meteors

i'm currently sitting on the roof.

it's so nice out!

i'm waiting for the perseoid meteor shower. it's apparently been visible on and off since july, but tonight is the peak. so i'm outside. waiting.

and my internet just went out, but that's okay cuz it doesn't affect current pages. so i'll just have to wait to post this when it comes back.

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there's lightning in the east and it smells like rain. i hope it doesn't start to pour while i'm out here...

no thunder yet, so i don't think it's very close.

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i'm not sure if i'll be able to see any...

there's so many clouds out tonight. on a clear night i can see a fair number of stars, but tonight i can only see a few of the brightest.

it looks like there's a veil over the sky, thicker in some places than others.

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i think i might actually go to bed soon. it doesn't look like i'll be able to see the meteors because of the clouds, and i'm awfully sleepy.

today we went to uncle ba's memorial service. he passed away friday morning, but i'm not sure what exactly was the cause. i know he was recovering from cancer, but then he broke his hip and was moved to a baltimore hospital. poppop didn't think he'd last very long there, he wasn't doing too well. but we went a couple days after being moved.

it's sad, and i know dad is still torn up about it. i think that might be partly why he's still awake right now. which is why i couldn't sneak out of the house and drive to soldiers delight for a [hopefully] better view. though at that point i wasn't counding on the clouds, so i'm not sure how much better that would have been.

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the moon looks like it's glowing. it's a waning gibbous tonight, and on the round side i can see the color spectrum - or i could before it went behind some thick clouds... it was really pretty.

there's a streetlight across the street that intermittently turns on and off. right now it's dark. it really is nice out. i think i want to spend some more nights outside like this. i hope it's not too horrible in rva at night. though, then i'd be sitting on our little deck, instead of the roof, since i've got the basement room and we can't really get to our roof by simply removing a window screen. not that the land-people would like us venturing onto the roof...