These are not mine a contact on Flickr found them. I covet.
"prints by big eye art masters Lee, Eden, and Maio--99 cents each at my local Goodwill! "
Tonight (6th), shortly after sunset if your sky is dark enough around 9:30pm (UT*), you should see Saturn, Mar and Regulus all lined up in the western sky. Below them and to the left will be a crescent Moon (around 18% showing).
Tuesday (8th) sees the first peak of the Capricornids meteor shower. It has a ZHR* of 5. Not ideally suited for the high northern latitudes (the UK) being very low down in the south/south-east.
Wednesday (9th) sees Jupiter reach opposition. From the UK Jupiter is very low down in the south.
Thursday (10th) has Mars passing within 40 arcminutes of Saturn in the western sky. For comparison the full Moon has an angular size of around 30 arcminutes (or half a degree).
The southern sky as seen from the UK:
* UT is Universal Time and is exactly the same as GMT (1 hour behind BST).
* ZHR is the expected number of meteors you could see under perfect conditions with the radiant (point of origin) directly over head.
June seems to be the month for baby birds in our part of the world. The starling population exploded from what we counted last month (six to thirty). Jackdaws, greenfinches, dunnocks and song thrushes have all had their fledglings out. Seeing the adult and two fledgling song thrushes was good but not as exciting as seeing the great tit family. Five of them in total visited our peanut feeder one evening.
We didn't see any goldfinches, linnets or robins this month but did see the great tits, a wren and a pied wagtail, none of which we saw last month. So still fifteen different species spotted during June with the total number of individuals rising to 107! There are swallows and house martins swooping around outside as well but they never stop in our garden.
And the anal graph part time:
We had a good session last night, well up until the point BP lost his connection. Unfortunately it happened near the end of the adventure - another twenty minutes and we would have been done. On the other hand it was a convenient cliff-hanger. One character caught in a snare and swinging gently upside down a few feet above the ground and another character held from behind with a knife to his throat. They sure pick the right moments to stop :-)
I'm still not convinced by the combat rules and they still need a bit of work. The players seem happy with the principle though so that's good. I've removed damage rolls and instead award damage based on well the character's hit. The higher the hit roll, the better the hit, the more damage done. They've also caught on to the fact that double-teaming an opponent makes the opponent easier to hit. So they definitely like the new rules I just need to get a better balance between damage, health and chances of hitting.
I don't know if you've heard, but Yahoo has run out of email addresses. They have to be so cryptic now in order to even get one that they've done something about it. They've created two other extensions - @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com - both of which are pretty easy to remember.
Today I went and reserved my full name as a @ymail.com address so now I have something a bit more professional if I ever need it. I remember when I was trying to apply for jobs - AGES ago it seems - I always was a bit embarrassed about giving out my, then, email address. It was totally complicated: maura_ea_celelstin[at]yahoo.com and no one ever seemed to get it right the first time. While my new @yahoo.com email address is easier to relay it's still not very professional.
I decided to try and snag Paul's full name too (he's actually applying for jobs right now), but unfortunately it wasn't available on either of the new extensions. I got crafty though and just added an underscore between the first and last night and it worked :) Shocking how many Paul's there are though!
Kind of off topic, but can anyone suggest a name that has "link" in it? Paul and I were jokingly considering names with "link" in it (such as Lincoln) so we could give our son that as a middle name and call him Link like out of the Zelda Nintendo games! I know it probably makes all of you guys gag - but I really want to give my kids interesting stories for their names - without giving them really strange names. Case in point: My practically-brother Jose named his daughter Harley-Quinn from the Batman series. I think Harley is a pretty good name for a girl, easy to spell and pronouce, but now she's got a pretty cool story to go along with her name.
Anyhow, you bunch think about it and get back to me :P
So it's illegal for you to sell your vote, but if your a politician your expected to sell yours once you have been elected, to every special interest group out there, sounds logical to me.
