I have witnessed two partial eclipses in my lifetime, so I wasn't quite sure how a "total eclipse" would be noticeably better.

Holy shit, how wrong I was.

Luckily, I reside well within the path of totality, so I didn't have to travel at all.

And just... Wow.

During the four minutes of totality, the sky was clear, the temperature dropped ten degrees, and the speed at which a dusk-like darkness descended from the 3:00PM sky was... Wow!

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The eclipse has begun.

AS IT WAS FORETOLD.

Totality will happen here in about an hour.

Time to go out and stare at the sun! (With powerful eclipse glasses on)

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Surprisingly this week there are no Florida man stories.

The life lessons we learned this week:

-When using a picture on a news broadcast, maybe do a quick last second double check. I'm not sure how the standards and practices are for Mexican networks, but if they're anything like how they are in the U. S., someone is getting fired super hard.

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I can't believe 2017 was seven years ago now. Boy, time zips away fast.

That year, my locale only got a partial eclipse, but it was still pretty interesting. I got to see the real deal this year, though.
I just used a regular Google Pixel 2 to take these, and it was kind of hard to figure out the right way to get a good picture of the eclipse.

This was my best one:

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You can tell that summer is nearly upon us, my friends. Overtime at work has increased a bit, and come the end of June I have a three week period of overtime coming due to vacations. But despite my work schedule, I have still been working on my stories, updates and even some new projects here and there.

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This was actually supposed to be Read It Later Reviews #50, but I just posted a Read It Now set yesterday and then Bad Horse came out with a story a day later. As this set had an empty space it in, Read It Later #49 got bumped down the line. So this set actually contains four older stories, plus Bad Horse’s new one.

I’m cheating a bit. Deal with it.

Today’s stories:

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