I didn't plan on being up this late, but OS upgrades have funny ways of distorting time. Anyhow, it's a quarter to 2, and there's a rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB at 3:22am. An hour and a half from now.

If I didn't have to leave the house at 8 or 8:30am I'd stay up. That is, if I'd gotten more than 4 hours of sleep last night, which I didn't. Drat. I haven't seen a rocket firing in a long time, and even though Vandenberg's 260 miles south of here, you can still see the rockets on a clear night like tonight. Then again, it might not launch at all today. Though by the time you're reading this, it's resolved either way.