A total eclipse of a post

August is doing that weirdly elastic time thing again; I was looking through coupons last night and was about to toss one for being expired when I realized that August 31 is at the end of this week, not in the past. It does not help that the kid started school halfway through the month. My brain will forever associate beginning school = end of summer = September, and no amount of logic can overcome that well-worn path, it seems.

So, a week late, have a few words on last Monday.

The eclipse was magnificent and fun. ( So magnificent! Much fun! )

I feel especially lucky that the next eclipse, 7 years from now, is swinging by even closer to where I live. The group has a lot of time to plan between now and then. My kid will be college-aged then! Hopefully he will still be nerdy enough to want to see it.