buttercup

So this week I was stuck at work until really late at night due to Rabbit's babysitter being on vacation. I stayed with Rabbit all day (getting some work done at home during her too-short naps) then came into work around 6 p.m. and stayed until everything was done (luckily I have flexible hours and understanding bosses). This meant I was at work until 1 a.m. on Monday night. Boo, right? But NO, my friend, because I got to see the Geminid meteor showers -- excitement! I haven't seen a meteor shower since I was a geeky astronomy-oriented kid. I woke Ben up when I got home, and we went outside and turned into meteor-watching icicles. It was pretty cool. There weren't a lot of meteors (I think the peak was closer to 8 p.m.), but if we kind of watched the whole sky, we could see one maybe every minute or so. Neat.

Find out when you can catch the next show here. (I assume they'll update for 2005 when January rolls around, but that site has a bunch of cool info in addition to the meteor calendar.)