Looking Forward (and looking up)
Jun. 9th, 2004 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
major_clangerIt occurred to me in the shower this morning.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
As in proper, normal, litigation (or prospect of it) free life that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bugshaw and I haven't enjoyed since the end of December 1999. But, as bugshaw reports, yesterday the final paperwork was signed ending our legal battle with her stepmother. It still hasn't really sunk in, but I'm sure it will soon, if only when my subconscious notices the absence of regular thick envelopes from solicitors.
Yesterday also of course notable as Transit of Venus. I dug out my 1999 eclipse solar viewer and was rewarded with a small spot visible on the sun: a planet, seen as a perceptible disc with the naked eye. At work, one of my technicians who's a keen astronomer had brought in a small telescope with a proper front-end solar filter, so we took turns admiring the view as the morning progressed. Why couldn't we have had weather like that on 11 Aug 1999?
MC
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
As in proper, normal, litigation (or prospect of it) free life that
bugshaw and I haven't enjoyed since the end of December 1999. But, as bugshaw reports, yesterday the final paperwork was signed ending our legal battle with her stepmother. It still hasn't really sunk in, but I'm sure it will soon, if only when my subconscious notices the absence of regular thick envelopes from solicitors.Yesterday also of course notable as Transit of Venus. I dug out my 1999 eclipse solar viewer and was rewarded with a small spot visible on the sun: a planet, seen as a perceptible disc with the naked eye. At work, one of my technicians who's a keen astronomer had brought in a small telescope with a proper front-end solar filter, so we took turns admiring the view as the morning progressed. Why couldn't we have had weather like that on 11 Aug 1999?
MC
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You always were the better astronomer
Date: 2004-06-09 11:37 pm (UTC)I was bad, and only watched it via the BBC (TV and Web) because of a minor crisis yesterday morning that interrupted my plans to set up some bins. Ho, hum.
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Date: 2004-06-10 06:21 am (UTC)http://www.glam.ac.uk/news/releases/001797.php
Was great to see people just stopping by for a quick look.