I have quite an extensive list of blogs I like to read. Some are stay-at-home moms, some are working moms, many are scrapbookers. Some blog extensively about TV shows that I watch, reality and otherwise, and some just blog about nothing at all. A la Seinfeld. Sometimes those are the most enjoyable. I stumbled upon a blog by a writer named Carmi Levy, out of Canada. You can visit his blog here. He’s a bit of a techie, but he has a healthy sense of normalcy to him that you don’t always find with geeks. 😀 Here’s a sample of what he wrote last week about the space station (yes, I love anything to do with space), and after I read it, I went “MAN, I wish I could write like that“.
Wirelessly blogging the space station
I’m sitting on a rock a few meters from my front door, staring into the inky black sky at a dot that seemingly appeared out of nowhere. I say “seemingly” because I knew precisely when and where it would appear.
See, I’m watching the International Space Station fly over my house. I periodically go outside when the NASA tracking software says viewing opportunities will be favorable, crane my neck skyward and hope I didn’t misread the data.
There’s no logical reason why I’m doing this. Already a couple of neighbors have driven by and given me weird looks, wondering what a guy in a trenchcoat is doing outside with a glowing notebook computer on his lap and a similarly glowing PalmPilot beside him.
The fact that I am sitting here on a lonely rock, typing this as the craft zips 350 km over my head at some 28,000 km/hr doesn’t accomplish anything tangible and doesn’t contribute to the advancement of humankind. But it makes the unreal seem somewhat more real and the distantly magical somewhat less distant – but no less magical. It’s one of those little non-routine things that you can do over the course of an otherwise routine day, one of those things that makes you stop and mumble “cool” under your breath.
I hope you find similarly neat little things to fill your days as well. Life wouldn’t be the same without them.
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