The phrase "drive the executive SUV" is making me laugh and laugh.
Unrelatedly -- you guys, the aurora borealis is (are?) all over the damn country tonight! People are reporting them as far south as Oklahoma and Tennessee, as far west as Kansas City, and as far east as New York.
We're too close to the city lights and get too much light pollution, but I still went out and stood in the driveway looking up for a while tonight. (The neighbors probably think I was summoning the mothership.) Didn't see anything, but apparently a bunch of people in the area did. Which is pretty cool anyway.
Well I am a) wondering why that would be happening and it's freaking me out a little, and b) about to go outside and look for the mother ship aurora borealis.
ETA: None for me.
Warner Brothers will be pulling the Harry Potter DVDs out of circulation on December 29.
People are reporting them as far south as Oklahoma and Tennessee, as far west as Kansas City, and as far east as New York.
I went out looking and didn't see anything. Boo.
I am quoting directly from this article (which I could just link and leave it at that, but I already copied the text):
The sun spit out a sizable Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) around 2pm EDT Monday. It only takes the light from the sun about eight minutes to get to the earth but it takes several hours for us to feel the effects of a CME.
SpaceWeather.com relayed a report from the Goddard Space Weather Lab saying, "the impact [of the CME] caused a strong compression of Earth's magnetic field, allowing solar wind to penetrate all the way down to geosynchronous orbit for a brief period."
Now I gotta go look out for aurora.
This is the stressed out dumped rescue kitten as of tonight: [link]
AWB is slaying me with the awake cutitude.
Thankfully, AWB sleeps plenty. But those times don't make for as interesting photos. So when he *is* awake, I try to seize the moment (photographically speaking).
So, I went out to my front yard. Saw the Big Dipper, no auroras.
Oh, wow, adorable AWB, Jon!!
