I got a peek at it from my deck. I didn't take the binocs out or anything, I was pretty tired from tending bar, but I did see it changing color and going into totality.
I spent more time trying to explain what was going to happen to all the 'liquified amateur astronomers' up at the Legion. A lot of them just couldn't get the idea of the Moon going into eclipse at Moonset in the west. "What happens to the rest of it?" "The people out west and in the Pacific basin get to see that." "Really?' "Oh" "Why is that?"
I never did collect my consulting fees.