Spring is less than 30 minutes away…

It was cold, rainy and snowy today. It didn’t seem like the first day of spring. But, I am not going to complain – because, I only had to go to work. By a little afternoon I was home in my cosy apartment. My cosy messy apartment. I fixed the messy. Even, ran the dreaded vacuum. I didn’t attend to any paperwork today. I didn’t do any walking just to make the fitbit happy. I made 3.5 miles today, just doing my normal stuff.

Started the day, watching the total eclipse of the sun on the computer.

It was glorious, even as viewed on the Airness. It would have been magnificent to have been in Svalbard. Imagine what any eclipse of the sun would have meant to folk in the olden days. (And, we are becoming so mindlessly anti-science – maybe in the future.) Now, imagine a total eclipse. And wonder at the power you would have if you were one of the few who understood eclipses. Always makes me think of that great Isaac Asimov short story, “Nightfall”.

The next and most likely my last crack at a TOTAL eclipse will be in 2017. Check it out. The difference between partial and total is huge. Start planning now to be there.

I am feeling very mortal. I really am down to my last 10 years of “good time” – if I am lucky. Gotta make the most of the end of days.