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Eclipse (ofc, everyone’s writing about it)
Daily Meditation 771 — 4/8/2024
Unless you live under a rock, down a flight of 100 floors of steps and then submerged beneath a lead barrier where no data can reach, you know that today we had the first total solar eclipse in nearly 50 years. The next won’t be for another 20. I will be nearing 60 (!) by the time we have yet another.
Just a few days ago, my wife and I were yammering on about the coming eclipse. We were excited as we enjoy space related stuff (“Interstellar” is, after all, my favorite movie of all time), and had just enjoyed seeing two SpaceX launches in Florida recently, too.
Well, where we live, we would’ve been only in about 70–80% coverage. And, due to the nature of where we live, it would’ve been at least a 4 hour drive to get better seats — Lake Michigan serves as a big wedge, here!
Making matters more interesting, well, the weather here was slated for possible rain and clouds. Not really idyllic sunshine weather (is it still “sunshine” if the moon is blocking it?).
But, Andrea and I get along famously. We can happily ride in a car with one another — no music, no fighting, no arguing, no distain — for full days…
So I hatched a daytrip plan.
