We missed it
Wednesday night’s lunar eclipse, that is. Wednesday was all thunderstormy here in Houston, and that evening the sky was still thickly overcast. I couldn’t even tell where the moon was supposed to be. Le sigh.
I haven’t seen a lunar eclipse that I can remember, but I did get to see a partial solar eclipse in elementary school. The teachers handed out dark paper glasses, but there weren’t enough, and I didn’t have anyone to share with. Instead I looked at the crescents on the ground where the sunlight shone through the trees. Still pretty nifty.
On an unrelated note, I heard my first political ad on the radio yesterday. Of course the national news has been bloated for months with coverage of the presidential race and all the money the candidates are spending on advertising, but by gosh, nobody’s been pouring any of that money into Texas. Shocking!
Texas is usually uninteresting as far as national elections go, being rather the opposite of a swing state, but now that the Democratic primary race is getting tight (and because we have a non-super-Tuesday primary), we’ve started to get a little attention. The radio ad was Obama’s, as was a huge Toyota Center rally, and Bill Clinton stopped by a Hillary rally at UH Wednesday night.
I feel sorry for the swing-staters out there. I’m about ready to bash my radio in after hearing daily updates on these freaking campaigns, and those are only news segments. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be inundated with ads from the campaigns themselves for a year and a half. Blech.
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