New Year's Eve lunar eclipse -- in a Blue Moon

From the Space Weather mailing list:

BLUE MOON ECLIPSE: For the first time in almost 20 years, there's going to be a "Blue Moon" on New Year's Eve. In Europe, sky watchers will witness an even rarer event--an eclipse of a Blue Moon on New Year's Eve. What are the odds? Probabilities and observing tips may be found at http://spaceweather.com.

An early Happy New Year

We have visitors, which means I am expected to be sociable. Some of them are of the under-10 variety, which means I had better *not* be reading parts of my flist without checking who's looking over my shoulder. I definitely won't have a chance to do a year/decade retrospective tonight (although may I point out that the mathematician in me thinks that the decade changes at the *end* of ***0, thank you). It will probably happen some time over the weekend, though.

In case I don't get to the computer later this evening, may you all have a good evening, and may next year be better than the last one.