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While the power was out during Wilma there were fantastic opportunities to do some stargazing as most of the street lights were out in the ‘burbs. Although there is some overlap between the constellations I could see in Australia there are of course many new ones to look at. Below is a shot I took out the back of my apartment with my camera mounted on a tripod. This pic has notes so move your mouse over a box to read a description of the constellation. You can see the original without lines or notes here.

Most of them are online here.

I’m going to take Annie Mac’s “can’t stopper” tag and run with it here for a bit. I’ve been going freaking crazy lately. After the whole hurricane business and getting cabin fever and so forth I’ve decided to make up for that. Wednesday night I went to see Youssou N’Dour with an Egyptian orchestra backing him. That was just simply amazing. Thursday night I went to see Depeche Mode. Might I add that they weren’t playing in Fort Lauderdale – that concert got cancelled – but they were playing in Tampa which is over a 3 hour drive away. Not bad for a Thursday night. Big props to the driver for keeping us all awake with the cool music. Tonight is Ozomatli in South Beach. Tomorrow night I’ve been given a tip that “La Covacha” would be a good place to check out. It’s a full-on Latin club and I’m wondering if they understand Australian there.

Could I do any of this stuff “when I’m sixty four”? Probably not, so I gotta do it now.

*And I just can’t get enough, I just can’t get enough*

Anyway, gotta go, can’t stop.

Most of this morning has been spent catching up with workmates and what their experience with the hurricane was. Although many have had their power restored, some haven’t (including myself) and it actually shows. I made a fairly good effort to make it look like stuff was normal by shaving this morning and this has fooled people into thinking that I have power back. It is taking me a while to get any sort of intelligent thought back into my head though.

I’ve got drinkable water back now in the house but it looks like I’ll be eating out for a while until power comes back. I must say though I don’t mind not having electricity so much as I’ve been occupying myself with other things like playing guitar. The great plus with having electricity though is that I could edit and post pictures I’ve taken online, but in the interim you could always look at these pictures of destroyed major transmission lines from the Florida Power and Light website. Oh and it’s not like I’m the only person who’s taken pictures of Wilma’s effects.