First I grabbed my equipment: "pinhole camera" colander (eclipses are apparently Pastafarian), notebook to use as a screen for said pinhole camera, and my solar filter.
Unfortunately, our house does not have a view of the sunrise, because there are trees and a hill to the east. So I had to go somewhere further than just the backyard. I thought about canoeing out into the middle of the lake, but the canoe had 3 inches of water in it from the recent rain, and since I had already missed maximum eclipse (which happened around the time I was waking up and deciding to actually do this), I didn't want to spend too much more time. Valerie had already taken the electric car off somewhere, with intent to actually see the whole thing, since she's an early bird.
So, I jumped on my bicycle, and rode off looking for patches of sunlight. I found some right away on our road, but our road is pretty busy, and I didn't want to stand in the middle of it staring at the sun. So I looked on a little side street, and found a decent patch. There were trees that I had to kind of look between, unless I wanted to stand in the middle of the road, which I didn't exactly want to do, even on the little side street.
I got a pretty good view of maybe 40% eclipse (and waning) through the filter. It took the couple of tries to figure out the right distance to hold the colander and the right angle to hold the notebook to get the images. Then there was messing with the camera, so by the time I got pictures the eclipse was getting to be done.
I held the filter over the camera lens of the cell phone and tried to take a picture. First one I forgot to turn off the flash, but the sun surprisingly came through despite the flash reflection off the filter. The second one is weird -- I think the large round blob of light is reflection from the camera lens onto the filter. And then there is the actual eclipsed sun, smaller, but still visible.
Then I stashed my equipment back in my bike bag and rode home, even able to get back to sleep at 6:20 for an hour or so.