OutdoorType

My Twitter feed is locked (mostly – you can always see the latest in blog’s sidebar), so here’s a recap of this morning’s micro-live blogging of my early morning voting experience (in chronological order – times as of 5:15pm or so):

• Going to bed now (so I can get up at 5am, head to my polling place, and vote for Obama)   about 19 hours ago from MoodBlast  
• In line to vote, Burke, Va. First people arrived 4:55am. Guessing ~250+ ahead of me. Bailout time = 7:15, then I have to hit the road.   about 11 hours ago from Twittelator 
• http://piurl.com/iec : current location   about 11 hours ago from Twittelator
• http://twitpic.com/juyv – Guessing at least 100 people behind me in line.   about 11 hours ago from TwitPic  
• Polls are open! W00t!   about 11 hours ago from Twittelator 
• Temp=56deg (not too bad really). Parking lot & backup lot full, though 1st voters starting to leave.   about 11 hours ago from Twittelator  
• Still too dark to read out here, grabbed my headlamp but forgot it in the car. Three cheers for iPhone!   about 11 hours ago from Twittelator 
• New blog post: Part of the line to vote. http://tinyurl.com/5b3kcg    about 11 hours ago from Twitter Tools 
• In the building!   about 11 hours ago from Twittelator 
• New blog post: I voted http://tinyurl.com/69c9al    about 11 hours ago from Twitter Tools 
• Done! I was #147 E-K.   about 10 hours ago from Twittelator 
• New blog post: I voted http://tinyurl.com/5bno7t    about 10 hours ago from Twitter Tools 
• Bunch of McCain supporters in crystal city directly across from PNT. Shocker.   about 9 hours ago from Twittelator 
• Watching @BarackObama vote (for himself) on @CNN    about 9 hours ago from web  
• Got to pause the election fun and do work stuff at work now.   about 7 hours ago from web  

February 29 is a date that occurs only every four years, in years evenly divisible by 4, such as 1988, 1996, 2008 or 2016 (with the exception of century years not divisible by 400, such as 1900) for the Gregorian calendar, which is most widely used in the world today. These are called leap years, and February 29 is the 60th day of the Gregorian calendar in such a year, with 306 days remaining until the end of that year. February 29 is also known as bissextile day or Leap Day.

There are only a few hours left in the day, so any ladies out there hankering to become betrothed (to me) need to act fast on the tradition that women may make a proposal of marriage to men only in leap years, further restricted in some cases to only February 29. Best as I can tell you really have nothing to lose… tradition states that “if the man rejects the proposal, he should soften the blow by providing a kiss, one pound currency (1 British pound = 1.9847 U.S. dollars), and a pair of gloves.”

p.s. I totally stole the “Happy Leap Day” idea from Katy…

Start thinking of your favourite dark place and get your tripods ready!  As seen on Yahoo! News this morning:

Mark Wednesday, Feb. 20, on your calendar as “Lunar Eclipse Night,” for if the weather is fair you should have no difficulty observing a total eclipse of the moon.

The eclipse will be visible wherever the moon is above the horizon during the time frame that the eclipse is taking place. As it turns out, North and South America will turned toward the moon and will be in excellent position for this sky show.

The image above was grabbed off my favourite time and date website.  It has a handy Day & Night World Map that also displays the relative position of the sun and the moon for a given time and place.

The ability to relive the hour between 12:59am and 1:59am (or however that works out) in a mostly conscious state once every year does not mean that you really should.