Bad Moon Rising
28/08/2007 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeina"Blessed are those who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed"
Izzie's gotten into the very bad habit lately of looking forward to things with the greatest expectations and anticipation only to be left most mightily peeved indeed
And today was no exception. Was so delighted when the recent roster came out and today's was a morning shift. That meant full steam ahead for our grand full moon plans. And an eclipse at moonrise just added to the anticipation
Aside from the usual wine, cheese and crackers for a moonshine picnic, this one had the extra special ingredient of two tasty little mooncakes. The Chinese moon festival is in September but that's no reason not to have one in August as well.
But by Friday the outlook was looking decidedly dodgy. Rain, rain and more rain forecast for the whole week. Got to thinking - just typical. If the Izzie had been doing an afternoon shift, would have been a most glorious sunny day.
Such a strange year. Izzie misses a lot of full moon rises due to all those evening shifts but this year has been the lousiest in a long time for the ones that were during work free days. Even January - in the middle of summer over here, it was cloudy.
So, with the odd shower and intermittent spells of sunshine this afternoon, had to decide whether to stay lurking around the Lair and just not bother or to take a chance and visit the east end of downtown Dursleyville. Had already figured that there was no point at all in sticking to the original and long looked forward to plan of visiting Memorial Hill in Fremantle with the wonderful 360 degree view of the horizon
Decided that staying at home with the clouds clearing up would be worse than taking a chance at a peek and missing out if the clouds ended up staying. Like - there'll always be another moonrise next month but lunar eclipses visible from this part of Oz are much much rarer
Well. It was not only overcast at 5,50pm but was also raining too and not only was there no bright pink orange fiery ball to be seen but hardly even a glimmer of a whitish blob until two hours later
Normally the Izzie would not get in such a tizzy about such a minor matter. But the old pilot light is barely flickering these days. Since getting that nasty bug the other week, been feeling zapped and zonked ever since
Even Sunday which was the local university's annual open day was not the source of delight that it usually is. Had requested the day off ages ago and had the grandest plans. Getting up at 9am and being there for the 10am start of activities. This time the Izzie would finally get around to doing the spaghetti bridge challenge and lurk around the labs.
But woke up feeling like doing nothing more than turning off the alarm and having another snooze. Did no such thing of course - giving up a Sunday to just curl up in bed would be just too outrageously decadent and wasteful.
Did go and look at some of those interesting things but arriving at 12am instead of 10 as originally intended. Could objectively look at all the fascinating stuff - especially the solar panel powered pumps that were working even while the sun was nowhere to be seen behind the clouds or the totally cool hexagonal shaped chess board designed to be played by three players
But the old quirky inquisitive streak and the absolute absorption was just not there. Instead was sort of a sad nostalgia from the five years spent lurking there back from 2000 - 2004
And once again did not get around to making that spaghetti bridge but only just looked.
Getting sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. Maybe is time to pay another visit to the doc and see if there's any physical explanation of this strange state. Maybe age and those spare tyres are catching up with us
Izzie's gotten into the very bad habit lately of looking forward to things with the greatest expectations and anticipation only to be left most mightily peeved indeed
And today was no exception. Was so delighted when the recent roster came out and today's was a morning shift. That meant full steam ahead for our grand full moon plans. And an eclipse at moonrise just added to the anticipation
Aside from the usual wine, cheese and crackers for a moonshine picnic, this one had the extra special ingredient of two tasty little mooncakes. The Chinese moon festival is in September but that's no reason not to have one in August as well.
But by Friday the outlook was looking decidedly dodgy. Rain, rain and more rain forecast for the whole week. Got to thinking - just typical. If the Izzie had been doing an afternoon shift, would have been a most glorious sunny day.
Such a strange year. Izzie misses a lot of full moon rises due to all those evening shifts but this year has been the lousiest in a long time for the ones that were during work free days. Even January - in the middle of summer over here, it was cloudy.
So, with the odd shower and intermittent spells of sunshine this afternoon, had to decide whether to stay lurking around the Lair and just not bother or to take a chance and visit the east end of downtown Dursleyville. Had already figured that there was no point at all in sticking to the original and long looked forward to plan of visiting Memorial Hill in Fremantle with the wonderful 360 degree view of the horizon
Decided that staying at home with the clouds clearing up would be worse than taking a chance at a peek and missing out if the clouds ended up staying. Like - there'll always be another moonrise next month but lunar eclipses visible from this part of Oz are much much rarer
Well. It was not only overcast at 5,50pm but was also raining too and not only was there no bright pink orange fiery ball to be seen but hardly even a glimmer of a whitish blob until two hours later
Normally the Izzie would not get in such a tizzy about such a minor matter. But the old pilot light is barely flickering these days. Since getting that nasty bug the other week, been feeling zapped and zonked ever since
Even Sunday which was the local university's annual open day was not the source of delight that it usually is. Had requested the day off ages ago and had the grandest plans. Getting up at 9am and being there for the 10am start of activities. This time the Izzie would finally get around to doing the spaghetti bridge challenge and lurk around the labs.
But woke up feeling like doing nothing more than turning off the alarm and having another snooze. Did no such thing of course - giving up a Sunday to just curl up in bed would be just too outrageously decadent and wasteful.
Did go and look at some of those interesting things but arriving at 12am instead of 10 as originally intended. Could objectively look at all the fascinating stuff - especially the solar panel powered pumps that were working even while the sun was nowhere to be seen behind the clouds or the totally cool hexagonal shaped chess board designed to be played by three players
But the old quirky inquisitive streak and the absolute absorption was just not there. Instead was sort of a sad nostalgia from the five years spent lurking there back from 2000 - 2004
And once again did not get around to making that spaghetti bridge but only just looked.
Getting sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. Maybe is time to pay another visit to the doc and see if there's any physical explanation of this strange state. Maybe age and those spare tyres are catching up with us
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Date: 2007-08-28 10:46 pm (UTC)Sorry to hear you missed the blood moon rising. I did manage to see the moon at the height of the eclipse. I didn't see the moon rising because my horizon to the east has a wall of buildings and trees in the road.
Lots of people in Sydney went to Observatory Hill to have a lunar picnic. It was a beautifully clear night and the temperature for still supposedly Winter was above 20 Deg C for most of the evening so it was a lovely night for it here.
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Date: 2007-08-29 11:54 am (UTC)That's the bit that you don't realise about bad health - it's not just bits and pieces behaving badly but the lack of energy and enthusiasm that it can cause that is one of the main problems - especially for those with very long 'to do' lists
Oh and lost count of the number of critters at work who asked if the Izzie enjoyed the eclipse last night knowing full well that it was a monumental wash out.
And we got treated to all those pretty piccies from over east just to rub it in. But turns out that there's another star gazing werewolf at work who was also most peeved indeed that our parade got so mightily pissed on.
Not much of an eastern horizon here at all so that's why we got to get a bus to find a good spot.
Funny - first started moon watching back in 2001. Remembered sitting out in the garden in December that year with a glass of red in hand admiring the big fat juicy full moon and then wondering where the hell it had disappeared to. Turned out to be another eclipse. But it would never be as impressive as at moonrise or when setting.
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Date: 2007-08-29 12:13 pm (UTC)The next lunar eclipse is in 2011. I hope to be still around to see it. I've always been fascinated with the moon, perhaps not so much as you. Perhaps it is because I'm a Cancerian.