So I missed the occultation of Venus by the moon / triple conjunction today, even though I've been watching Venus and Jupiter in the evening sky for a week now, when weather conditions permitted. There's a photo of it over at the Beagle Science Blog, though, so be sure to check it out. The Beeb has also posted some photos from amateur astronomers (under the predictable silly title of "the smiling sky"), so look there too, if it catches your fancy.
But I haven't been idle, today. Being left to my own devices, I've been working on updating some areas of the webstore, pretty much non-stop today. It was all my fault for thinking of LEGOTM this morning - this has resulted from going through and fixing a number of related listings on the site, finding images, creating descriptions, and the like. So it hasn't been a bad day's work. I've also done some domestic tasks, watched an episode of The Day the Universe Changed (Episode 2, 'In the Light of the Above', which tells of the fascinating aftermath of the fall of Rome, the retreat into the monasteries, and the weird monastic way of looking at the world, all thanks to Augustine) while folding laundry, flipped through the Mineralogical Record recent book called Mineral Identification: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Mineralogist', and now I'm settling in to a well-deserved aperitif, trying to decide whether or not I want any dinner.
And this is what happens, when I'm left to my own devices for long enough. Not stellar, but demonstrates a work ethic. Could be worse.
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