To my delight, Kevin came home early this afternoon, giving us a chance to relax and enjoy an extended happy hour on the balcony – very comforting after all the running around we have been doing. Typical of Aussie slackness, their network has been down all week, and since they rely entirely on the internet, there was nothing to do at the office so everyone left. Call the DSL tech support and they promise to have the issue resolved in 7-10 working days!! Ridiculous!
There is a comet passing over New South Wales this week, but I was sure we had missed it. I was pleasantly mistaken. It is absolutely one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in the night sky (except for the missiles launched from Vandenberg Air Force base when we lived in Simi Valley – those were pretty cool, too.) As we watched the comet descend to the west, I couldn’t help but contemplate the grand scale of the universe, my imagination adjusting its own perspective to imagine a tiny blob of ice passing over a tiny blob of iron on which sits a tiny blob of electrochemical impulses passing through randomly ordered carbon molecules that is amazingly able to conceive of itself without really knowing anything at all. Whoa. And I haven’t even been smoking weed…
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Nice comet picture. It was visible to the northern hemisphere as it was approaching the sun, but we never saw because it was so close to the horizon.
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