Go Look at Mars. Tonight is the Night.

[rejectomorph]

The kitty must be feeling better. She harassed the other cat a while ago. The clouds have gone, but the sky remains a bit hazy, and I've never managed to get the telescope properly aligned. Those bugs that show up in late summer are making their infernal racket. I don't know exactly what they are, but they sound like crickets on speed. After a while, I don't pay attention to them, but when they briefly stop, the sudden silence makes me realize how annoying they are. I wish they'd shut up. Aside from Mars crashing into Earth tonight, and my being hypnotized by bugs, nothing much is happening. I will stop writing now, before I annoy myself as much as the bugs annoy me.

Comments

Mars and Bugs

[mrmustard.livejournal.com]

Are the bugs cicadas? Their chirping runs in pulses up and down the street. I like the way they sound.

Tonight is the night for Mars? I don't have a telescope or a friend with a telescope. What a bummer. Really. It would be cool to look at it during this period of proximity.

Re: Mars and Bugs

[rejectomorph]

Yes, this is the night on which Mars will crash into Earth and we will all die! And tomorrow, I would have won the lottery!

I don't know if the bugs are cicadas or not. Most likely, they are, but if so, they would be California cicadas, so they don't chirp in pulses. All of them are on all the time. Every cicada is a star! Of course, they, too, will all die when Mars crashes into Earth, so I forgive them for having one last night of fun.

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

fortunately there will be opportunity to see for a little longer.
tonight we've had clouds up here. low puffy clouds obscuring everything.
maybe tomorrow or the next night will work.