Monday, January 21, 2019

Lunar Eclipse Night

So last night I stayed up late to watch the lunar eclipse, which was very cool. And the temp outside was very cool too; 43 degrees and windy. Just a few wisps of clouds here and there, otherwise the skies were clear. I tried to take some pictures but I don't have a good zoom or night setting on my phone, still I'm happy with what I got.  But I know what I'm going to spend the remains of my Amazon gift card on; clip on lenses for my phone. 





Here's a picture just as the eclipse was starting. You can see the little wisps of clouds around. The blue dot is an after image from the camera lens. Definitely need to have some night photo software on my phone to filter the light properly. Anyone have any suggestions?





I took this picture at near totality, although you can't guess that from the image. The little bit of light not covered up yet really reflected in the shot. But I'm really happy that you can see the blood moon coloration in the picture. I used the new tripod I got with the right piece to hold my phone or it would have been even fuzzier. More zoom needed here. 

So I'm just wondering, how many of you reading out there are bored? And what do you do to ease that feeling? I like my job a lot but when I'm home, there just isn't anything that is interesting and captivating. It's not that I don't have anything to do because believe me I have plenty that needs to be done, but precious little of it is intriguing or challenging. Now I do know that not everything in life can be that way, there's nothing intriguing about cleaning a toilet after all. But when Sandra was alive, those mundane tasks were made easier to do while having an intriguing conversation. Now that I'm a party of one, I'm finding it harder and harder to get boring tasks done. 

I've tried the "reward yourself" with something after you get a chore done. I've tried checklists but crossing things off as done isn't much of a motivation to do them for me. Just not sure how to go about finding something that is intriguing to think about during the evenings and days off. It's like "Sherlock Holmes" syndrome, I think. I need some conundrum or puzzle to work on and like Sherlock, I'm truly missing my Dr. Watson.






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