Based off a news story I got up at 2:45 AM local time to try and see the blood moon (couldn't get to sleep anyway). What I didn't realize was that the stupid news story was wrong and it would just be wrapping up at that time. Between midnight and 3 AM wouldn't have helped me much - I mean it's shouldn't be as hard to predict the time as it is to predict the weather. They said it would be best/brightest at that time - nope. So, no I didn't really see any red in the blood moon (just the tail end of a lunar eclipse).
The next one is supposed to be October 8th or something like that.
So what did I learn this time. The news kind of sucks (stupid third or fourth tier city). Also, autofocus doesn't work worth a damn in low light situations. Too bad I didn't remember that my lens had manual focus (I hate using manual focus, it's too hard/finicky). Also, if you want a moon picture you probably want to use a tripod (actually I already knew that). Long exposure times like to blur far too much. I could have also used more mm in my lens (over 55mm).
Palindrome week: so what's that? Well, a palindrome (why do I keep trying to spell it with and "e") is something that is the same forward as backwards (like the Weird Al "song" called "Bob"). Stuff like Madam I'm Adam. But since these are dates, it will be something like 4/14/14. Basically, 4/10-4/19 will work. That is using the US date format, of course (because the other formats are just weird). I wouldn't have though of palindrome dates if it hadn't been a thing on Bing search.
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