It's a total eclipse of ....err...well it is a 70% eclipse....err...it's a day off.

So yesterday we took the day off to see the eclipse. We had the glasses that I talked about and we went with a few friends to Valentino Pier in Red Hook.

This is the pier in Red Hook named after Louie Valentino who was I guy I went to school with all through grammar school and High School. His dad was a big deal in the ILA which was the longshoreman's union. One of my greatest regrets is that I didn't go in the union like he asked. I could have gotten involved in the union and stolen a huge pile of money.

There were a huge amount of people. Well a couple of hundred anyway. Kids. Dogs. Lawn Chairs. It was a party. Everyone looked up at the eclipse. Total strangers fell into conversation. While their dogs pissed on kids. Or their kids pissed on dogs. You see parents don't pay any attention to their freaking kids. The pet owners pay way more attention. They just don't care where their dogs shit or piss. New York. I gotta get out of here.

After 4 o'clock pretty much everyone left and we sat down and had lunch. It is beautiful there. The sea air was beautiful. It was war. I was looking out at the water. I turned to my wife and said "Why aren't we doing this every day instead of only where there is a freakin' eclipse of the sun."

"Dedication: Octopus spent nearly 4 1/2 years sitting on her eggs"

"How does she do it? That’s the question scientists are asking after observing an octopus caring for her eggs for 53 months. That’s a record gestation period, they say, for any animal species."

The octopus generally does not feed while brooding, but most don’t brood anywhere near as long.

“The principal question now remaining,” they write, (link) “is how does the mother survive for so long?”

 

via Washington Post