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I didn't have time to write anything today --- pinball stuff going on all evening --- so please enjoy, first, What's Going On In Judge Parker? Does Ces have some family issue we don't know about? August - October 2024 and then more Cedar Point Eclipse Day pictures, to wit:
Couple of people walking under the Giant Wheel. I like the line the tops of their heads make here.
Just checking with the eclipse glasses ... yeah, that's the Sun up there yet.
Getting our first ride of the season in on Calypso, a ride they somehow failed to rename E-Calypso for the day! I know, right?
Looking out on the Wild Mouse from E-Calypso's loading area.
Couple of people checking the time and looking to see what the sun was doing. There would be so much of this all day, naturally.
47 minutes to go!
We peeked into the gift shop. This is a sort of Ferris Wheel-based trinkets holder we usually see at Halloweekends, but it was nice as a piece of art anyway.
Shirts for, among other things, Top Thrill 2, which was only weeks away from opening and then closing for the season. There were also some Total Eclipse of the Point T-shirts that were in unpopular and unwearable sizes, left over from a mad dash that bought them all in seconds.
Now you know what this is? We went out to the car to get the tripod and pick a spot to be ready for totality.
Because ... do you see it? Beta was chipped on one side!
Maybe this will convince you: the light is suddenly turning all weird and people have set up tripods all over the entry area here.
And there it is! ... Also this is about as good a focus as I ever managed! Sorry! If I knew how to manually set the focus at infinity I would have! I have only had this camera eight years or something!
Trivia: Johnson Space Center Building 17 houses the Space Food Systems Laboratory, including a test kitchen, food processing laboratory, food packing laboratory, and an analytical laboratory. Source: NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection: Redefining the Right Stuff, David J Shayler, Colin Burgess. And yet Mission Control gets put in Building 30, when you'd think they would have built that closer to first since, I mean, some of those early flights you could just have a big breakfast the morning of.
Currently Reading: Miscellaneous comic books.
