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40 YEARS

The passage of time is a perplexing thing to me.

20 July 1969…I was 20.  The television we watched the moon landing…looked like this.

Three station choices.  Rabbit ears antenna.  Not in color. No big screen.   No internet.  No cell phones.    I’m sure it seems a bit primitive.  Yet, there it was, the greatest achievement of mankind.  I do wonder sometimes if we,  as a people,  have the will to chance failure…in order to achieve great,  seemingly impossible, things.  I hope we do.

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APOLLO 11...THE MIND OF MAN

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All I started out to do was  to post a link to the We Choose the Moon website where you can follow the  Apollo 11 mission in “real time”.    I wandered over to YouTube to look at video of the launch and found the one  below.  That started me thinking.

I’ve been toying with the idea of  reading Atlas Shrugged…again.  (I have no idea how many times I’ve read it.  The first time, I think, was in 1969.)  Truth be told, I’m a little afraid…I listen/watch the news and I have flashes of characters from the book.  Watching this video one can’t help be struck by the absolute Power and Majesty…of the Saturn V.  I know you’re wondering just how the heck this ties in with Atlas Shrugged…it’s simple.  In it, Ayn Rand, talks about the mind of man.  I couldn’t help but think of that as I watched …all that power…originated in someones mind.  Possibilities….


(And for a certain Daughter…things that came out of the space program: GPS, anything cordless, freeze dried food, lightweight padding that’s probably in your sneakers, smoke detectors, scratch resistant glass, satellite dish, ear thermometer, firefighter equipment, thermal gloves and boots…just sayin’.)

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SUMMER MORNING

Light and shadow.

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It’s the little things.

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WAHOO!!!

Yes!  Like the ground hog, this is a sign that spring can’t be too far away…really it’s going to happen…I believe…

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THE TRUCK LEAVES TODAY!  Thanks for the article and pic WKYC.

This will be lil’ Eli’s first Indians season. To the *naysayer(s) I say…”there is always hope”.    :-P

GO TRIBE.

Now…off to shovel the driveway apron that the snowplow has considerately filled up. (Requisite winter bitching.)

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THIS IS CLASS

Thank You CC

Story from the Cleveland Plain Dealer here.

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NO CRYING IN BASEBALL...

...but there just might be some tears when you watch this video I found over at The Anchoress. Please, go read the backstory about Sister Edwin

 Sister Edwin is Atlanta's Sister Assumpta!  She's also a Cleveland native and Indians fan too!!  I've always said that baseball is about getting home safe.  This kind of gives that thought a whole new meaning.

 (Chris will like this I think...even if he hates the Indians...and SC...not one word!)










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4TH OF JULY NOTES

Leaving work yesterday…saw this across the street.

Bras Across the River is this weekend. Amazingly, I can’t find any pics from last year.

It’s Friday, and I wish I could be here. But I think we’ll make it down later in the year.

I liked this post at Death by 1000 Paper Cuts.

Thomas Sowell vs this dope. (It’s my blog and I can name call if I want…do as I say, not as I do :-) )

And finally…

That’s it for today…going outside now to incinerate some burgers and dogs.

God Bless America

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