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Originally posted by: pjstroh
DonDiego is his own biggest fan. Good for him. Whitney Houston wrote a great song about that once.
DonDiego is unfamiliar with much of Ms. Houston's repertoire.
DonDiego probably prefers Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" anyway.
That part where she sings:
"Then you flew your learjet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
Well, you're where you should be all the time
And when you're not, you're with some underworld spy
Or the wife of a close friend,
Wife of a close friend, and
. . . You're so vain . . ."
That almost fits DonDiego exactly:
__The eclipse was on 7 march 1970.
__DonDiego didn't have a LearJet, but he was a passenger in the back seat of an aging Volvo which transported him and 6 other guys to the path of totality, "to see the total eclipse of the Sun".
__And it wasn't Nova Scotia, it was on the beach at Virginia beach, VA. Before the Volvo departed DonDiego's college, the driver and passengers checked in with the school's Meteorological Department, and they suggested a significantly higher probability of clear skies along the Virginia Coast as the Sun's shadow left the Continental US, as opposed to Nova Scotia where the shadow re-entered North America. As it turned out they were correct; the skies over Virginia Beach were cloudless.
__DonDiego tries to be prompt and "where he should be all the time".
On the other hand:
__DonDiego has not knowingly been with "an underworld spy", . . . so if he were, it must've been a pretty good underworld spy.
__DonDiego doesn't recall being with "the wife of a close friend", . . . at least not unescorted, . . . or for a significant interval.
__DonDiego is too humble to judge his own vanity or lack thereof.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
On 21 August 2017, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible to many residents of the United States as the Sun's shadow passed from the Oregon Coast all the way to the coast of South Carolina
DonDiego highly recommends anyone able to do so should place himself somewhere within the path of totality. It is truly an awe-inspiring astronomical event.
Ref: eclipse2017.org