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The moon was full and bright this morning as we were leaving for work, but unless the weather pattern changes between now and this evening then we are not going to see the eclipse.  I'll have the camera charged and ready just in case.  "See that tiny, over-exposed orange blob?  That's the moon!"

Although we've been leaving home for work at about the same time every day since late spring, it feels much earlier these days.  There is something about heading out to the car when the sky is black, the air is cold, and the moon is high that makes one take a step back and say, "Wait a minute, it's still night.  Aren't we ostensibly diurnal?  Shouldn't we still be in bed?"

My brain is still a coffee away from being properly functional this morning.  I could make a pot, but if I don't drink it all and make a fresh pot then my co-workers will whine when they roll in later in the morning to find a quarter pot of bubbling, bitter tar.  Well, to be fair, only one of them would whine.  The other one wouldn't know good coffee if it fell in his lap at a McDonalds drive-through.  I could bake the pot dry and he'd merrily scrape the sludge from the bottom into his mug and call it good.

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Disagree with somebody's views?  What the heck, report him to the FBI because you never know what will happen in the current political climate.

Although they can be embarrassing when we let them loose in front of the rest of the world sometimes, I've lately come to appreciate the (mostly) harmless, crooked kooks that run the government up here.

Edit:

Bearing in mind that this person is playing the alarmist card, and listing off all the "worst case" scenarios - though, given the current climate, the no fly concern has some basis.

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Apparently the lunar eclipse is lovely. It's totally overcast here.

I updated PC-cillin 2004 to PC-cillin 2005. The company is paying (site license) so I may as well.