so much for the eclipse 
If there’s always been one thing I got a kick out of, it was stars and planets and the universe. At the age of seven or eight I could name all the planets (and most of their known moons) in our solar system, and knew pretty much all there was to know about them. I simply loved that shit.
That fascination is now more of a simmering heat instead of a blazing sun, but I have to admit I still love the snot out of it. Goes to figure of course that with every kickass solar eclipse we have here, I miss it because it’s clouded. I saw a partial one when I was in my early teens, but that one was only about 38% or something (it looked like someone had taken a bite out of the sun 
), but when the big one came in 1999 (98% eclipse here in Holland) it was too clouded in Hoorn to actually notice anything.
I was at that point painting my new house – august 1999 – I remember it clearly, and I’d positioned myself next to the window so I wouldn’t have to miss it. I still did. It was very clouded, so I hardly even noticed it getting darker. My dad, who worked in Amsterdam, reported he’d seen the whole thing at the roof of his work building, and that it was pretty spectacular. I was bummed about missing it.
So this was I saw today of the 75% eclipse that occurred during sunrise.
Yeah. Sucks to be me. AGAIN
Update an hour later: I stand corrected! By now the sun is up & brightly shining, there’s a bite out of it… but I am unable to take a pic this way. It’s too bright. Nearly blinded myself by checking it out *dances* I don’t care… I take everything back, hahaha
