I got lots to talk about today. I'll start with the total eclipse of the moon last night. I was hoping to see it from here in Santa Barbara, but it has been pretty cloudy and overcast the last few days and so I wasn't hopeful about the chances of seeing it from here. Thursday was on and off sunny and cloudy and about 90 minutes before moonrise the conditions didn't look very promising, so I left for LA, where my mom said it was relatively clear. Driving to LA, it was overcast most of the way, all the way to Thousand Oaks, so I was a little worried. I got to the SF Valley and got off the Freeway at Valley Circle around 6:25, about 15 minutes before local moonrise. I drove up Valley Circle north of Roscoe and turned up one of the canyon roads and parked at an east facing turnout at about 6:40, at local moonrise, but it was totally hazy, from the horizon to about 15 or 20 degrees above it, and it was kinda cold too. I was wearing shorts, of course. I was thinking like, oh man, I'm never gonna see the moon through all the haze. I was standing there looking out to the east into the haze. At about 6:55 pm, with the moon just 4 degrees above the horizon, and mostly eclipsed, I spotted it. I was surprised I could see it though all the haze. It was pretty cool. Just the upper limb was lit and it looked kinda eerie, as it was twilight, and so not dark enough that you could see the unlit part of the eclipsed moon. It became totally eclipsed at 7:19 as twilight was coming to a close. It was surprisingly bright for being totally eclipsed, but it was cool. Like you could see the whole moon and it looked round and all. Usually when it's a crescent moon, you can't see the unlit part, because they are truly unlit, but this time, there are unlit parts that you can see because light sneaks though the earth's atmosphere from the sun to the moon. Anyway, after mid-totality, I drove home to my parents house, about 5 minutes drive away. I watched the moon come out of totality a short while later.