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Sunday, July 22, 2007
I should not be so perky right now.
This afternoon (well, yesterday afternoon) we went to Lick Observatory (you know, why couldn't the guy have been named, say, Thompson? Yay for the guy and all, thank you for your contributions to science, but Lick Observatory just sounds... wrong). It was a lovely drive, and looking through the ginormous telescopes, which I had never done before, was sublime. We stayed until almost eleven. The observatory is three and a half hours from home going the quick way -- which we did not use. We got home, with a brief stop to eat (1:00 AM, we were at this place off the freeway with like ten fast-food joints per square foot, and every drive-thru was busy. It was ... surreal) and a stop to get gas, at 3:20-ish. All I can say about that is that T has reason to be glad that I have my strange up-till-the-wee-small-hours sleep habits, because I drove home with nary a yawn, singing along to the iPod, while he and LT both snored. Next time he gives me a hard time when I come to bed at three AM, I'll ask if it's worth saving an $80 night in a hotel for him to leave me alone about it.
(Oh, did I say I was going to start going to bed at a normal hour? Har! hee hee! ha!)
Poor T, though. He was off looking at some astronomy-related thing, maybe Jupiter or something, while I was setting up my tripod to take some post-sunset city lights pictures and watching the sun go down. As the sun set, the last little bitty remnant of it flashed green. I didn't know this was anything special, although the guy next to me kind of freaked out about it, until T came over asking if it had really happened because the aforementioned excited guy was telling everyone about it and they didn't believe him. Apparently this is something T has wanted to see, oh, his entire life, and he missed it, and I couldn't have cared less while I stood there and watched it happen before my very eyes. (Also, I went in a tank at an airshow when I was like seven, and didn't care a hoot about it, whereas T, who has been a tank freak since he was in diapers, did not have a similar opportunity until he was past thirty; add to this the fact that my bank-assigned ATM PIN is pretty much his favorite number -- it's a car thang -- and means nothing at all to me, and I suppose I should really start to feel pretty bad for the guy.)
Comments
But imagine how much worse you'd have to feel for him if he weren't married to you and able to get these references by proxy! ;)
Posted by: Kat with a K at July 22, 2007 04:02 PM
What was the green flashy thing?
Posted by: jenn at July 22, 2007 09:50 PM
Y&es, the green flash is pretty unusual - in fact, I've only heard of it in the tropics, and have never seen it.
Posted by: dichroic at July 23, 2007 12:23 AM
