1. Assemble protective eyewear. (Well, hopefully.)

2. Acquire junk food with spacey titles.

3. Find people as nerdy as you are. (Your kids will do if no one else will come.)

4. Bore your kids with a story of when you saw an eclipse in the eighties, which, of course they think is the Stone Age.

5. Turn it into a teachable moment by forcing your kids to watch videos on the NASA website.

If you are in our area, you should be able to view a partial eclipse starting at 1:21pm. Enjoy!