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Originally Posted by Eric Hahl

It's Willamette Valley Oregon outside here. Need I say more. Frickin gray, cold, rainy crap.

Sounds like the perfect place for an astronomy buff! If the theory is that the weather goes to crap when you buy new astronomy gear, then the NW coastal area must have a ton of astronomy buffs that spend a lot of money on gear just to stare at it in their living rooms.