.

I got to meet with the lovely young couple whose wedding I'll be officiating. My first!

I got to see decorated war hero surrealestate a day after she ran the Boston Marathon.

I now get to go read on my balcony on this lovely spring night.

I needed this, and am grateful. :-)