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Left: The Sutter Buttes, near Yuba City.
May 20, 2012 was the day of the big annular eclipse, and like all science-minded folk I was excited. According to the map published in the Sacramento Bee, in order to experience full annularity, however, you had to be farther north than metropolitan Sacramento: at least as far north as Marysville. So, what to do?
It just seemed frivolous to undertake a trip just to see an annular eclipse, but I had to remember, first of all, that near-total eclipses are very rare events. Plus, did I not travel to Australia in 2006, and New Zealand in 2008, just to see Kylie Minogue concerts? In comparison, traveling to Marysville for an annular eclipse was a practical matter: almost utilitarian. So, off I went!
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I ended up in Live Oak, north of Yuba City, looking at this clothing collection box. What a list of things I do just by throwing old clothes in here!
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Car Wash? Sure!
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As I filled up my gas tank at this Live Oak convenience market, there were a series of announcements on speakers from the 'Gas Station Radio Network' that in order to keep fit, it was a very simple matter to do abdominal crunches, and that I could do abdominal crunches anywhere. I begged to differ, of course. It's a bad idea to do abdominal crunches while driving, for example. Like texting, working out while negotiating traffic is rather a distraction. So, I was puzzled by these odd announcements (particularly as I was already taking photos with my camera while driving, and bicep curls and other exercises would just compromise photo quality).
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Traditional Chinese wives walk six paces behind their husbands. Fortunately, Americans don't follow these obsolete traditional ways.
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