Kendra Sibbernsen

The art and the artist.

Terrifying!

Luckily, I nabbed this book from the library when the ebook version on hold through Libby had several months of wait time.

I am only 30 pages in and it is a delight! So much real science for such a goofy premise, it makes me giddy. @scalzi.com

I replaced a bent lamp cap on my Tiffany-style clematis lamp shade. (Almost) Back to normal.

That is so sad. That’s great that you got to meet him. He was the definitive voice for eclipse chasers.

I see there is an Oprah special on menopause on tonight.

When I didn't see Dr. Jen Gunter as an expert guest, I thought I'd rather read what she had to say about it than to watch it.

New project. Pattern from Sand & Fire Works.

Yes, it was a rough morning. I am reminded that heart attacks tend to increase too.

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It is astounding to me what they do not know if you don't explicitly state it at some point or another.

The other day, I had to explain what stainless steel appliances were and if they had them in their apartment or not.

A grey tabby cat sleeps on a rocking chair with a green cushion.

I haven’t seen the cats in this chair for a long time.

The best phrase in the article, “If its genome-editing efforts bear fruit,…”

I unlocked two new interactions with my library today.

The first was logging into my library account and renewing my library books from home.

The second was downloading Speechify. It turns text from physical books into audiobook form.

A tabby cat lays on an open book. To the right is a bookmark that says, “Sorry, I’m Booked” and a colorful mug of coffee.

I guess I was at a good stopping place.

My husband had an astronomy class and I helped out with observing with two digital telescopes (my eVscope 1 and a Seestar) in the middle of Omaha.

Here’s my view of the occultation of Mars by the Moon from Omaha.

Did you know that you can walk into your local library and they will just let you walk out with books for free?!

The (at least) one black squirrel that lives near our house. I have seen a half dozen brown squirrels at one time, but only one black one at a time.

Merry sleepy Christmas.

Damn it, Goodreads!

The year isn’t actually done yet.

And that cat scratcher is shaped the same way (cat faced - kind of circular) where Jasper is in a much larger box.

This is the closest they get to snuggling with each other these days.

Those alerts can be so scary when they pull you out of a deep sleep.

We had freezing drizzle last night so everything is shut down while we thaw out from this sheet of ice.

We just finished Black Doves and there were some British slang terms that I had to rewind a couple times to catch.

There is a new feature on Netflix that if you hit the rewind button one time, it shows the closed captioning for 10 seconds and then turns off in case you didn't understand what was said.

Where has this been all my life?

For the second year in a row, Michael and I won the grand prize contest from a gem company in Omaha.

Today, we solved a multi-leg hunt using different ciphers and resources throughout the city.

Last year, we won a 2-carat sapphire and this year, we won our choice of six natural rubies.

Two women sit on a stage. The author, Robin Wall Kimmerer is on the right in a blue dress.

The Serviceberry book by Robin Wall Kimmerer

I went to see author Robin Wall Kimmerer speak last night and got her new book.

Box of 4 Comice Pears from Harry & David in a Trader Joe's cart. One of the pears is wrapped in gold foil.

I got a box of four Harry & David pears at Trader Joe's and had one for breakfast and it was perfectly ripe.

Delicious surprise!

When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk How do you know what you’re not allowed to see?

Nice article by @rossandersen.bsky.social about how the US intelligence community negotiated a compromise with Rubin/LSST astronomers to prevent Rubin from incidentally broadcasting the locations of secret satellites to the world in real time.

Eclipses Create Atmospheric Gravity Waves, NASA Student Teams Confirm - NASA Student teams from three U.S. universities became the first to measure what scientists have long predicted: eclipses can generate ripples in Earth’s

Some of the atmospheric teams as a part of our Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project measured them.

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What do you mean it is no longer Caturday?