{"id":36549,"date":"2024-04-06T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=36549"},"modified":"2024-04-04T22:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T02:03:18","slug":"you-cant-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/04\/you-cant-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"You can’t escape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Normally, I avoid the ‘popular’ news items (or, for that matter, nearly all news items) because frankly, there are enough sources for such out there and I certainly don’t need to offer my two pfennigs, much less jump on any bandwagon, and I have established my own typical subject matter herein anyway – stay in your lane, kind of thing. At this point in time, however, the ‘greater public’ is bringing its focus more into my realm, and so, while it might appear<\/em> that I’m becoming one of the crowd, it’s more accurate to say that the crowd is starting to cluster around me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Or not. But what we’re talking about is the upcoming total solar eclipse across a great swath of North America, and Randall Munroe of xkcd<\/a> has featured not one, but two eclipse-themed comics recently:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Both are quite accurate, though right now I’m identifying more with the second, since I’ve been doing, and seeing, the exact same thing:<\/strong> cloud cover for where I will be is predicted to be less-than-ideal and getting worse. The accuracy of weather reports recently has dropped – things getting too unpredictable what with, you know, nothing at all happening, according to Republican fuckwits – and so I can hold out hope that the skies will be clear enough at the crucial time without being too<\/em> blindly optimistic, but I’m also prepared for the likelihood that I’ll see nothing.<\/p>\n

Small update on the tracking motor, because I know you’ve been hanging on every word (If you even exist, which is unlikely):<\/strong> I said I had two options for getting it working, and option one failed to pan out. Option two was using a different motor, requiring a driver chip that I’d ordered. This arrived the day before I was scheduled to leave early in the morning, and I spent far too much time getting it all together and wired and programmed. But it doesn’t work. The whole shebang is still coming along, on the chance that I figure it out and get it working before Monday, but it’s not looking good right now – call it a weak, ‘maybe.’ We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normally, I avoid the ‘popular’ news items (or, for that matter, nearly all news items) because frankly, there are enough sources for such out there and I certainly don’t need to offer my two pfennigs, much less jump on any bandwagon, and I have established my own typical subject matter herein anyway – stay in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10,45,6,3,12],"tags":[1621,4004,572],"class_list":["post-36549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-continued","category-frustrations","category-humor","category-photo","category-random","tag-randall-munroe","tag-total-solar-eclipse","tag-xkcd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}