I woke up a half-hour ago, having finally got to sleep about 18:00, I think it was... I remembered that I hadn't uploaded yesterday's entry since I really wanted to write some more. I went outside and damn! it was clear! I stood for about five minutes looking up, but no meteors did I see. Kinda hazy, and the city lights really blow it for seeing the numerous smaller ones.
Another look outside... even hazier than a half-hour ago. Jupiter is there in all it's glory... or is it Saturn? O'well, one of those big planets... it's really visible, and I can make out Cassiopeia barely... need to get away from this town and the lights to do any real looking up.
But right now, I think that I'll go back to bed, and get up when Karen does.
22:37...
But she wasn't mad at me, because she forgot about it too until after she had lunch, so I got off OK this time.
She has to work tomorrow anyway, dammit, so no star-gazing tonight. I'm pretty tired from being up all day anyway... and my main purpose, I think, was to go out and be under the stars with Karen... I've seen meteors aplenty, after all, but I'll never get to see enough of Karen...
I did get some running around done today... I got a PS-2 port from a new computer store that I'd never been to before, looks like a pretty neat place. I also got some cable to hook Karen's machine up in the dining room... she does not seem very enthusiastic about it now, though, for some reason.
Kansas is in the national spotlight. The way has been cleared for the schools to teach creationism. Essentially, they won't mandate teaching evolution, which is the main foundation of the biological sciences. There are approved portions of the scientific theories that they are allowed to teach, but local school boards will decide how it gets put together.
The xians must feel that their faith will suffer from knowing the truth.
And they are correct. I think, however, that they need to keep their ignorance to themselves... in their homes and in their tax-free churches.
Look for another Scopes trial in the near future. Kansas... leading the way in... in...
Y'know, it hurts people to joke about their religion... but if they take it seriously, everyone involved gets hurt. Time and time and time again, humanity tries to drag itself out of the muck of gods (or rather, of men acting, supposedly, for those gods) and the suction of that muck won't allow even a single step onto the terra firma of logic.
It won't happen in my lifetime, dammit.
More tomorrow...
Yep, and I did get up when Karen did... and I told her that I'd meet her for lunch, and then I forgot about it.