Thursday, August 31st

Around 9 PM I went out to the neighbor's seawall to check out the moon and Jupiter. The moon was half full, with Jupiter a few degrees north of it. The moon was so bright that Jupiter was hard to see, but it seemed to scintillate between orange and white. A large cloud moved into my line of sight after ten minutes or so, which got me super-pissed. I spent the remaining ten minutes of my observation attempting to form a Kamehame-Ha to blow up the moon and clear the surrounding clouds. Minimal success was achieved.

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Around 8:35 P.M., I went out to look over Sarasota Bay to the west. There was a thick cloud bank blocking the moon. I could still see it's crescent, but no stars or planets were visible. After about 10 minutes of waiting for the clouds to move, I heard rustling in the bushes. Knowing blood-thirsty badgers and mongeese lived in the area, I adorned my sword and shield. Searching about I spotted the bloodthirsty red eyes of a hungry mongoose-beast, and swung only to have my sword caught between his palms. I quickly kicked his chest in and went for the kill only to injure its shoulder. It let out a cry that attracted 3 more mongeese-beasts, which circled me in a menacing fashion. Knowing I was no match with sword and shield alone, I drew my spellbook and called forth two demon motorcycles from the netherworld. I totally jumped onto them both at the same time, one foot on each seat, and then wailed on my sword like a guitar. This instantly turned my sword into a chainsaw. I kicked the motorcycles into action and made a drive-by swing for the head of the largest mongoose-beast, messily decapitating him. This caused his allies to flee in fear, so I threw my shield down and jumped on it like a surf board, and then it magically turned into a missile, which I mounted and chased down the mongeese-beasts with. Once at point-blank range of a mongoose-beast, I did a totally sweet backflip off the missile, thrusting it forward and into the spine of my foe. While in the middle of my totally wicked sweet backflip, I drew my chainsaw and landed it right down the middle of the final beast, leaving only a corpse and a pile of their golden dubloons. Dubloons are totally sweet.

Friday, August 25th

At 8:31 I went out to the neighbor's seawall and looked towards the west over the bay. I couldn't see anything through the clouds but after 5 minutes or so the moon was visible. It was an extremely thin, orange crescent. It looked to be almost a perfect segment of a circle.

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This image of the M8 object is the Blue Lagoon nebula. The nebula spans a distance of about 30 light years. The green hues are alpha emissions from atomic hydrogen gas. Sulfur emissions are in red, and oxygen emissions are blue. The nebula serves as a birthplace for new stars.

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This is the Orion Nebula, or M42. It's visible by the naked eye, but the picture was taken with infrared to penetrate dust in the way by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The nebula is about 1500 light years away, and is a nursery for young stars. Although visible by the naked eye, it was not classified as a nebula until 1610.

Tuesday, August 15th

The moon was in what seemed to be the First quarter phase at around 9 a.m. EST.

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