Looks like I’ve survived another circuit around the sun.
Whoopee.
Archive for the 'Anniversary' Category
It would seem it’s my birthday.
And it’s unexpectedly turned out to be a really good one. Wow. Thanks to Ben, Richie, Anson, Joanne, Dean, Mary, Jeff, Natalie, Margerat, Dick, Jane, Robin, Cameron, Nick, the dual wielding dwarf with the dead ThinkPad and Heidi. And Tim, Renae, Scot, and Misha.
I’ve spent eh past year unable to write a dear friend’s obituary, so it’s no surprise I can’t write anything cogent about the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
It’s forty years later. There’s no reason we shouldn’t be living on the moon.
Put it in perspective: Columbus took longer to get to the Americas. He lost more men and ships on the way. 40 years after Columbus, the europeans had colonized the New World. Hell, 40 years after Columbus and the world was eating the foodstuffs he brought back and telling themselves they’d been doing so for 2000 years.
40 years after Apollo and the Russians and Chinese have viable Spacec programs. We don’t.
40 years after Apollo 11. 37 years after Apollo 17, the last humans to walk on the moon. It’s somehow fitting that we lost the footage of the moon landing. And that the Space Shuttle will retire in September 2010 with no replacement. I’ll leave out my usual political screed, but it’s so fucking sad.
Happy New Year.
That is all.
The irrepresable Ms. Heidi is celebrating today! She’s almost legal! If you happen to see her, wish her a very happy birthday!
“It was twenty years ago today…”
On Leap Day 1988 I spent a small fortune for the time on an “outpatient procedure” which left me able to walk and relatively pain free. Anyone who has suffered with backpain and underwent surgery knows what i went through. Despite the increase in pain post op, the ability to feel my legs and move was amazing. Even with the stiffness and added pain from surgery. I’m told that the laparoscopic procedure I underwent isn’t even performed anymore. I don’t care. I can walk, and the level of pain I live with now is almost nothing compared to the pain preceding the surgery. I was heading for a serious psychotic episode, I was homicidally angry every waking moment. Pain makes you do stupid things. So happy anniversary…
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