I had glasses, and STILL ended up looking at the sun too much! Because I am a dope. I guess that's why my coworker's preschoolers are being kept inside... I don't think I did permanent damage, though.

Jealous of the people in the totality zones. We were at 65.8% per my far NE zip code, but it looked like a pretty small sliver to me.

View was easy through the welder mask. It must have been super freaky before people understood the science.

Sun came out again. It didn't seem that dark out until I remembered I was not wearing sunglasses. It seemed to be darker than when I wear sunglasses on a normal sunny day. Then I got into my apartment and realized it's brighter indoors than outdoors.

Our eyes just adjust to the dim sunlight so it seems brighter than it is, unless you're in the totality.

There's a group called Astronomers Without Borders who say they'll be collecting eclipse glasses for re-use in South America during the 2019 eclipse. [link]

I love that! I was noticing that ours say not to use after three years, so I can't keep them for 2024.

Cool, Calli!

I just checked Weatherunderground, which keeps a running log of the temperature during the day. There's a significant dip during the eclipse.

I hung out with a group of students, staff, and teachers for the height of the eclipse. One of them brought his chocolate lab. The dog was pretty chill. He was clearly taking his cue from his people, and was like, "Well, the sun's disappearing, but my human's cool with it and I'm getting lots of pettings. So, OK!"

My farmers market farmer did a video time lapse of his chickens. They got a little confused, looked like they wanted to roost, but it went by so fast they didn't really.

We reached 92% totality, and it was basically just like an overcast day -- not remotely dark or even twilight-y. It seems 8% sunlight is a lot of sunlight. But it was noticeably cooler at the eclipse's peak.