The moon last night was beautiful. As I drove out of my apartment complex on my way to the rock gym, the tiny crescent caught my eye and I had to stop and take a picture. Of course my camera (the real one, not the phone one) doesn’t do it justice, and so I didn’t bother posting it. But it was really pretty. Just past new moon, a very slight crescent, with the rest of the moon lit up by earthshine. Very cool.
I was just looking at the photo I posted via my phone yesterday, and it makes me look like I have a crooked front tooth. Weird. Must be the light. My front teeth are perfectly fine, except for being a little chipped for the past 10 or so years. But that can be blamed on my brother Brian.
I was really tired last night, and so I didn’t climb anything too hard, and was even slipping on routes that are usually easier for me. Ah well. It was just Jason and me, and he seemed a bit tired too, so we probably chatted as much as we actually climbed. At Waffle House afterwards we ended up talking politics; well, actually, I think I ended up not shutting up, and thus it was me talking while he listened. Jason and I disagree on a lot of issues (he’s conservative, I’m not as much so), but I still enjoy talking politics with him. I also ended up talking about Bush and Iraq with Gavin yesterday in a nice normal conversation. This leads me to believe that it’s not that I can’t or don’t like to discuss the issues, as I’ve said many times before…it’s just that I prefer to do it with people who remain very calm and rational even if you disagree with them. Who knew?
Dude. The rocks at the Opportunity landing site on Mars were apparently not merely altered by water, they were likely formed by water. That is so cool.
