Was more of a what I did vape related last night. Cleaned my m25 and rewicked it, but it's not so much the what as the why. Not sure why I didn't catch wind of it before since I usually see space related stuff posted on social media. Get notice from my mom to go check the sky, supposed to be some comet visible to the naked eye after sundown. Been staying lighter longer with summer months so it's like 9:30 or 10p and I go out, peek around.
Since I obviously have no bloodlines tracing back to magellan or copernicus, I can't find shit. Besides general direction and the big dipper. I go back inside, get the phone so I can look this shit up and see where I'm supposed to look, grab the binoculars. Once I narrowed it down I set some things down on a makeshift work table in the yard behind me. Set the phone down, set my mod down. Started to leave it upright and thought nah, my luck it'll fall over and bust the glass. So laid the mod down.
Spot the comet which looked pretty cool even through the hazy overcast clouds. More like a flickering ball and long glowing tail. Go to round up my crap and head back in the house, binocs, check, phone, check, mod.. mod.. mod? Thought maybe I left it in the house when I went to get the phone, nope. I know I left it right there on that table behind me. So I get the flashlight and start looking everywhere. Finally found my mod laying on the ground on the grass about 5ft from the table, 6 or 7ft from where I had it.
While I didn't see it happen about the only thing I can think of given it was laying flat, it didn't 'fall' off the table. Quite a few raccoons come around every evening and get pretty active at night. I think one of the shits grabbed my mod and hauled ass with it and luckily dropped it. Which means the bugger hopped on the table behind me and snatched my shit. Made me glad of two things, one it was the swell mod so the little bit of wet dirt and dew from the grass didn't affect it and two, thankfully the glass on the m25 didn't break. Ended up giving it a thorough cleaning. Had I not seen it I would've been using the damn locator app lol.