As Comet NEOWISE (C2020F3) starts to depart back out into the darkness of space to begin its 6,766 year journey out and back again, it moved from the pre-dawn skies to the evening skies. I was able to spot the comet through my binoculars outside the house, but didn’t have any luck with my iPhone except for one last shot that included the street which…
July 18, 2020
For our second trip to try and see Comet NEOWISE (C2020F3), Daniel and I ventured out to the city of Pearblossom, CA near Devil’s Punchbowl Natural Area as recommended by one of Daniel’s friends. The sky was much darker than last week’s Banning trip so we were rewarded with some great shots of the comet. This past week, I also purchased a pair of 10×50…
July 13, 2020
On Monday morning (July 6), Daniel and I escaped our apartment to go see if we could spot the recently discovered comet – NEOWISE aka C2020F3. The comet was discovered back in March and over the weekend, I became aware of it and how bright it was going to be. Of course there is a downside to everything, and currently the comet is only visible…
July 7, 2020
Fourth in the series of the self-isolation media consumption catch up.. Continuing on from my earlier post of the Shōwa Era, its now time to tackle the Godzilla movies from 1984-1995, what is considered the Heisei Era. This is what I consider the early “modern” era since its the first one that happened when I was a cognizant person. While the Heisei Era was a…
July 5, 2020
Another walk around the city today to stretch my legs and get out of the house. As of today, Daniel and I have walked over 39 miles since the Stay at Home began back in March. It’s really not a lot, but I am glad we are doing something and hope to continue going out a couple of times a week when life resumes. We…
June 29, 2020It’s finally here. After three months of intensive focus, the all-new Club Josh is live. As posted in the What’s New blog, here area all the changes I have made since March: Added 19 Gorn Photos Fixed the page layouts and paragraph spacing of all entries of Daily Update, Trip Diaries, and What’s New Fixed all the old Instagram links that were broken Removed most…
June 28, 2020Sunday is the 25th anniversary and I have spent the last couple 100 days or so working behind the scenes on the Trip Diaries and photos getting ready. The new TD site is already live as is the re-themed What’s New section. When I use the template for something without photos its really bland, but then again I do not really expect people to be…
June 24, 2020Still tinkering under the hood, but I finally purchased a new theme for the site and have posted it under the Trip Diaries page and I am continuing to learn how to use it and make changes to the existing content over there to make it more a) eye catching and b) closer to the vision of how I wanted to present the Trip Diaries…
June 4, 2020It’s getting down to the wire as my deadline to refresh the site and add more content before the 25th anniversary in June. Today I finally published my Japan 2017 Travel Diary which was amazing since I hardly had any notes from that trip and didn’t think I would ever publish one. I wasn’t sure what happened, but I think I must have been procrastinating…
May 28, 2020While rummaging around the dark dusty corners of the site in my effort to spruce the place up, I realized that today, May 25, is the 7th anniversary of this design for my site. My intent when I converted to WordPress was to be able to change the site design easily and for one reason or another that never happened. So disappointing in some regards,…
May 25, 2020