Brown Motion

This could well be the opening lyric of a country song. In fact it might have been.  But I am talking about me.  Pay attention.  Or not.  I don't care. I am getting old though.  I speak with the authority like I understand the exact stages of life.  Well see 12 hours ago I was on the cusp of entering 'the feeling of being old' and this morning it is full on.   And about seven years and five months and 13 days on I will be just 'old'.  But I suspect there are signs.  And I mean beyond the involuntary discharge of gases from many orifices,  some I did not even know were there.  For one - random body parts start hurting.  Bulges start appearing where there was no reason to.  The other day I found out I had grown a second liver.  Well it felt like it. Took a picture and called the doc.  Oh that is just a Lipoma he said.  Apparently they are common.  Well if you ask me I had not seen one before.  So clearly something goofy is going on. Another item on the list is vision.

More like chasing one's tail.  As in having persistence to keep going after it time and time again. This was a case where we literally wanted to go see the celestial body known as a comet. Why you ask?  Well for starters stuff on the planet seems passe.  So why not look up to something?  Literally. This one is a ball of ice and dust and seen streaking across our solar system for an observer in the northern hemisphere. Typical viewing times are in the month of July 2020, after dusk below the constellation Ursa Major (or Big Dipper).  Looking out on the NW horizon around 10 pm on the summer evening one might get lucky to see this faint blur of a comet dipping down toward the horizon. While only 3 miles at its core diameter, Comet NEO-WISE (so named as the acronym is part of a government funded survey for near earth objects), is about 0.66 AU away from viewer on earth at this point (1 AU is earth's distance from our sun = 93M miles). Below are a couple of pics taken from northern