I finished my courses for summer session at UB, and am now have three weeks of vacation. Plans thus far include visiting both parents and one sister. Some friends and I are thinking about camping, but we've not decided the method yet: car camping in Letchworth, car camping in the Adirondaks, canoeing in the Adirondaks, or "other". I'm pushing Forked Lake, but we'll see what we end up with.

Yesterday some friends were outside looking at the Perseid meteor shower, but I didn't bother. Sure, I could drive an hour to get away from the city lights, but all of upstate NY has light pollution. I've seen the stars for real: a moonless night, on a blacked-out ship, five hundred miles from the nearest land. When it is truly dark like that, on any gived day you will see a meteor every couple of minutes, more than I could spot in at the height of a shower here. The big disadvantage was that I couldn't do any astro-photography on the ship, for obvious reasons.

On a totally unrelated and probably uninteresting note, I ate vegetarian today. I had pancakes for brunch, green pea and vegatable soup for dinner, and I'm about to make an apple crisp for dessert. Life is good.

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