So, the eclipse happened. We saw about 20 minutes at the start, we saw every cloud in the sky converge on the moon, and then we saw the last 3-5 minutes of totality and the whole end of the umbra phase. We made the news, ALL of the news channels ran a story on us. at one point we had over 150 people in lawn chairs, sitting on blankets and asking a million questions... IT WAS AWESOME. We hit 12,000 outreach contacts for the year. We got invited to do a "star tour" this month that looks to have about 1500-2000 people attending; they are going to turn off the street lights and we also get to sneak in a talk on light pollution while we show off Neptune, Uranus, a few brighter galaxies and who knows what else. On top of that, the local library wants me to do a talk on how to buy a telescope at (for now) two branches, maybe 5 in total depending on how the first couple go. My "merry band of weirdos with telescopes" has reached the level of success that the old guys in the club are grumpy and jealous that they did not get off their ass for 5-7 years and grow the club.

The other thing that is going on this week is that the US health care system sucks. I use a CPAP machine in order to sleep and I need to get a new one. I can only go one place if I want my insurance to handle it, it is 7x more expensive than anywhere online I've found, and I can only "rent" the unit (after the rental period I own the device). And on top of that the one place I can go is being a dick about scheduling the appointment to pick the damn thing up. Too bad I need this shit to not go mental and actually function at work.

Finally, Emergency server upgrades on an accelerated testing schedule. So, staying up until 3AM Monday, 12 hour day Monday starting at 0730, odd sleep and I've not freaked out yet. Life is good.