Why do they hold astronomy shows during the day?

[dianec42]

Today we drove down to Oceanside for an astronomy expo. (Well, Stuart drove. It gets us there faster.) We did not win any of the Fabulous Drawing Prizes; I'm a bit relieved we didn't win anything huge. (Our #1 question for telescope vendors today: Will it fit in a Mini?) We didn't even buy anything, for a change.

Once the morning clouds burned off it got sunny and quite warm. The one thing we did bring back was his-n-hers mild sunburns. :-)

All in all, a great day out. I managed to stay fairly religiously low-carb, and did a hell of a lot of walking, both of which can only help.

In other news, Carmageddon seems to have emphatically failed to come to pass. Traffic on our bit of the 405 was the lightest I've ever seen it, and I've seen similar reports from closer to the affected area. Huzzah!

Comments

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

Since Carmageddon appears to have failed to appear this time, will Carmageddon appear next year when they replace the other bridge?

[whc.livejournal.com]

Carmageddon sounds a lot like the predicted traffic meltdown for the '84 olympics. Traffic was actually BETTER during the olympics, since the prediction of a mess prompted people to take out of town vacations during the olympics.