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I accidentally closed the browser and now even my defunct feed is no more. Google+ is now completely gone for me.It is a sad day. I am legit depressed.4400 posts

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I miss my goofy old man

http://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/orion-first-flight/?action=getcert&e=1&cn=101665 So the test flight isn’t really going anywhere, except further out than we’ve sent any spacecraft intended to carry human life in several decades.

It’s kind of neat… the space shuttle Enterprise gets to fly one last time… on Monday April 23rd.

Space Shuttle Discovery took its final flight today on its way to becoming an artifact at the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space museum.     Kind of wish I had been in Washington DC to see its fly-over.

In Read more

It was a week ago today that I had to make that very tough decision.    Sunny was not doing well.   It had been several days since I had seen him eat anything (and months since I had seen Read more

Today is the first sun rise in thirteen or so years where Sunny isn’t on this Earth anymore.   

Rest in peace buddy.   Chase some birds for me.

It’s only taken most of the winter… but there is finally enough white stuff to bother with my ‘first snow’ entry for this season.  

I’ve had a couple of light dustings, but it melted so fast I started Read more



Mostly I just wanted to store these links somewhere for future reference.    But if you’re a dog-owner, with an aging dog, these might be useful for you too.

Its all rather short and to the point, but useful Read more

America no longer has a space shuttle program.    Atlantis has completed the STS-135 mission, its 33rd flight (I believe) and when it wheels rolled to a stop, so ended the era of the Space Shuttle.   There has been Read more

Two dreams I recall:

One dealt with me driving a big rig on unfamiliar, and overly complex, freeways.   Had three other passengers.  One looked like Jenna from work, but wasn’t Jenna in the dream.    Kept missing exits Read more

  In a few minutes or so, the space shuttle Atlantis should be blasting off, with its four-person crew, on the very last mission of the US Space Shuttle program. As it prepares to embark upon its final voyage, Read more

This always makes me happy and sad at the same time.    Pet gets lost, is adopted by a new family, gets lost again, turns up in a shelter, finally gets the microchip the first owner had implanted scanned, and Read more

I dedicate this link to my honey’s irrational fear of aviation.  

http://www.theawl.com/2011/06/how-to-not-die-in-a-plane-crash