Remember my new apartment? I got mostly moved in: There are still some boxes. I need a piece of furniture. I think they used to call them “credenzas.” “Credenzae?” I only need one.

Obviously I have been neglecting WoPSR​.net for a while. My unem­ployment following admission to the bar is entirely to blame for that. It’s not that I had nothing to say during that time. I just had nothing inter­esting to say that couldn’t be said in 140 or fewer char­acters. That shall change now very soon. For I, the Unemployed Attorney, have obtained a position! I can’t share any details about it yet; at least not until I know what those details are myself. But know you that whatever it is, it will lift me out of my doldrums and fill me with lots of hot air to [ . . . ]

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Tonight’s total lunar eclipse, visible from Western Europe and Africa to the Rocky Mountains, will be the last one until 2010. The moon will enter the Earth’s umbra at 8:43pm EST and will enter total eclipse at 10:01pm EST, where it will remain for 51 minutes, until 10:52pm EST. The moon with then leave the Earth’s umbra at 12:09am EST on Thursday morning. Total lunar eclipses last longer in totality than total solar eclipses because the Earth is larger than the moon, so its umbra is much larger than the moon’s, and the moon, being small, takes longer to pass through [ . . . ]

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I will shortly be making my glori­atial and spec­tac­ulary return to regular substantive blogging. I have much in the way of Yuletide dramatics to relate. Topics will include: The Bhutto Assassination My Sister’s Graduation My Sister’s Job Interview Families & The Holidays Gift-​​​​Giving I will also be cleaning up all these half-​​​​finished movie reviews.