We need its light

My humor blog this week has been a lot of memoir and my being a little weird, and here's your chance to see it.

• MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 11
• In a Way There Are Dozens of Novels I’m Working on Not Writing at Any Moment
• Statistics Saturday: Some Popular and Unpopular Dates for Halloween
• Also We Need to Have More Not-Disappointing Comets, Could We Arrange Them?
• I, of Course, Always Write the +4 and Need to Be Restrained From Listing the Country Too
• What’s Going On In Judge Parker? Does Ces have some family issue we don’t know about? August – October 2024
• I Don’t Know How Many Times This Has Happened to Me
• MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 12

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And now, on Eclipse Day at Cedar Point? You know what's happening?

It's Totality! Why else would there be blurry birds all over the place?

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Don't believe me? Here's the best picture I came up with of the Moon passing in front of the Sun. Again, if I knew how to set my camera right for this I would have.

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Here's the eclipsed sun, I swear, and Venus!

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Silhouette of GateKeeper and Blue Streak against the horizon that's still bright despite the overhead sky being dark.

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Seagulls swooping in to roost, just like the books said they would do in the sudden darkness.

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Looking towards the GateKeeper station and the ticket booths for Cedar Point, to the east.

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Cedar Point turned off most of its lights for totality, but left the gate sign on.

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Oh, maybe this is an even better shot of the Moon eclipsing the Sun, technically.

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And now it's already ending, with the Moon going back to not noticeable around here.

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While totality has ended and it's become very bright again, the sun is still partially eclipsed. But the sun is so bright we could try to go back to normal, still, shaken by how weird that all was.

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Here's the Cedar Point gate back to normal lighting conditions, more or less.

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First ride of GateKeeper in the post-eclipse world!

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Trivia: At the fifth Lateran council called by Pope Leo X in 1512, Paul of Middelburg was called to set up a council proposing calendar reform; the council closed in 1517 without the matter being discussed. Source: Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History, EG Richards.

Currently Reading: Comics, but to be honest, I didn't have much reading time the last couple days.