Barenaked Ladies, Messier Objects and sunrises

(Just found out that any e-mail delivered to my mailbox between 1 am and 9:20 am EST on Monday morning has been lost because of a mailbox server problem. If you sent something to me around this time, I'd very much appreciate if you could re-send, thanks. Apologies for the inconvenience!)

I took the photo yesterday morning at the cottage. Not a bad way to start the day, really. Couldn't upload the high-res version to Flickr, sorry; we only have dial-up at the cottage.

Hope you all had a good weekend! Did anyone out there actually attend the Live8 concert? Not having cable tv, I only became vaguely aware of it at the end of last week. When we were heading up to the cottage on Saturday, Jeff and I visited a rest stop on the 401 just north of Canada's Wonderland.

While Jeff refilled the car with gas, I visited the restrooms; on the way out, I nearly walked into Ed Robertson and Steven Page of the Barenaked Ladies, then Jim Creeggan about thirty seconds later. No one else seemed to recognize them (!). Figures I had left all my stuff in the car, else I might have asked for a quick photo or autograph. Turns out they were performing in Barrie that day as part of the Canadian Live8 concert event.

Spent yesterday evening rereading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in preparation for the arrival of the newest book in a couple of weeks. From time to time, Jeff would call me outside to look at a Messier Object or something else interesting in the sky. We saw the International Space Station pass over twice; so strange and wonderful to think of two people being up there.

To you Americans out there: Happy July 4th! And happy birthday to Paul Kwinn!

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