Eclipse Eclipsed

The things I did running around yesterday: dropped peppers off on people's porches, drove out to Barlett to pick up eclipse glasses for Mary Beth (I got some from someone at work but there were none for her! and I found out there's a place that makes 'em here and they were selling 'em outside their plant), and went back to Outdoors Inc. to pick up a bike carrier for the car. Then in the evening Mary Beth and I caught up on the new season of Rick and Morty by starting a free trial with sling (another episode went up last night so we'll be able to watch that but doubt we'll keep it after the week's up). And of course we watched the latest episode of Twin Peaks. A little sad getting the final confirmation that Bowie wasn't able to make it in the show, but it was still really good and I did enjoy how they worked in Phillip Jeffries.

Today was the big ol' day of the big ol' eclipse. While Memphis isn't in the path of the totality it's at least like 94% or something. So it was going to be a pretty good show. It started off a little earlier than expected and people were stretching to look up out the conference room windows. So I got a look and the moon was making its way about a quarter across or so. So I went outside with a group of people a little early to watch. We saw it move from about halfway across to three-quarters. Then the clouds started and only got more and more intense. So by the time it got to the totality (or at least as close as it got here) it was completely obscured. Ah well. What I did get the chance to see was pretty great. It did look a lot like a crescent moon, but more orange. It was kinda a neat effect as it covered more and we weren't in line for full coverage so it was a little off-center and we were getting kind of a lop-sided crescent. Mary Beth at least fared much better in midtown and didn't have cloud issues and got to see the whole thing. Okay, well that's my eclipse story. There you go!