I like to do a lot of things, which irritates Emilie because it usually involves money. The array of things ranges from R/C planes to ham radios to anything to do with computers. Most recently I learned about "GeoCaching" from a friend at church. At first I didn't think much about what he described - it didn't sound like much fun to me. This last week I decided to visit the GeoCaching web page and read more about it. I looked for a cache across the street from my office and after that I've kinda' been hooked. It's a lot more fun that I thought it would be and I've spent the past couple evenings participating in this infernal sport.

The last thing I needed was one more thing to do with my time...

BTW - If anyone ever wants to go, just let me know...

Yesterday was a long work day. I came in to work at about 9:00a only to discover that our company had been hit by a virus. Again. Last week we stayed up late patching systems and blocking the Blaster virus and I wasn't really very anxious to do it all over again this week. Nevertheless, we decided it would be best just to patch every system.

Around midnight the others in the group began going home. The work wasn't done, but they went home anyway. My boss and I stayed and worked until the job was done - this ended up being at about 8:00a this morning. If I could have made it one more hour it would have been a fun-filled 24-hour shift.

I went home and slept for about 4 hours and then headed back to work, but I feel like a slug.

I finally got some pictures developed and scanned of the Black Widow (you may remember her from a few posts back). Anyway, here's a picture (a little blurry, but still a picture) of the beast.

I've been seeing stories on the internet lately about how close Mars is to Earth. It's apparently closer to Earth now than it has been for 50,000 years (60,000 according to a some stories). I had difficulty finding it in the sky until last night. Now that I've spotted it I feel a little stupid for not being able to find it before.

For those in Reno, it comes over the horizon around 9:30p (roughly) and rises fairly quickly. It rises in the sourth-east (a little more to the east) and is generally toward Ophir Peak and Virginia City. You'll will know when you see it - it is very bright.

Anyway, since news has been slow lately I thought I'd share this little bit of info about my star-gazing.