With Valentine's day fast approaching, many single people feel the pressure to connect with members of the opposite sex.

Others could care less and just want the day to come and go as quickly as possible.

It's a high pressure day, no doubt about it.  Woe be the man who forgets to buy his   partner overpriced flowers or chocolates.  

You gotta show some Love.  Somehow, somewhere.

So where to begin you might be asking?

Well you might be surprised to find out that one of the best optical designers in the 

telescope business can offer some salient advice here.  I'm talking about none other than Al Nagler of TeleVue Optics.  Al's been happily married for many years to his

delightful wife Judith. 

As an amateur astronomer you will find this to be most insighful.

I'm paraphrasing Al here, so here we go:  "For the first date, I would invite the

girl out to what some gals might consider a boring date.  A science or astronomy lecture. If they could stand that, and I could get a 2nd date, then this was a good sign."

Key point here: Don't take a gal out to a fancy restaurant to impress her. 

Take her to something more unique. For example, I took a gal out years ago to

a Halloween event.  It was spooky and she was scared and had to hold me closer.

She how that works? 

Now here is how NOT to meet a gal for Valentines day. 

I was out to dinner last night in a delightful restaurant called The Mill in the town

of Thornbury, Ontario.  

They had a poster for an event on Valentines Day.  A singles social for men

and women to get together.  

Great idea you think? Well here's the thing.

All the spots for women were taken. Sold out.   As for the men signing up: mostly crickets.

Why? Because imagine the immense pressure on a guy to have to show up to

this event and hope to get lucky.  meet someone special would be enormous. 

Now for the sharp-eyed single men looking who read this.  You should think about

moving to Collingwood/Thornbury asap because the odds are definitely in your favour.

All this being said, the next best thing to having a wife or girlfriend is to have a 

a telescope.  Many peaceful hours of solace gazing at the stars.  Your telescope will

obey your commands and never talk back to you.  Heck, you don't even have to buy

it expensive flowers or take it out to dinner.

One to strongly consider is this one here: The NEW Unistellar EvoScope 2

It's compact, portable and makes astroimaging easy, since the entire

process is automated.  All of it. 

What's more, if you purchase before April 15th, you will get a FREE BONUS

of a high quality Custom Backpack for your instrument. 

Our first shipment of this instrument is arriving 3rd week of February from France.

And honestly, who knows more about Love than the French? They invented the word.

Je t'aime. 

Clear Skies,

Ray Khan

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