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Old 17-11-2006, 07:27 PM
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A night to myself!
Kate's gone out for the night, Eliza and Abbey are already in bed and Jacob will be off to bed soon..

A night to myself!

Skies are clear, but i'm going out observing tomorrow night and there's nothing in the sky (solar system) to image tonight..

Might watch a DVD.. band of brothers maybe? Haven't watched that in ages.. bought the DVD set after it was on TV but haven't watched it yet.

Star Wars Episode 3?? I watched ep2 again with Jacob last weekend and he wants to watch ep3, so I might have to wait for him for that..

Read a book? Sit on the internet?

hmm dilemmas!
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Old 17-11-2006, 07:44 PM
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Ahh yes, Band of Brothers. That is a tooooooop show!!
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Old 17-11-2006, 07:49 PM
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hmm yes it is! I was going to watch that, but just checked the guide and found that "The Dish" is on Ch10 at 8:30!

A shot with astronomy content! Even better for a night of slothing on the lounge in front of the TV

No junk food.. hmm that's my new dilemma!
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Old 17-11-2006, 07:52 PM
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I have this cool DVD that uses Hubble shots of various objects but an artist makes it so you feel you are travelling thru space.. stars move in the forground against a backdrop of a spiral galaxy for example so you really feel you are there.. I cant bring myself to determine the speeds we would be travelling but although this presents as very slow moving even such slow movement would translate to speeds near c..maybe even above c.. there is no narration just music similar to that you would hear on meditation and relaxing tapes. great for sitting back and marvelling at some of the objects out there.
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Old 17-11-2006, 07:56 PM
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I should check the speeds but I lent it to my father but you can pass by a galaxy in a matter of a minute so that is mmmm round 150 billion light years in a minute not realistic from that view point but so nice to look at.
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Old 17-11-2006, 08:04 PM
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The beauty of unstructured time. Simply "being" instead of always "doing".

Enjoy it Mike

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Old 17-11-2006, 08:05 PM
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Very well put, Dennis...

The laptop is running out of battery, gonna have to get off the lounge and plug it in soon
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Old 17-11-2006, 08:21 PM
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I usually put the feet up and put on some music DVD's. HRH does not approve of loud music so I make the most of those moments when home alone...
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Old 17-11-2006, 08:42 PM
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Who are you kidding Mike, you'll be on IIS all night!
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Old 17-11-2006, 09:05 PM
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nah watching The Dish.. such a great movie.
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Old 17-11-2006, 09:30 PM
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Why not do both?

Must be nice to have some "alone time"...

Enjoy it!
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Old 17-11-2006, 09:33 PM
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Hey Mike, since you're by yourself and I'm in the area, I'm gonna drop in.
Hope you don't mind I've got the kids with me too.......

Did you say we're watching The Dish?
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Old 17-11-2006, 09:34 PM
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rofl Andrew!

Go to bed and get some sleep! Late one tomorrow night
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Old 18-11-2006, 10:46 AM
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I too am batching at the moment - 'til Monday noon at any rate. The trouble is that after feeding the cats, doing the washing, organising and eating my meal, making the bed, doing the vacuuming and dusting and cleaning, whilst trying to make a couple of quid - all between trying to chat up every woman in the street (nay, the town) I'm too pooped to drag out the 'scope.

Maybe tonight . . . or not.
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Old 18-11-2006, 11:09 AM
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washing the dishes? are you crazy!!!

ah the simplistic beauty of the therad posted out of boredom
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Old 19-11-2006, 09:42 AM
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Hi Mike

Hope that you had a good night!

Cheers Petra
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