An Occultation of Venus on the "Day of Infamy"; how nice. I'd planned to video-tape the disappearance from the observatory, if I could rouse myself from my post-Marin-Half-Marathon decrepitude. This was to be the last Venus occultation for 11 years around here, so it seemed worth a good effort. However, the "Pinapple Connection" weather had begun on this big El Nino year, and the best that could be done was to get a few glimpses between clouds and fog. I woke up at 7am, the D was at 7:54am, and walked outside to fog beginning to come in. The actual disappearance was fogged out. I rode to Cabrillo a bit later, and the R was almost 2 hours after the D, at 9:40pm, as Venus went centrally through the moon. 9:40am was during my morning Astro 3 class, so when I arrived, I quickly herded them outside the classroom to watch; we found the cresent moon at the times it was in the blue patches between the extensive cirrus and mid-level clouds. The R happened in some slightly denser clouds, but Venus did indeed appear, at magnitude -4.2, even with the clouds and with the unaided eye for me and most students. I had my little Canon PowerShot camera and cranked up the telephoto on it and tried to aim in the right direction.