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I am in my final day of work as a Night Operation Assistant, and will become a Subaru Observation System Associate on August 1.

Astronomy fans are everywhere.

I run into astronomy fans in the strangest places. Here's the gift shop wall at Uganda's equator crossing, north of Masaka. Unfortunately, the guy who actually breaks out little telescopes and does star tours was in the city that day, but I explained to the guy on duty that I worked somewhere with a primary mirror about the same diameter as their gift shop building. :)

Greenmarket

I like Wednesdays at the UN, because the Samascott Orchards folk come down from Kinderhook in their truck and sell apples and cider and berries and apple muffins and apple oatmeal raisin cookies and so on, at the Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza Greenmarket. Yum. 

Mills Observatory

Have to send a shout-out to the Mills Observatory in Dundee, Scotland - the first observatory in the United Kingdom built entirely for public use, and the only observatory I've visited outside Hawaii.

Check out the observatory's page on Facebook.

UH 88-inch

 Check out this fan page for the telescope I used to run.  It's 40 years old this year.

Slowly learning Japanese

 Subaru bouenkyou no Bācharu Dan, desu. ^-^

Celebrities

In the course of my wanderings, I occasionally run into people who are kind of famous, and take pictures of them.  (I rarely think to take pictures with them, though!)  So, here are a few pictures of famous people I've photographed.

William "Will.i.am" Adams, rapper.

Elle Macpherson, supermodel.

Allan "Apl.de.ap" Pineda Lindo Jr., rapper.

Angelique Kidjo, Grammy-winning singer.