Back to work after 4 days in Mexico City and I have no idea about what I did here last week and what I am supposed to do today.
Listening to the Dead after a long time. Feels so so good!!!
People usually say that as a young person, they were idealistic liberal and then turn into crabby old “get off my lawn” kind of conservative as they aged. My experience has been quite the opposite. I was much more conservative when I was young and now I have become a card-carrying liberal.
The totality lasted only for 3 minutes and 33 seconds but the whole eclipse went on for about two and half hours. Fortunately, I was at a spot where I could observe and photograph it from start to finish. Here is the whole total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 compressed in a one minute video.
Blue and green stained glass windows from La Sagrada Familia - Antoni Gaudi’s famous church in Barcelona.
🚴 Another 70F day and another afternoon bike ride.
What a glorious day for a bike ride. It was our first 70F day of this year.
Both the kids have secured summer internships involving lab-based research. It will be good for them to figure out if they will want to do this kind of stuff in graduate school and pursue as a career.
We stayed with our friends in Albany and drove up to Plattsburgh, NY to view the eclipse. Took us just over 2 hours going up there and on the way back it was five and half hours to Albany. There were so many cars on the road with bumper-to-bumper stop-and-go traffic. We had 3-4 bars of signal on the phone but, music streaming stopped and we couldn’t do anything on the phone that needed data. Never experienced network congestion like this before. There were probably 4-5 times the usual number of users on the network and it came to a grinding halt.
From all the photos taken during the total Solar eclipse on Monday, this one is my most favorite. It shows some corona but if you zoom in at the bottom half of the photo, the solar prominences and Bailey’s beads are so striking!
For those who don’t know what Bailey’s beads are… these are the small specks of light coming through the lunar craters and valleys as the Sun emerges from totality.
