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 RM> GG> What is routine sex?   I don't think I've ever tried that.

 RM>

 RM> It's "Routine" if you can't remember the specific
occasion at least

 RM> six months later. As an example, I can recall the sessions during

 RM> which both our kids (James is 8 months, Julia is 4 years) were

 RM> conceived. Definitely *not* routine.



 GG> Oh, you rented a trampoline for the event, huh?   



The Octopus at the show, actually. (The shooting gallery was busy.)

The crowd cheered like crazy.





 RM> Seeing conditions: Wait until the moon is out of the way (pretty

 RM> little thing, but a bloody nuisance). If you can't see the entire

 RM> teapot clearly, or if you can't see the Milky Way that it's

 RM> embedded in, go find a darker place. Dark adapt your eyes for at



 GG> Bugger, coz it is REALLY light here.  :-(



How close is the country? Can you get a hill between you and the

waste light?



 RM> least half an hour. Eat lots of carrots.



 GG> I tried that and it didn't work.  It still takes me a long long long

 GG> time to adapt to darkness.  Usually I'm totally blind.  :-/



Close your eyes and think of England.. no, belay that, you'd forget

all about astronomy if you started that. A fair chunk of dark

adapting happens in the first 15 minutes, and it improves more

gradually after that for another hour or two. But it has to be dark

all the time - you can't turn the car interior light on for just a

few seconds to find something, and you have to learn how to light

your fags with one hand firmly over your eyes. Dim red light is ok,

though, the dark vision cells in the eye aren't very red sensitive.



Oh, and you're supposed to *eat* the carrots, btw.



I read in an astro magazine of a loony who wanted to see a

particularly difficult planetary nebula, so he prepared for several

weeks. In daytime, he wore close fitting dark sunnies (this does

work: if you want good eyes tonight, avoid full sunlight today). He

ate lots of carrots, or their vitamin pill equivalent. By the time

he was ready, he could stalk cats in the dark. With his scope and

his oxygen 3 filter, he succeeded. There's something in that for

all of us, but I'm not sure what.





 RM> GG> ... I liked QWKRR128 so much, I married the programmer.  :-)

 RM> Already?? Where was my invitation?????

 GG> Well, we did live together for a year you know.  And we'd still be

 GG> living together if it weren't for such things as immigration laws.

 RM> Grump

 GG> Poor you!   We haven't had the CEREMONY yet, if that's what you mean.



When it happens, We Want Photos. Gifs, Tifs, Jpegs, Bmps, we're not fussy.



Cheers



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