Because you know what I wish for.Anyone else catch the Perseid meteor shower last night/early morning?
Got this "one in a million shot" from our porch last night. An "early bird" fireball (as the "show" wasn't supposed to start really 'till around midnight and after). I was actually after a picture of Mars (the reddish "star" around the top right quadrant of the photo) and when I opened the pic on the computer this morning, I went, "What the heck is that?" I cleaned my lap top screen thinking it was dirt but, nope, the little streak was still there (lower left hand quadrant). I caught a meteor! You can miss 'em very easily. Blink and they're gone.
My brother and I stayed up till around 1am. Dana cried "Uncle" and crawled off to bed before midnight. Carl saw two and I didn't see squat. More a "drip" than a "shower" really. I thought I must have missed it. Too much blinking. Was very tired. Past the time this Cinderella's clock starts bonging and her coach turns back into a pumpkin. And then by 1am some clouds started rolling in and what probably would have been a better viewing of this celestial event was further obscured. Show's over. Oh, well. Maybe next year.
To quote Jonathan Hilstrand of the ship "Time Bandit" ("Deadliest Catch" on Discover), "I'd rather be lucky than good any day."
Amen.
Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket :P.
