alenxa dubbed yesterday the Day of Mechanical Failure, though, come to think of it, it was more the day of following up on mechanical failure. The car is beginning to seriously show its age, and we’re starting to think about replacing it. Then there was my mom’s flight home from Chicago, which turned around and landed in Denver because they were losing fuel. How exactly does one “lose” fuel in mid-air? I have several ideas, and none of them are good. (She made it home yesterday.)
After going back and forth a bit, I finally decided to get up in the middle of the night and watch the lunar eclipse this morning. I took the digital camera out, set it for full zoom (ha!) and took some blurry photos that make the moon look rather like Mars seen through a telescope.
Looks like I’ll be living on coffee today, but on the plus side, for the first time ever I managed to get my toast to actually come out of the toaster at work as toast without hovering over it. On this toaster, the line between charcoal and warm bread is a very narrow one.