What's everyone up to right now?

[Astreja]

Drove out to the Glenlea Observatory for a meeting of what turned out to be the Orion M42 Nebula Appreciation Society.     Including me and my 15x70 binoculars (and terminally wonky tripod with one leg that insisted on falling off every time I moved it), there must've been at least 10 viewing rigs set up and at least half the crowd were looking at Orion at some point during the evening.

I got four different views of the nebula (large 'scope in the dome, a Dobsonian, my binos and an "I think that spot right there is it" naked-eye view); mapped out Auriga, Canis Major and Gemini; and got to see a conjunction of Venus and Mercury just after sunset.  I think I also saw the Pleiades but wasn't up to sketching all of Taurus, which is a rather busy constellation.

Tried to map Leo but it was just rising and had a severe case of the tilts, which gave me a severe case of the tilts.  By that time my feet were cold and damp from tromping around on the snowy ground, so I headed home for a nice cup of tea.

[Little lunch]

Finally getting home from work after being hijacked into an additional 3 hrs on top of 9.
All good, made an extra $150 and picked up three new clients.
Just waiting on a ham, mushroom and pineapple pizza in the oven, shoes off, toes wriggling in the carpet like Bruce Willis in Diehard.
All I gotta do is stay awake and not burn the house down.

[c172]

Listening to transmissions leading up to the crash of the helicopter into the East River.

[Astreja]

I think there's a strong possibility that no one in the entirety of Winnipeg did what I did tonight: Spent an hour making micro-adjustments to half a dozen alto clarinet reeds with a reed-shaving tool.

[c172]

I seem to have stomach flu.

[Angrboda]

Watching football talk on TV and softening up some popsicles. I'm having trouble sleeping.

[Jackalope]

Just got back on my.last leg (Mexico City to Portland). Tired. Bed.

[Cod]

Not much really, just watching some videos on woodwork.

[Fireball]

Not much really, just watching some videos on woodwork.

What kind of wood working do you do?

[Antares]

Taking a quick break. On my way to Shy Town.


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