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once upon a time, there was a girl who liked a boy. this boy was a very special boy. he had walls dotted with small pictures of gigantic kittens stalking through towns.

well, this girl was shopping in a lovely little eclectic music store one day when she saw a greeting card. it was the most amazing card she'd ever seen. and she knew that it belonged on the boy's wall, so she bought it for him, even though it was autumn.

well, she bought it because she knew the picture would make the boy laugh with glee and that he'd grin for years whenever he looked at the card or even thought about bunnies, easter, or baskets.

she was right.

the boy laughed out loud when he opened the card--the first card the girl had ever given him. he hugged the girl and then put the card on his wall. whenever he looked up and saw the card, he would giggle.

and when he moved out of that room, he carefully packed the card away until the next semester. he did this every year. and one day, he packed the card away for safe-keeping and told the girl (who had managed to continue to make him laugh all these years) that someday he wanted a larger picture of it to keep on their wall forever, because it reminded him not only of the dark and vicious nature of bunnies and the cruelty of snatching the easter bunny's carefully hidden eggs, but it reminded him of the girl and how she was his friend from the first day they met.

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just went out to spot the coathanger asterism. woohah!

cygnus is especially difficult to find this time of night. it's directly overhead, but that means it's at its most compact form. and the milky way is quite distinct out here, so it can be difficult to even locate the distinct shape of cygnus. i had more luck with lyra and aquila, who lie lower. in fact, i used casseopia and cephus to locate cygnus, finally, simply because i was peeved that the swan could hide from me. ;)

i saw several perseids and several non-perseids.

now i'm gonna go back out and try spotting M31. my binoculars are kiddie (7x35), so i'm not sure this will work.

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nifty rainbow stuff.

earlier, i found M31 and investigated various nifties in cygnus and lyra. i suppose i could provide links if anyone is really intrigued with the geekiness abounding right now. i think i saw a few anti-helion meteors, though it's hard to be sure... it's hard to precisely identify the gegenschein this time of year... the milky way's so bright and nearly in the way. it's sometimes hard to tell whether i'm looking at the gegenschein or part of the milky way.

just watched the Cosmos 2369 rocket body (satellite) soar through cygnus, pegasus, and down through aquarius.

saw some perseids and possibly a delta aquarid or alpha capricornid or two. thought about staying for some more perseids and the debris of cosmos 1985, but something snorted close by and i sprinted for the door.


it was probably just a cow, but it spooked me.

ah, well, i should go to bed. my chest is feeling a bit better. i think the cool night air helped, despite all the damn grass pollen. my eyes are burning, but i can breathe without pain in my chest, so i'll take it. if not for the pollen, i'd open the bedroom windows tonight.

i can't believe i actually sprinted. that was dumb. if there had been a predator out there, i'd be toast. then again, i was able to gauge that it was at *least* at the fenceline and i was much closer to the house than the fenceline. and i knew i just needed to get to the motion sensor for the floodlights. yeah. that's it.


stargazing is dangerous. ;)

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robert rodriguez thinks like a kid.

he's so freakin' cool. :)

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i went to the new movie rental place by the new food lion, signed up for a membership, and rented two videos. i went for the first spy kids, but they were out (both DVD and VHS), so i picked up el mariachi and darby o'gill and the little people. i like 'em both and haven't seen either one in several years.

right now, however, we're watching courage: the cowardly dog.

we likes our courage.