I spent about an hour outside with my telescope last night, freezing and watching the earth's shadow slip across the moon...incredible.

My little digital camera isn't very good for taking night shots (at least without a tripod) but sarahcoyne got this beautiful one and gave me permission to steal it:



Shuttle launches and landings, watching the shuttle pass over Ottawa with the International Space Station, and now a lunar eclipse...I'm a happy geek-gal, I tell ya.

Happy Thursday!

Moggy

p.s.
Don't forget to check out Von's art in a previous post: http://vonandmoggy.livejournal.com/339937.html

(From Astronomy Picture of the Day.)

Okay, today I'm eating lunch at my desk and catching up on reading...so this will be a random babbly post, maybe with a picture or two thrown in near the end.

Ready...set...go!

First of all, Rick Mercer's started updating his blog semi-regularly again...and it's very funny. Today's post is about how the retarded Tories CanadianReformAllianceParty is still trying to reopen the same sex marriage debate. I thought this line was especially good:

"Sure the Charter looks nice hanging on a wall but the fact is it grants far too many rights that are contrary to the deeply held personal views of many chubby white guys."

Off ya go and read the whole thing, though...it's worth it!

Secondly, some space news...there's the planned moon base (where zippyfish and I will be living as soon as it's completed...you may have trouble getting our Christmas cards to us, I'm not sure the postal service is ready to handle delivery to the moon) AND there's water on Mars?!

And, finally...it was Christmas at the Von and Moggy household last night! Here's me goofing around (what I do best) with the camera, lying on the lights that I was supposed to be putting on the tree:



Here's a jumble of decorations (we were sorting them out on the dining room table)...we have some nice, pretty glass ones and a few kitschy colourful ones....I think the A&W bear in the very upper righthand side of the picture counts as kitschy (kidding, I KNOW it does...but how can I part with it after all these years?!).



And here's the tree (though the blue LED lights show really, really brightly here for some reason...they aren't anywhere near that obvious on the actual tree):



I just finished uploading that last picture and a Christmas package arrived at my desk...one more present crossed off the list! Ho, ho, ho...life is good.

Moggy

It's been awhile since I had a space nerd post (don't worry, I'll make up for that when I get back from Washington...assuming we get to Dulles).

But...neat Mars stuff:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-10-03-mars-opportunity_x.htm

Yes, I should in fact be getting ready for work...hush your mouth.

Moggy

Good Thursday morning,

So, I just went to get a tea and I got sucked into buying a lottery ticket, one of those scratch 'n win things.

Guess how much I won?

The price of the ticket.

*head-desk*

Guess I'm not retiring today, after all.

Moggy

p.s.
I'm massively allergic to my hometown today. I wish they'd finish the work on Bank Street already...the clouds of dust are killing me.

p.p.s.
Go to the back of the class, Pluto...you've been demoted.

p.p.p.s.
Shuttle launch at 4:30 p.m. (EST) on Sunday! And we've got a Canadian on this one (no, unfortunately, it's not me).