Recent oddities:

The quite convincing illusion of Mars orbiting the Earth, a combination of extensive nighttime haze and a nearly full Moon producing an uncanny resemblance.

A website listing all the manned spacecraft and their current whereabouts or fate. All the Mercurys, Geminis, Apollos, shuttles, everything. Even down to capsules that didn't fly or flew monkeys. I printed off the list of Apollos. Apollo 6 is in Atlanta, oddly enough, at the Fernbank Science Museum. This may deserve a road trip.

An inexplicable inability to find a decent map of the Moon on the net. And the apparent odd ETX ability to horizontally flip the image of its field of view, so that any maps of the Moon one does find are backwards.

The realization that for the last several days I've been eating nothing but meat and bread and maybe my near-fugue state of listlessness is due to vitamin deficiency. Plus a fair bit of hormonal exhaustion. Vitamins acquired, vegetables are being eaten and things are looking up.

There may be a story in the offing. We shall see. Just it may not be the story I was intending to work on. But ya gotta go where the plot bunnies lead ya.

"Unfinished Business" submitted to M/A. It's only been 5 years since I posted "Caer Avalon"!

Less than a month til my birthday. Still haven't made plans.

The ability to shuffle all songs by a particular artist on the iPod, which can give one a continuous barrage of Loreena McKinnett. And ocassionaly Jonn Serrie. And sometimes SETI and "Science Friday" podcasts.

An odd cartoon series called "The Joy of Tech".

Mistaking the star Antares for distant Mars.