Snow, earthquake and solar eclipse all within 7 days

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 19:04:59 GMT

This last week: pushed forward as much as I could on the initiatives I started on my business trip. It was a "no meeting week" at work, which isn't observed 100% but does help. Spent a lot of time gathering and organizing documentation related to stuff I care about, mostly written by a streak of three or four people I miss who are now gone, and that was a downer.

Thursday I woke up to snow on the ground, on April 4. I couldn't avoid the weather -- I was going to see the bug playing cello in a concert in the planetarium at the Museum of Science (and also return some headphones to the REI store because they shipped the wrong thing; I'm not doing well with splurges). Then Friday morning I felt an earthquake! It took a while for the internet to confirm that it was indeed an earthquake, a 4.8 centered in New Jersey. Most folks in my area who were on the first floor didn't feel it, but it was quite pronounced up here on the 3rd floor of the relatively skinny building I live in.

So you could say things are getting pretty serious, out there in the natural world.

Perse can't come with us to the eclipse, but the bug and I hung out with her on Friday for dinner before (ironically?) coming back to continue with The Three Body Problem on Netflix. Now we go to observe a different three-body event, which is not a problem, but would be a problem if anyone wanted it to not happen. Humanity has no control over this thing.

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Snow, earthquake and solar eclipse all within 7 days