I'm pretty far north. I got a pretty clear sky. I should be able to see the Northern lights based on the fact we're going through this magnetic storm. M calls me from work. She tells me to look at the sky. She is 20 minutes away. She says she sees something. I see nothing. The slightest hint of a greenish haze. I'm talking barely on the edge of visibility. Certainly not anything to get worked up about.

She comes home and tells me that's all she saw too. But when she took a picture of it it is amazing. All kinds of colors, all kinds of shimmering sparkly lights. Phones pick it up. All those posts you see on the web, don't believe them.

Seriously man. I don't think you can understand how on the edge of the earth I am. I am on The straits of Juan de fuca and I'm in a neighborhood that we don't have street lights and I am am at 60-ft elevation but I can see the sea if I walk three houses down. There's nothing on the other side of the sea within eye level of horizon. Canada is somewhere past that point. I am on the total edge of civilization. At least the American version of it. And there's nothing but Open Waters on the horizon.

Too long didn't read: no light pollution.

Next stage: am I willing to wait for my eyes to be adjusted for 20 minutes while sitting in the middle of the road three houses up (in the absolute total darkness waiting to be run over by the random car because that's how dark it is here): no, no. I'll wave my phone from my porch. My phone can pick it up or not. I'm not trying to even see it at this point. And I get absolutely nothing.

I have a pixel. Not the most recent. My wife has some elder Apple. She gets a great shot of gorgeous stuff that no human can see at all.

Many years ago my brother Robbie invited me to visit him in his mountain House and area. Then we drove for a while into the mountains into the darkness and then lied on the back of the car for a while and let our eyes adjust staring at the sky so we could see the meteor shower. That's it. Those occasional little flickers. I wasted how much my life to see that. Let's get the f*** out of here.

I'm a terrible person. Hehehe.

Nah it was fun but at the same time it was underwhelming.