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English Lit, History and Communication & Culture are going good; Religious Studies...not so much.
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Good luck, Reliant.

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Did anybody see the total solar eclipse yesterday? It was around 6:20pm Pacific Time when it was complete. We went to a beautiful spot called Bald Rock near Lake Oroville, here in California, to see it. What a picturesque view it was! Some places were selling special glasses that would allow you to see the whole thing without going blind for about $3-4.
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mwhittington wrote:Did anybody see the total solar eclipse yesterday?
Nope - the planet was inconsiderately pointing the wrong way.
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Captain Seafort wrote:
mwhittington wrote:Did anybody see the total solar eclipse yesterday?
Nope - the planet was inconsiderately pointing the wrong way.
That and I didn't know about it until after it happens. I have only seen it once and that was when I was in Elementary School.
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I saw it; it was only a partial from where I live, you could just see the outline of the moon on the bottom of the sun.....very cool
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Here in Houston, it blocked about the bottom third before it went below the horizon. Cool to see, for sure.
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Missed it, sadly. :( I learned about it the day it happened, though.
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Last time I saw a total eclipse was 1999, we knew about that one for about 20 years before the actual event. It was in a Guinness book of records I had as a kid. Graham and I planned to go and see it and ended up going to France for a few days. We messed up our hotel bookings and ended up sleeping in the car in a Motorway service station. Very cool though. This was the car :)

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You guys must be WAY smaller than you look if the both of you slept in an MR2.

:lol: Before I read the whole post and looked closely at the pic, I thought you were going to say something like, "I saw an Eclipse recently - "
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Ooh, good one, Mikey. :D
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Mikey wrote:You guys must be WAY smaller than you look if the both of you slept in an MR2.
No, it was... entertaining.
:lol: Before I read the whole post and looked closely at the pic, I thought you were going to say something like, "I saw an Eclipse recently - "
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It looks like I am moving back to NJ within a couple of months. Turns out my apartment complex doesn't allow Full Time Students because they are afraid of it becoming into a dorm and some sort of IRS tax relief for the apartment that stipulates no full time students.

I can't do part time college because the GI Bill doesn't have a price limit (it's way up there) but a time limit. So 4 credit semester counts as 12 or 20 credit semester. I only got 36 months of free money. I don't want to screw myself.

So I am getting fuck out of this Communistwealth of Virginia. Going back to NJ just don't know yet.

I just started to dumpster dive for boxes.
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Ugh, that sucks, McAvoy.
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