meteors

 (Useful advice to DAve in sff.net . . .  )


What can I say, Dave? You’re just one small sex-change operation away from being able to pee and read at the same time with no trouble. The wife and kids might moan about it, but hey. Three more books a year, at your rate. (And a whole new world of reading, chick lit, will open up.)

No meteor luck this morning. I went out about five to look for Perseids, and had a nice relaxing time lying on the lounge chair staring up at the unchanging skies. I saw two faint flashes that might have been Perseids, and one bright meteor that went in the wrong direction (“sporadic”). In an hour I should have seen ten or twenty, but conditions were far from ideal – nearly full moon and a glowing slight haze that washed out all but 25 stars and one planet (not counting Earth). I guess the two I sort of saw were about second magnitude.

But there are worse ways to waste an hour than lying under the stars in the morning cool. No mosquitoes, even though it rained a little yesterday. I should have thought to take music; tomorrow I’ll take the iPhone and ‘phones.

Joe