Look, up in the sky!

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a screwed-up computer system...

Wife and I remembered to wander outside at 9:00 PM last night, scanning above the gloaming for a bright movement in the gathering darkness.  Or two.  Space shuttle and space station, separated in their stately progress from northwest to southeast.  Leading gleam was the brighter.

Support the troops

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, a group of veterans and friends decided that troops going off to war or coming home should know that their nation cared.  Then, bureaucrats happened*:

http://bangordailynews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=151208&zoneid=500

*That's sorta like "shit happens", but less sanitary and stinks worse.

...but clouds got in the way

No sighting of shuttle and space station.  Occasional bright spots in the cover betraying the crescent moon, but only moving lights spotted were lightning bugs.  Which, as Samuel L. Clemens pointed out, are less than optimal.