I am home sick with the crud. That and I stopped taking allergy drugs early this season; normally I stop at Halloween, but we had a freeze and I was good for a few days before the last orgy of bugs, and dirt, and pollen, and bad terrible air. The migraine is eating active brain cells.

In news that does not suck, I am giving yet another talk at the library next month, then one at the planetarium. After the second talk I am taking the telescope completely apart, cleaning everything, adding a new light baffle and (hopefully) have it all together for viewing the sky in January.

In still other news that is going to either be the most awesome thing ever or the most awesome fail ever, I have a tiny older scope that I am going to convert to a cell phone lens. The goal of this is to let people look through the main scopes, and then use the smaller, older scope to put their cell phones up to the eyepiece and get a picture of the moon, or in spring Jupiter. The hope is that all the kids with their phones will post picts on social media and do out advertising for us in places that I may not know about. The thought of 40-50 kids flooding facebook with astrophotography images makes me wonder how well it will work out. I still have a bit of testing and planning over the winter, but I think I can pull this off.