More from Elizaville

Second Novel of Trilogy completed

I was introduced to this boxed set of Brandon Sanderson's Triology, Mistborn Trilogy, by my friend and former student, Paul Smith, as we discussed it on our way home from the airport.  Included is:  Mistborn, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages.  Partial synopses will give you an idea of content.  I'm looking forward to the third and final novel, The Hero of Ages. Will have to remember to have it with me while at Croton's RV Park later this week.

Mistborn, the first novel, is "set in a world where ash falls from the sky, and mist dominates the night, an evil cloaks the land and stifles all life. The future of the empire rests on the shoulders of a troublemaker and his young apprentice. Together, can they fill the world with color once more?  In Brandon Sanderson's intriguing tale of love, loss, despair and hope, a new kind of magic enters the stage - Allomancy, a magic of the metals."

Yesterday, I finished The Well of Ascension, where "the impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler – the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years – has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young protégé, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and to the idealistic young nobleman she loves."

Viewing the Antares Rocket Launch Tonight

There I was up on one of the highest locations in the campsite last night.  At 6:45 pm, I anticipated a view of an "Anteres rocket ship that was scheduled to take off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island in Virginia....When a boat appeared downrange of the takeoff site, officials were forced to call off the launch plans" and rescheduled it for this evening at 6:22 pm.  Cloud cover permitting, I'll return and hopefully have a great view (at 6:25 pm) of the event.  It's carrying 5 tons of cargo to the ISS and will return with its garbage, all of which will disintegrate as it re-enters the earth's atmosphere.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2014/10/28/Space-station-resupply-launch-delayed-by-drifting-boat/4051414501356/#ixzz3HS6uaKDN

I should see it 180  seconds after liftoff:

I think I'm in the yellow zone

I did accomplish something, however.

The evening sky at sunset last night was beautiful