Update for Everyone V: Born Under A Bad Sign

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Leaving for Nashville, brb.

Have a great time!  Are you going to still be in Nashville for the eclipse?

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Eagerly awaiting the Solar Eclipse tomorrow AM, as one of the first parts of the US to view the Eclipse in the path of totality.

Although they shut down my manufacturing line, so I don't need to work Monday but instead we make up hours on Friday, I still can't sleep in, because I need to wake up early, enjoy a few libations while listening to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", stroll out to my back patio, put on the special sun glasses, and chill for an hour or so, gradually watching the Eclipse happen.

Contrary to local media hype, it doesn't appear that the Medium sized Mill town that I live in is being overrun with tourists. Gas appears to be prevalant, and cell phone service has not ceased.

Hopefully the glut of tourists will inject some $$$ into the local economy, and they will recommend visiting Oregon to friends and family members, but not move here permanently, since we already have enough issues with gentrification and jacked up cost of living, as it is.....

So for anyone not on "The Path of Totality" hopefully you get a chance to enjoy the show, although unfortunately God with his wicked sense of humor appears to have punished Charlottesville on the big day....

We are getting totality here too.  The sun is out and is expected to stay out long enough to see this eclipse.  The conditions aren't really perfect, though, as heat indicies will likely be in triple-digits this afternoon, though it will cool off some during the eclipse itself.  Partiality begins in about an hour and a half, with totality in just over three hours.  I'm in Nashville, and we are certainly used to handling big crouds (we had 250,000 people downtown in June when the Stanley Cup collided with CMA Fest and again in July for the nation's largest 4th of July fireworks), so everything is running pretty much normally.  I'm about to head off to the AAA baseball stadium for a watch party and may try to take in a game afterwards.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Eagerly awaiting the Solar Eclipse tomorrow AM, as one of the first parts of the US to view the Eclipse in the path of totality.

Although they shut down my manufacturing line, so I don't need to work Monday but instead we make up hours on Friday, I still can't sleep in, because I need to wake up early, enjoy a few libations while listening to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", stroll out to my back patio, put on the special sun glasses, and chill for an hour or so, gradually watching the Eclipse happen.

Contrary to local media hype, it doesn't appear that the Medium sized Mill town that I live in is being overrun with tourists. Gas appears to be prevalant, and cell phone service has not ceased.

Hopefully the glut of tourists will inject some $$$ into the local economy, and they will recommend visiting Oregon to friends and family members, but not move here permanently, since we already have enough issues with gentrification and jacked up cost of living, as it is.....

So for anyone not on "The Path of Totality" hopefully you get a chance to enjoy the show, although unfortunately God with his wicked sense of humor appears to have punished Charlottesville on the big day....

We are getting totality here too.  The sun is out and is expected to stay out long enough to see this eclipse.  The conditions aren't really perfect, though, as heat indicies will likely be in triple-digits this afternoon, though it will cool off some during the eclipse itself.  Partiality begins in about an hour and a half, with totality in just over three hours.  I'm in Nashville, and we are certainly used to handling big crouds (we had 250,000 people downtown in June when the Stanley Cup collided with CMA Fest and again in July for the nation's largest 4th of July fireworks), so everything is running pretty much normally.  I'm about to head off to the AAA baseball stadium for a watch party and may try to take in a game afterwards.

Awesome--- was thinking about you earlier in the day after "totality" had based Oregon, etc, and I pull up some photos of the Eclipse elsewhere and saw giant photos of people in Memphis celebrating totality, and wondered "Is Extreme Republican" checking this out?    ....

The two minutes watching total eclipse in person were pretty damn amazing, if I must say so....

How did your eclipse Party work out down there? Hopefully not too much cloud action.... saw some cool photos from Memphis and there was a bit of cloud cover, but it seemed like overall weather pretty much cooperated down there....

I wound up changing my mind and getting lunch near where I was and then watching it here (2-3 miles away from downtown).  It turns out that that was a really good decision because the skies were perfectly clear for the entire thing here (no interference at all), while the "Lower Broadway" area was clear for the lead-up but had a cloud block totality.  Had I gone to the stadium (just north of that Lower Broadway area), I would have seen the very tail end of totality with the cloud moving just in time.  I got really lucky to stay here and have no clouds in the area of the sun for the partial or total phases.

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The past couple weeks have really reminded me why I hated Trump so much in the primaries last year.  Can Kellyanne Conway please control the messaging like she did for him in the campaign?  I'm starting to lose faith in this presidency entirely (though Hillary would have been infinitely worse).

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One quarter left in my fantasy football game, and I'm down by 3.  Need a big 4th quarter!

On another note, I'm finally starting to feel a little better after an awful cold, but I'm still not 100%.  Probably was a mistake to get up really early to get to SEC Nation at the crack of dawn yesterday, considering how I've been feeling!

EDIT: Now I'm up by 5.5 (actually entering the 4th- I jumped the gun a few minutes ago) thanks to a massive catch and run by Chris Thompson!!

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That was actually a really good game