Thursday, November 29, 2001 Link
Gleaned from Dawn's web log at American Graffiti: Open Brackets: Lost in Translation, notes and sketches from the south of France.
8:30 AM CST (GMT -6)
Friday, November 23, 2001 Link
I enjoyed this column about the importance of Harry [Potter] by Deborah Hornblow in the Hartford Courant. In praising the Potter books as worthwhile, escapist reading in troubled times, she also reminds that Camus' The Plague, and Stewart O'Nan's A Prayer for the Dying provide examples of "bravery and simple, unshakeable goodness" on more complex levels. I've read the former (and agree with her assessment of it), and I've added the latter to my somedaymaybe reading list on her say-so.
9:00 AM CST (GMT -6)
Sunday, November 18, 2001 Link
I do have the right stuff.
The sky was clouded when I went to bed Saturday night, so when the alarm went off at 3:30 a.m., I was semi-hopeful after two eight-minute snooze alarms that local skies might still be cloudy. (Was it Paula Poundstone who did the snooze alarm/morning math routine?) As luck would have it, skies were clear, so I dressed, woke Taylor, tried without success to wake Owen, fired up the Metro and set off in search of high ground.
The local constabulary was turning folks away from Bluemont Hill, the neighborhood high ground ("Curfew, sorry"), so Taylor and I headed to Observation Point at Tuttle Creek, where we would huddle with a half dozen other carloads of early risers.
Before you could say "there's one" (which at this hour might be all I have to say about a meteor), another would flash by.
There might be more to say, but now it's time for some Tang and some sleep.
5:00 AM CST (GMT -6)
Saturday, November 17, 2001 Link
The prime viewing hours in the US Midwest (GMT-6) will be from 3 to 5 AM, Sunday morning. Do I have the right stuff to get out of bed to watch the Leonid Meteor Shower?
7:20 AM CST (GMT -6)
Thursday, November 1, 2001 Link
Clicking my link to Evaporation this morning paid off, bringing a smile that hasn't left me yet.
Good to see ya, Steve!
8:00 AM CST (GMT -6)
