I set my alarm last night for 2:35am - so I could watch the eclipse.  Jessica woke up to take a look too.
Using the camera feature of my DV Camcorder, I took these images.  This is a progression from partial to total eclipse.
 

Even at totality, you could clearly [...]

Years ago when we first moved into a house in the San Fernando Valley, one of the neighbors commented that their first introduction to me was seeing me go down the street with my son on our skateboards, catamaran style.
My 19 year old son was visiting from California with his skateboards in tow.  We decided [...]

If you’ve followed my professional development blog, Notes From The Toolshed, you read that in two short weeks, we had a hot-water heater valve blow, our house catch on fire - the result of a plumber installing a new pressure regulator, and then the storm and subsequent flood that left our home full of mud [...]