Watching Jupiter

Last year I bought a Galileoscope for $15. It's a cheap (though well-made) telescope that was meant to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first astronomical observations. It was $15 -- so cheap!

Jupiter has been visible all this month out our bedroom window around 4:30am, and this morning I pointed the telescope at it and saw its moons and, I think, a band across the middle. If I had a tripod to hook it up to, I would have got an even better view...but even balanced on the window, it's amazing what you can see.

Work yesterday was interesting -- which is good, because it's been a bit of a slow month. A vendor bought me coffee, and it was actually an interesting conversation. I finally got an LDAP server migrated to a VM in preparation for re-installing the host it's on; this took a while because I refused to read my own instructions for how to set up replication (sigh). And that brought up other problems, like the fact that my check for jumbo frames being enabled wasn't actually complaining about non-jumbo frames...or that the OpenSuSE machines I've got didn't get their LDAP configuration from Cfengine the way I thought.

All stuff to solve tomorrow...I mean, today. (Dang getting up at 4am...)