Eclipse 2017
My original plans called for me and my wife to leave Ohio on Saturday 8-19, stay overnight in Wytheville, and then continue to my dad's house in South Carolina the next day. News reports of huge traffic jams caused my wife to become concerned about getting stuck in traffic for hours on end which would not be a good thing considering she has leg problems. The plans were changed Thursday night. I left Friday morning by myself and drove the entire way without stopping. I did hit some traffic, but nothing like the media was predicting. In fact, the traffic jams failed to materialize until after the eclipse.
I watched the eclipse from the comfort of my dad's back porch. What a show! During totality, the crickets, cicadas, and tree frogs started singing. A large spider on the deck downstairs came out and began dismantling her web. Venus became visible and the corona was the only thing providing light. And then, as quickly as it had become dark, the sun reappeared and the show was over. 2 minutes and 30 seconds of memory that will remain with me for a long time to come.
If you missed the 2017 eclipse, you will have another chance in 2024. This one just happens to pass over my area and I will not have to travel anywhere to see it.
I did manage to get some writing done while on vacation. Collision Course now stands at 32,342 words putting it over 1/3 of the way to completion. I have a fuzzy idea as to how the story is going to end and I have a few scenes in my head that I know must get into the manuscript. Other than that, this story has been unfolding as I write it. So far, so good.
I've also begun the process of moving my website over to a new host. The initial site that viewers will see is complete and waiting to be viewed. All I'm waiting for now is the actual transfer to take place. Moving a website from one host to another is not as easy as one might think. The entire process will most likely take about 10 days as the current host wants to wait for the longest time possible before releasing the domain for transfer. Luckily, the people at X10Hosting have experience in doing this and all I had to do was to put in a help desk ticket with them and then contact my current host. They're handling the rest. I will let you know when the new site is available.
A couple days before I came back home, the bottom fell out of my daughter's car--literally. This triggered a series of actions my wife and I had discussed concerning the fate of her current car about a month or so ago. We weren't expecting to implement this plan for a few years. I arrived home on Friday at 11:30 AM. By 1:30 PM, we were at the car dealer looking at cars. At 5:15 PM, we were the owners of a new Hyundai Ioniq. My daughter picked up my wife's old car on Saturday.
I watched the eclipse from the comfort of my dad's back porch. What a show! During totality, the crickets, cicadas, and tree frogs started singing. A large spider on the deck downstairs came out and began dismantling her web. Venus became visible and the corona was the only thing providing light. And then, as quickly as it had become dark, the sun reappeared and the show was over. 2 minutes and 30 seconds of memory that will remain with me for a long time to come.
If you missed the 2017 eclipse, you will have another chance in 2024. This one just happens to pass over my area and I will not have to travel anywhere to see it.
I did manage to get some writing done while on vacation. Collision Course now stands at 32,342 words putting it over 1/3 of the way to completion. I have a fuzzy idea as to how the story is going to end and I have a few scenes in my head that I know must get into the manuscript. Other than that, this story has been unfolding as I write it. So far, so good.
I've also begun the process of moving my website over to a new host. The initial site that viewers will see is complete and waiting to be viewed. All I'm waiting for now is the actual transfer to take place. Moving a website from one host to another is not as easy as one might think. The entire process will most likely take about 10 days as the current host wants to wait for the longest time possible before releasing the domain for transfer. Luckily, the people at X10Hosting have experience in doing this and all I had to do was to put in a help desk ticket with them and then contact my current host. They're handling the rest. I will let you know when the new site is available.
A couple days before I came back home, the bottom fell out of my daughter's car--literally. This triggered a series of actions my wife and I had discussed concerning the fate of her current car about a month or so ago. We weren't expecting to implement this plan for a few years. I arrived home on Friday at 11:30 AM. By 1:30 PM, we were at the car dealer looking at cars. At 5:15 PM, we were the owners of a new Hyundai Ioniq. My daughter picked up my wife's old car on Saturday.
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