A jar of carbon-rich solvent, a burner, and a few pieces of clear glass. We are all set for tomorrow. 
Good luck on your surgery tomorrow @KKmama.
I have a friend having brain surgery tomorrow during the eclipse. He’s afraid everyone will leave the OR to watch and he’ll be left alone. He’s kidding of course. The anesthesiologist will have to stay 
I’m almost as fascinated by reports of the potential traffic issues. I was visiting friends in NC this weekend and all they talked about were their plans to hit the road early to drive the 2 hours south. Just talked to one who said her son is in standstill traffic now southbound from Va on I-81
@conmama, My American Paper Optics eclipse glasses have printed instructions which include:
“Limited to 3 minutes continuous use, intermittently for several hours.
…
Do not use with diseased eye or after surgery.”
I wonder if they are safe to use if you’ve had cataract surgery?
What is considered a “diseased eye”?
Thanks @SnLMom !
LOL. Chinese to English…
If you have any sort of degenerative eye condition, any overexposure to light can cause further damage. If your eye doctor said you need to wear sunglasses, that likely means you have a “diseased eye.”
It kind of astounds me that people are trusting their eyesight to $2 glasses from the grocery store. They may not all be that way, but many are. Why chance your vision? I just don’t get it.
The idea of it becoming “dark” is sort of interesting but otherwise…I just think that a lot of people are going to be disappointed.
Not trying to be a downer! I just think it’s been WAY over publicized.
I made a pinhole viewer out of a cardboard box. I can just prop it up on the back deck by the pool and keep an eye on the progress. We only have 58% coverage so that will suffice assuming it isn’t cloudy - which is always a possibility in the morning in San Diego.
I convinced DH not to use the welder’s glasses he found in the garage unless they were level 14 - which he is sure they aren’t. They were meant to look into furnaces, not suns.
I just had my second eye to undergo vitreous detachment (the perils of aging) - managed to see an ophthalmologist yesterday and there are no issues - the flashes are over but now I’ve got a lot of floaters that weren’t there three days ago. I told DH I’m having an eclipse inside my eye.
I agree that viewing the partial eclipse with the glasses will likely be disappointing for many people. The pinhole viewer would definitely be a safer way to “view” the eclipse than the glasses and about the same level of “wow”.
FWIW, my glasses were made by one of the approved American manufacturers and have the ISO 12312-2 rating.
“The idea of it becoming “dark” is sort of interesting but otherwise…I just think that a lot of people are going to be disappointed.”
I agree that there is waaay too much hype, but the full eclipse is spectacular. You can see the solar corona. And the farm animals went completely bananas when it became dark! Our rooster probably went, “Oh crap. I forgot to let the hens know it is time to pack away in the coop. Aaaaaaaaaa!!!” My calico cat decided that it was time for a nighttime hunt… The family dog just sat in the middle of the driveway looking really confused. Lol.
That said, a really well-blackened piece of glass will do. Mr. B just took a picture of the sun through a self-made lens! Yay. Now I am off to wipe soot fingerprints off the doorknobs and furniture.
Filter number two has been manufactured. Now i have to help Mr. find the tripod (he just walked past it - it has been sitting in the corner of the living room since we moved in. LOL!!)
Someone will be grossly disappointed tomorrow. The forecast calls for clouds right about the eclipse time - 9:20 am).
I’m laughing at the Weather app. It’s says it will be totally sunny tomorrow in Phoenix. I guess 63% coverage doesn’t count. I expected it to say, “Partly dark, scattered clouds.”
@deb922
My PA daughter says she is abandoning clinic patients tomorrow and taking a “lunch break” that she never usually takes. My guess is she’d go back inside if someone needs stitches.
We drove up through the mountains Friday through several towns that are in the band of totality. It was starting to get busy then, and signs were going up trying to charge $20 for parking. Today we were again in the path of totality and lots of t-shirts and assorted stuff was being sold. It was crowded and fun to look at all the different state license plates. Tomorrow we head back out (its been a fun weekend-we figured even if the weather doesnt cooperate tomorrow its been a fun weekend with friends) and plan to aim for a very small town that is int he band of totality but seems a bit off the radar for most. Well, at least that’s what we hope.
I changed my avatar to an eclipse sign we saw today. Loved the name.
We are in Sun Valley, Idaho to view the eclipse. Traffic this morning wasn’t bad at all.
Here in the 99.9% totality zone it is pouring rain with thunder and lightning. Husband, daughter and son-in-law just left to drive to the 100% zone. Hope it clears up by eclipse time.
We are currently in the dead center of the path but aiming for a town 28 miles from here. Will still be in the 100% band. So far the only traffic we hit was rush hour traffic in the city we were in/near this weekend.