Daily Archives: July 20, 2014
“Houston . . .
Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
45 year ago today mankind first walked on the moon.
Apollo 17, the last Moon Mission, landed back on earth December 19, 1972.
And we never went back.
“I always dreamed I’d live long enough to see the first man on the moon. I never dreamed I might live long enough to see the last.” – Jerry Pournelle, NASA scientist / science fiction writer.
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Well, I’ve got a new job for the job bank. One of the day/night shades that I restrung back in January 2013 broke again. One thing I noticed was the holes in the metal frame were pretty rough around the edges, that could cause the cords to fray over time. I smoothed them down with a file, but maybe I missed one.
Here’s a blog post on how to restring these shades.
About 4pm, Jan and I, and Nick and Terry, headed in toward Cincinnati to have our last dinner here at the Quaker Steak and Lube
The last time we all ate at Quaker State was in September 2012 on our way to the Hersey, PA Thousand Trails. We stopped to spend the night in the parking lot of the Cabella’s in Triadelphia, WV, just outside of Wheeling.
There was a Quaker State across the parking lot so we decided to have dinner there. It was the first time for Nick and Terry, but Jan and I had first eaten at one in 2009 on our way back from Newfoundland. We had stopped in Corfu, NY, just outside Buffalo to visit Niagara Falls and The Original Anchor Bar, the restaurant that invented Buffalo Wings.
We’ve always enjoyed our visits there and tonight was no exception.
Nick and I had the Ribs & Wings, while Jan had the Deluxe Nachos and Terry had a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich. All very, very good. And we all want to go back.
Tomorrow we’ll all move 77 miles east to the other side of Cincinnati to the Wilmington Thousand Trails. We’ll be there for two weeks before Jan and I head back to Texas by way of Alabama, and Nick and Terry head east to Hershey, PA and then the East Coast.
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Thought for the Day:
“Marry in haste. Before she gets away” – James Garner R.I.P.
James Garner married his wife after knowing her for two weeks. They were still married 58 years later when he died yesterday.
He also said, “Marriage is like the Army; everyone complains, but you’d be surprised at the large number of people who re-enlist”.
