So.....it was cool. I got to see the meteor shower afterall. I didn't think I was going to be able to. See, it went like this. Peek time for the shower was like 5-5:30am. My Love has to get up for work at 7am. These two things are not compatible. I couldn't see anything from my apartment complex, because it's just too darned bright, and I really didn't want to be driving to dark areas by myself at like 4-5am. (Ya know, just those little things like self-preservation and a lack of stupidity.) I knew I could go with Jef because he's up and he only works weekends, but his phone isn't connected, so there was no way for me to reach him. My Love goes to bed late - like 2am or so - and I walk away from the PC since mine is in the bedroom and he can't fall asleep with the monitor light and my loud typing.

So, I'm moping about on the couch for an hour or so when I just decide for no reason to go check my email. It's about 3am at this point. So I meander in and check my email (nada interesting), but since there wasn't anything interesting, I decide to check out my forum. I'm nosing about and I see there's like four or five people in the chat room. At this point in the tale, you have to understand something. I use Netscape. I was surfing with Netscape. The chat room had never once - not ONCE - loaded properly in Netscape. There was some sort of incompatibility. But, for no real reason, I decided to click the link anyway, and sure enough, it loaded immediately. Woah, cool. So I'm chatting with some people there when one of them asks me about Jef. I tell her I'll be hanging out with him tomorrow (now today, Tuesday) and she's like, "I haven't talked to him forever. "

Not two minutes later she says something along the lines of "Hey! Did you just tell Jef to message me?" And I was like WOAH! He's online? She relays a message to meet me in Yahoo Messanger - which I log in promptly - and I ended up getting to speak with him afterall. Whoo hoo! So I tell him how I wanted to reach him but I couldn't. He was at his mom's house, looking for me specifically, and the odd chain of events just worked out in such a way that it worked. It was awesome. So I tell him I really want to get to see the meteor shower, but I can't because my Love's in bed. He offers to come down and pick me up and bring me back over to his mom's neighborhood (there's a nice, really dark road a couple streets away) which is 30 minutes each way so I can get to see it. We confirm plans and he comes and gets me.

Ok, so it's 40 degrees outside - this is UBER cold for Florida and for me - and we're sitting outside, on some damp lawn chairs on the side of the road, where there are no street lights from about 4:30am until about 5:15am when we head back to his mom's to go get her since she was supposed to meet us. We get there just as she's pulling out of the driveway (we walked) and ride back with her. Someone else is parked down the road from where we camped out and we stayed out there until about 6am.

The shower was hit-and-miss. Still amazingly spectacular and very cool, but poor Jef missed seeing the really impressive ones. Some of then really looked like something out of the movies. It was breathtaking. (or was that the cold? lol). Others were fainter - it was dark enough, but there was a haze to the sky - but at some points, you could see them shooting off in all directions, several at once. Some of the larger ones looked like they were in slow motion - they left trails that faded gradually.

All-in-all, I was very glad to have seen it. I wish I could have planned better and gone out somewhere even more country to try to get even more of a view, but even what I saw was simply amazing. It was cold and I didn't get to sleep until 8am, but it was very, very cool.

~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream at 11/19/2002 09:52:28 PM ~ ~