Eclipse over...

Last night I finally convinced my co-worker that there was to be a lunar eclipse after my false alarm the previous evening. He actually heard it was true on the radio so I can't take my persuasive comments as the cause. My co-worker is Malaysian (I think) or of some other similar origin and although his english is quite good I often wonder if he actually understands a lot of what I say to him. The environment is very noisy with a lot of machinery operating and forklift trucks buzzing around. We wear hearing protection and just increase the volume of our speech to be heard so these factors and the respective speech accents make things difficult.

Arriving at work I couldn't wait for the sun to finally settle. In between operating machinery I ducked out of the shed at regular intervals to observe the shadow of the earth slowly engulf the moon. Co-worker kept rolling up in the forklift from the storage yard saying "It's not red..." I imagined it wouldn't be red until the eclipse was complete and tried to indicate this to him but all I received was a puzzled look.

Eventually the eclipse was complete and the moon was dark with a red/pinkish tinge. I admit it was very unusual and regret having been at work and only being able to grab swift glimpses of it's various stages of fulfilment. It was nice having something to look forward to during the evening however and it certainly made the first half of the night travel a little faster.

Anyway time to rest before another night only this time with nothing to look forward to...