It is very orange outside right now.
So, the solar disc and Southern California have quite a bit in common these days. All broken out and splotchy with fiery eruptions. One of the biggest sun spot/solar flare eruptions in the past hundred years has been gooshing a coronal mass ejection through the Earth's magnetic onion over the past 12 hours or so. I've never seen the Aurora Borealis before, and I was getting kind of excited that we might see some tonight. But the winds have shifted, and we're getting a different kind of light show now. The monstrous fires around San Diego and LA are pasting a thick coat of smoke over us. It is getting progressively oranger and oranger. A lot like a heavy Phoenix dust storm glow. This is how things will look on Mars when it gets terraformed. I bet this would make for good outdoor portrait light. But no Northern Lights tonight I guess.
...as I glibly ignore the plight of thousands of people suffering through it first-hand. So far sixteen people have died because they couldn't escape the fire. Probably more will be found when the burned houses are examined. There they were, taking just a few extra minutes saving personal belongings, or pets, or maybe hoping they could make a stand, and BAM it's on them. I just can't imagine. But there it is up in the orange sky--grass, trees, corrals, houses, photo albums, dogs, horses, people. Bleh. Okay. That's over the top.
Anyway, I'm tired. I pulled a mostly all-nighter at work and I'm buzzing on 2 hours of sleep.
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