I know the window is dirty. My apartment is in a basement. All the dirt is on the outside not in here.
Spot woke me up with her yowling and pawing at the window. Now I'm proud of myself for not being surly or snapping at her. I just got up, looked outside and discovered Spotclone resting under Olympics Guy's pickup truck.
I didn't realize there were two cats until I took the picture!
raddidge spotted this little flower in the backyard and it's recently blossomed
There were hot air balloons in the sky. Of course they're nothing new. During the first autumn at this job I would always see ballons rising up in the distance. Figure they were around Powers or further east. Now there were balloons 100 yards from me!
Of course I immediately became a traffic hazard while I cursed the fact that once again I didn't bring along my camera. So I drove to work and ignored the sight.
IS NEPTUNE A PLANET?
Consider this: According to the IAU, for a world to be a planet, it must "clear the neighborhood around its orbit" of competing bodies. How does a planet go about cleaning up? Simple. It uses its gravity to gobble up or fling away anything in its vicinity.
This is a problem for Pluto. Pluto's "neighborhood" is cluttered with innumerable icy asteroid-like bodies called "Kuiper Belt Objects." Pluto's gravity is not quite strong enough to get rid of them. Thus, according to the IAU, Pluto is not a planet.
But wait! This is a problem for Neptune, too. Pluto itself crosses the orbit of Neptune. So, Neptune has not yet cleaned up its own neighborhood. Does this mean that Neptune is not a planet? Think about it.
I went to take a much-needed leak in the basement bathroom. This apartment had an odd layout. There were two rooms and a closet. Our bedroom which was small and a stairway which led downstairs to the bathroom which was slightly bigger than my bathroom in waking life.
Two guys came into the apartment and demanded that we go outside right now. I was in my socks and underwear busy making my bladder gladder. Heck I don't think I could've stopped pissing and I don't remember when but I know I did because now I was crouching at the bottom of the stairs acting all modest. Eventually raddidge threw a robe down to me and I came upstairs.
The back of the house opened to the beach which looked like a moonscape. Either meteors had hit or kids were building craters out of the sand. The ocean made an appearance but it was completely black and featureless. I couldn't hear the crashing of the waves nor could I see any whitecaps but the ocean was still there stretching out and blending into the horizon.
