Thursday, October 11, 2007

So I am roasting...

...because I was dancing (just before bed, I know, I know). But I always get the urge to dance once it is late. I don't know why, but I just do. Mind you the mood can strike me any time of the day or night, but I really like dancing just before bed. It may be due to procrastination, as much as I like to sleep and dream, I also love staying up, even when I shouldn't. So yeah, some of the night dancing might be due to the immature need to fly in the face of authority (even if its mine LOL) and do what I want even though I really should be doing something else.
Ok enough of that.

What I really wanted to share was about how I am roasting now that I have been dancing a bit. Way too warm to be able to lay down and sleep. So I figure, I'll go outside and cool off. Its basically mid-October, my favorite month, and its nice and cool out. We had a little sprinkle of rain at supper time, enough to leave the grass wet because its too cool and humid for it to evaporate. So instead of heading up to bed I go out on the deck and look up at the stars and I see a plane almost directly overhead. As I am looking at it, out of the corner of my eye, to the left, I see a bright flash of light! So I look over, just in time to see what must have been a meteorite streaking through the sky. The tail lasted about a second or two before fading, the body that made it I barely saw before its light was extinguished. But wow, what a nice treat, and all I went out to do was to cool off! This happened at approximately 10:45pm MDT just above the tail of the dipper (in the north), streaking from the north to the west.
So after that I watched another, higher plane pass by, this time heading east (the first had been heading west) and they almost passed along the same line in the sky. I wonder how close they were when they passed each other up there. And this time I was walking around, barefoot of course, and in shorts and a t-shrit, in the wet grass. It was very calm out there, little to no breeze and just the sound of the planes overhead and a few dogs barking in the distance. Noticed a few of them started barking just after the meteorite disappeared, wonder if they noticed it? LOL

Anyhow, I am off to get ready for bed. I have to be up early again tomorrow. I have my First Aid training again. Got 100% on my test today, hopefully it will be the same tomorrow. Oh and I think I will take the AED (automated external defibrillator) training too, even though I didn't originally sign up for it. It seems to make sense to have it, its only an additional $20 to take it, so what the Hel.

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