The weather report is optimistic that the skies should clear up around 4 am. Also, around that time, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Mars should be visible. So I try to entice my Friend and Biker to come along for the excursion. Doesn’t happen, because he is busy long-hauling.

So, I seek my bed early, wake up after the alarm asserts itself, look out the window and groan. No planets, just clouds. My gaze moves from the skies to my bed, and my body follows.