If you got up at the crack of dark on Pearl Harbor Day, you might have seen Jupiter slip by the moon. Back east, people actually saw Jupiter rise over the moon. A Jovianrise, imagine that. Of course, that's assuming the clouds obligingly parted long enough to reveal the moon, the planets and the stars. You know that big crescent thing up in the sky? The big dots? Those other little dots? Those things.

Not that Jupiter actually slipped by the moon - you know, omigosh, kabam, that could have been one more little dimple on the man in the moon's face. Yeah, yeah, Jupiter is way out in the back and beyond of our little solar system, while Luna is like just down the block in comparison. You think the Betster was snoozing during science class? From our perspective, though, they're all dots in the sky that now and then seem to bang into each other.

Kind of like, well, friction challenged motor vehicles braving the sleek streets of Homer. Want to get really cosmic? Try driving in a heavy snowfall, low beams catching snowflakes as you creep along on impulse power and it looks like you're on the starship Enterprise making a hyperjump. Yee-hah!

When you've pried your knuckles off the steering wheel after your daily driving adventure, steel up your courage and head out once again for some of these Best Bets:

BEST ON TOP OF SPAGHETTI BET: Book your Tuesday lunch date now. Whether dining at the Elks Lodge or enjoying take out, the hip, happenin' lunch is the annual Share the Spirit Spaghetti Feed from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday. Lunch is $10 a person, $40 a family.

BEST SOUNDS LIKE CYRANO BET: A shy young man enamored of a beautiful woman hires a scribe as his emissary. Hmm, where have we seen that plot before? Maybe Gabriel Garcia Marquez has a new twist on "Cyrano de Bergerac" in "Letters from the Park," a 1998 Cuban film adapted from part of Marquez' "Love in the Time of Cholera." The film plays at 6 and 8 p.m. Friday at the Kachemak Bay West Campus. It's free, but donations are accepted.

BEST PIN 'EM BET: While the Mariners cross-country ski team is competing up at Kincaid Park in Anchorage, you can catch the wrestling team in town. At 5:30 p.m. Friday, wrestling duals with Nikiski, Kodiak and Palmer run at Homer High School. Then at 10 a.m. Saturday, it's the Homer wrestling tournament. Go Mariners!

BEST QUAINT ETHNIC FOOD: Homer old-timers know that it's not the holidays until Faith Lutheran Church holds its annual Lutefisk Dinner. That's right, the cod that surpasseth all understanding returns. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $15 for adults, $7 for high school students and $5 for children through grade 8.