Time for more stuff

Jumping off from FB again......for a longer time now, since I really have no interest in it again, except to talk to some friends... two of which follow me here ;-)
And for IMAX updates, hmmmm, go figure out something. 

So know what that means, Plenty more time to bulk up the blog. More pics, definitely some makeup looks, not much on henna since I've lost my love for it ( for the while), more weird ass posts as a result of being in a strange place in my life and the writings are gonna reflect it ( my doctors will have to confirm how strange it actually is lol).

Funny, when I was off FB, the ideas came easily, so with more free time soon, I will have to let mind wander. Kinda looking forward to it.
I'll be the mad artistic physicist who likes talking to herself, hehehe

Moon

Last Friday was full moon, while I missed the Friday rise, I was ready for the Saturday. Both cameras ready, tripod too.
Watch me so used to dusk moonrises. 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, nothing.... I really should have checked the time for  moon rise LMAO.

blurry camera phone

The canon real disappoint me ( AGAIN ) tonight yes, the only ok shot it got was of the E520 ( lol)

Alright the moon is finally up ( embarassingly I was looking a full 20 degrees in the wrong direction for it........ yeah only an ameteur astronomer go say something like that). Got some ok shots

Last night I took a couple more............... much better ( guess non shaking hands helps )

This one I did something I did before, got a pic of the moon with the reflection in my bedroom window( which was set an the angle to reflect it). Never mind the metalwork in the way, kinda cool I find)

And last, yesterday sunset was AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had to post this one.

New Tech

3rd term is a ridiculously slow term. I will only have one class( 3 sessions) to teach per week. So rather than spend most of it fixing/sorting/building/testing equipment&labs, I decided to get some reading done.

Rather than buy book after book ( which most times I only ever read once and put down, but then again thats the only way my dad gets NEW books to read lol), I went and got  me a Kindle Fire. So gonna have a lot of books in my hand when needed be. Of course if I end up liking a book, I will buy the actual one ( which is what I am sure I will do when I finish the Hitchiker Guide to the Galaxy series)
OF course when you buy a kindle you can't just get that, need a screen protector, a case.....Why not sell it as a bundle? Oh wait, they do, lol

So in addition to the Kindle, I got me a new mp3 player. The old Sansa I had was haunted  ( lol like its owner hehehe). The thing would scroll through the menu on its own, volume would change on its own, the power button was not always under my control..... fucking thing was haunted I tell you.
The new Sansa clip is so tiny, and in one of my fave colours purple ( that is the official colour of physics too, go figure eh) .

A little while ago my lil brother got me some good quality buds. OMG, I have to admit they were pretty awesome in sound quality. One day while coming home, it started raining and I took them off and put them into my bag. Next morning I found them CHEWED up in the yard. Apparently they fell out of my bag when I got home and these blasted dogs killed it ( i suspect the innocent looking Lily). So of course when I ordered the kindle and mp3 player, I bought the same set of buds.

The funny thing about the buds is that in the packaging it comes with a skull stencil...... the suggested applications were funny.

Random Sunset

As everyone know, we had some major solar activity recently. With a high end camera you could actually photograph the sunspot at sunset. But everytime there were clouds . One evening the set was spectacular thanks to Sahara dust cloud (which has had my asthma on a riot..... ok its not just the dust, lol)

Here are a couple of the shots I got

Earth Hour 2012

Earth hour is a global inititive to conserve power. Quite simple, for one hour you shut down the electronics in the house and enjoy the night. This is the 3rd year I observed earth hour. I barely know anyone that does it in trinidad but I make an event out of it.

Got me a bottle of wine , and some snacks. My plan, sit with the dogs outside and enjoy the night sky ( like I need a reason to actually do that, I do that quite frequently for no reason lol )

Think I went overboard this year, for snacks I had strawberries ( from Hilo, no a single one was bad and alllll were juicy ripe unlike the crap you get from PriceSmart), smoked gouda, Camembert, olive &herb crackers and roasted pepper humus. Alllllll good

 This was my setup for the night, the pool stairs was a good foot rest ( rather than the dogs hehe)

 Moi, lol

The house in darkness

Other than floating in the water and watching the stars come out, I love watching wave pattens in the water ( too much physics I tell you).... but I can spend a LOT of time just sitting with my feet in the water and watching ripples

OF course the babies kept me company. They liked nothing better lol.

Lily- Y U No pet me ( for the 100th time hehe)

It was a good night, I was chatting with a friend in Jamaica and I kept the lights of for the Jamaican earth hour too ( I was in the pool then). At the end of it all the house was in full darkness till mins to midnight...I was in the pool lol.

Next year I need company, any takers??? anyone? I think I hear Dior barking lol.

Blooms continue

Ahh been a while, but finally got to offload pics from camera and I got plenty ( serves me right for putting it off hehe)

The Dendrobium has taken over the yard. I discoved a large sprig on the grapefruit tree( did not take pics), and they are all over the mango tree, as in all over almost lol

Here a flower is peeking out from within the tree itself

The other blooms in the mango tree

Poor Mango tree, probably doesn't think its a mango tree anymore.... doh worry when it has a couple hundred julie mangoes, it will, lol