{"id":5642,"date":"2017-08-20T10:18:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T14:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=5642"},"modified":"2017-08-21T20:43:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T00:43:07","slug":"happy-41st-birthday-me-total-solar-eclipse-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2017\/08\/20\/happy-41st-birthday-me-total-solar-eclipse-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 41st birthday, me! \/ Total Solar Eclipse tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the power of a shameless post. Typing this as early as the 5th (now it&#8217;s the 20th, I&#8217;m editing where needed), and hoping I live long enough to see this (and the total solar eclipse the next day). To die on my birth month would be quite ironic.<br \/>\nSo, wow.. 41 years of being alive. It&#8217;s both incredible, and sad at the same time.  Why, lord? You really think I have a &#8216;purpose&#8217; in life? HAH! The only purpose I have is sitting on my ass and playing video games &#8217;till the day I die. Yes, sad life. The hell I&#8217;ve been through this year, ending with rebuilding my computer (and freaking out about getting thermal paste on my fingers, thinking I can never eat again). Far worse things have been on them, and yet I&#8217;m still alive.. somehow.<\/p>\n<p>I can definitely feel the age on my body as the days go by, with the occasional arthritis and stuff like that. Yet the only thing that hasn&#8217;t aged is my brain (and my personality). Still yelling at my monitor and thinking what I&#8217;m seeing can hear me, as usual (yet at the same time, knowing it can&#8217;t respond).<br \/>\nAt the time of this post, I don&#8217;t know what game I want for my birthday (that I won&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m regretting my purchase).<br \/>\nBut I know one thing I&#8217;m <em>not<\/em> doing, which is going to the MRT Server. For the past two years, it just didn&#8217;t feel welcoming (and just like a normal day to them). I see enough drama in the MRT Discord channel to get my feel.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s about it, besides the &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; emails I&#8217;ll get from the various websites I have an account with. You guys can also wish me a happy birthday, if you wish.<br \/>\n<em>(So this is a surprise(and a first). None of the websites I&#8217;m a part of have sent me a Happy Birthday email)<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nAnd tomorrow (the 21st) is what&#8217;s been talked about since June of this year: the Great American Total Solar Eclipse. The first time we&#8217;ve seen a 100% total solar eclipse in the USA in over 100 years, and it&#8217;ll be 95.8% covered of where I live.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s awesome, (and this is official) I&#8217;ll be heading down to <em>near<\/em> &#8216;Eclipseville&#8217; (Hopkinsville, Kentucky) with my father and his brother to see the full-on totality, at its longest duration in the entire US (two minutes and 41 seconds). Got official, certified eclipse glasses from my local Kroger two weeks ago (Sun Catcher), so I&#8217;m all set to watch it.<br \/>\nQuite excited, yet worried at the same time(just the mild jitters). This feels like my first convention (minus the booths). Gotta wake up at 9am tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The weather is supposed to cooperate, which is freakin&#8217; fantastic. Can&#8217;t wait to see day turn into night infront of our eyes (and seeing stars).<br \/>\nWhile also dealing with zombies, vampires, swamp things, and floating demon eyes hitting someone&#8217;s house&#8230; oh wait, this <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> Terraria?<br \/>\nWell, to end this, enjoy this 1 hour long video of the &#8216;Solar Eclipse&#8217; music in that game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HoL8D5hn5m4\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could record the eclipse as it happens, but my phone&#8217;s camera doesn&#8217;t have an eclipse filter (plus it would possibly look blurred).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the power of a shameless post. Typing this as early as the 5th (now it&#8217;s the 20th, I&#8217;m editing where needed), and hoping I live long enough to see this (and the total solar eclipse the next day). 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