Hi Gaelyne



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



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

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

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

conceived. Definitely *not* routine.



 GG> Hey Rod, have I been missing something, honey?   ;-)



you'll try bloody near anything, won't you!



 GG> BTW, I had been only using Gasson in the AVTECH echo, but earlier this

 GG> week I sent out messages on the other places I frequent (Internet

 GG> newsgroups, CBM Fidonet echos, a couple different BBS systems... the

 GG> magazines I write for...) that from 15 August forward I'm officially

 GG> using the name Gaelyne Gasson.



Touching. I'm touched (so I'm told, anyway)



 RM> I spotted two comets from the backyard tonight. Hale-Bopp is easy,

 RM> it's a binocular object at the moment



 GG> Cool!  My kids tried to one up me when I told them about seeing the

 GG> Southern Cross and told me that while I was gone they saw a comet.

 GG> Thanks to you (or someone on this echo), we also saw the comet, so they

 GG> didn't succeed in one-uping me.  :-)



If you want to one-up them instead, try Hale-Bopp, "Next Year's

Comet". It's still nearly a year away from best vis, but it can be

seen in 7x50 binocs already - I found it last night with a 3/8 moon

nearby. Check the astronomy mags in your newsagent for finder

charts. There's one in the July edition of "Astronomy" (the

American mag, "Comet Hyakutake Wrapup" headline). In brief, start

at the "Teapot" of Sagittarius, and go two and a bit teapot heights

straight up from the top of the teapot. Be careful, there are quite

a few other blobby things in that area - I was fooled for a while

by M16 or M17 (not sure which). The comet's tail isn't real conspic

at the moment, we're looking at it from nearly head on, and it's

still a fair way out. The blob is a little bit asymmetrical in

binocs, though.



Find it in the next few weeks, then when the kids gush at you next

year about the New Comet, you can say "You mean that one I saw last

year?"



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

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

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

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

least half an hour. Eat lots of carrots.



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



Already?? Where was my invitation?????



Grump



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