<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>I went to Athens TN as well. A family member's customer had a nice cookout mostly for employees (~25 ppl) but we managed to get invites somehow and are very grateful. I heard the Athens city park had 20,000 people though! Wow. <div><br></div><div>Watching the eclipse get closer through the glasses was pretty cool but totality was so amazing! Completely worth the horrific traffic on the way back to Atlanta.<br><br><div>Scott<span name="x"></span></div><div id="345c0c0d-4000-4b0c-b882-3bb9407949a1"><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Phil Turmel" <philip@turmel.org><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, August 22, 2017 9:35:01 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] EHLO<br><br>On 08/21/2017 05:23 PM, Jerald Sheets wrote:<br>> Ping!<br>> <br>> The idea that this group had nothing to say what with the eclipse and a few other things makes me wonder if the list is broken atm.<br><br>I spent the day in Athens TN at a customer facility. They bought<br>eclipse glasses for all employees and shut down for about an hour so<br>they could all watch.<br><br>Totality is spectacular, btw. It was 2-1/2 minutes there.<br><br>No large animals nearby, but the cicadas went nuts.<br></div></div></div></body></html>