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Walking to the little produce and import grocery near by (working on getting the last thousand or so steps in for the day), i looked up at the moon in conjunction[1] with Jupiter and noted a star, moving? Yes, moving. At that point, i knew it was a satellite . I looked it up, and found it was a magnitude 2.2 transit of a Lacrosse 5 military reconnaissance satellite. How cool!

The market had a lovely diversity of rice, so i bought an inexpensive Mexican long grain and a somewhat more expensive Persian rice from Israel. There's risotto and basmati and jasmine rices to tempt me. I've been eating buckwheat groats at lunch from another venture to the market.

When i came home i paced around the pool reading a lovingly detailed chapter on coffee making in Quarter Share.

I am trying to be proud that i'm getting my walk in, and that i stopped and had my hair cut tonight instead of facing what was reportedly heavy traffic just at 5 pm.

I'm tired, and i'll try to sort out some Meeting things in the morning.

[1] Well, it's close to conjunction if not tonight.

[2] Magnitude 2.2
Date: Monday, 30 January, 2012
Satellite: Lacrosse 5
Observer's Location: Mountain View ( 37.3860°N, 122.0830°W)
Local Time: Pacific Standard Time (GMT - 8:00)
Orbit: 711 x 718 km, 57.0° (Epoch 28 Jan)
Sun altitude at time of
maximum pass altitude: -24.7°
Event Time Altitude Azimuth Distance (km)
Rises above horizon 19:26:19 0° 315° (NW ) 3,122
Reaches 10° altitude 19:28:43 10° 312° (NW ) 2,204
Maximum altitude 19:33:43 63° 233° (SW ) 800
Enters shadow 19:35:33 37° 167° (SSE) 1,098

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The different rices sound interesting. Are you going to have to prepare them differently? I ask because I got a "California Basmati" (*snort*) from the supermarket and despite having excellent success cooking real basmati, I cannot get this supermarket stuff to do anything but glom up into a big gooey mess.

Oh hey, I'd thought that was Jupiter, but kept forgetting to look it up. Sweet!

I'll just leave the rices to Christine's tender care.

There were California Basmatis on the shelf: we do have a big rice growing area in the state. (ponders wikipedia) Hrm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehani_rice This California aromatic rice sounds like the focus was on the flavor, not the stickiness.

*nodnod* I mean really, a Basmati shouldn't be sticky at all? IDEK. This is what happens when you plan poorly and wind up out of rice but not going near the Indian place on the other side of town for at least a week. I need to figure out what to use the stuff in, though, because it also ruined a perfectly good rice pudding, so dang.