The Cosmos is sending me a special birthday gift, billions of years in the making!
Read all about Asteroid 2004 XP14 HERE.
How cool is that?!
I'll never actually SEE it, of course, but still....it's pretty damn cool.
I REALLY need to get away.
I've been bugged the last few days with plans to drive down to the Jersey Shore for my birthday, just to get the hell away from this home I call prison, if only for a day.
There are no fireworks on the 3rd, they will be fired off the 4th in Ocean City (as far as I can tell, Atlantic City still does not have a fireworks show ever since the barge fire).
I'd like to go on the 3rd, but I'd also like to see fireworks over the ocean, but in order to do that I'd have to go down the 4th, but I HATE crowds, not because of any phobia, they just piss me off because people bump and push and shove and just don't care that other people are sharing this planet (or are supposed to share it), and with the bum shoulder any bump could be a real problem.
The crappy weather here in the PA/NJ area (with all the flodding all over the news the last few days) doesn't seem to be getting any better - the system is stalled over the area - so unless the rain goes away, a Shore trip will be a definite no-go, which will utterly depress me. Even if the weather gets better, I am still undecided if I will indeed go to the shore or not, but at least the option is open.
If I do wind up going I'll probably go to the Atlantic City boardwalk during the afternoon (I don't gamble - I couldn't aford to anyway) but I like Atlantic City's boardwalk better than the Ocean City boardwalk, and the Wildwood boardwalk is just too damned full of those darn kids to be any fun. Then I would go to Ocean City for the nighttime fireworks show - at 9:00 or 9:30pm, then drive home.
Anyway, the point of all this is : An asteroid will fly past the earth almost as close as the moon is on my birthday - so Thanks Universe, that's a cool gift!
RobMac
