Sounds like ya had a good seat and a good time too. :-)
Heads up to your son,, we get a total solar eclipse
August 1, 2008.
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/solar.html
Projection of the lunar eclipse on a radome covers a observatory in Bochum Sundern, western Germany, Saturday, March 3, 2007. Despite bad weather conditions sometimes visitors are able to observe the entire shading of the moon at midnight for approximately 70 minutes. The next lunar eclipse will be seen in Central Europe in February 2008. (AP Photo/Volker Wiciok)
In Cali? I may just head out for it. There is nothing quite like a celestial event out West. You cannot get away from light pollution in CT.
And there will still be three months to the election!!
BTW, thanks for the post, Norm and for all the great posts you put up. We all could follow your example.