Monthly Archives: July 2014
Buckyballs Forever. . .
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Following up on the Apollo 11 post: Did you know?
1. The Apollo 11 Lunar Lander only had about 20 seconds of fuel left when it landed.
2. Neil Armstrong had to dodge a house-sized boulder sitting in his landing spot.
2. Your cellphone has about 1000 times more computing power than the Lunar Lander.
3. When Buzz Aldrin followed Neil Armstrong out of the Lander, he had to be careful not to lock the door behind him. There was no outside door handle.
5. The American Flag left on the moon was made by Sears.
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In another paean to Global Warming, today it made it to 90° here in Wilmington, but then tomorrow the high is supposed to be 80, with a 70 on Thursday. And a low in the low 50’s Thursday night.
Mobile, Alabama has been having their coldest July temperatures in almost 130 years. In fact all-time record coolest high temperatures for the month of July were set across much of the South. A few of the cities that set records are Memphis, Tennessee; Greenwood, Mississippi; and Longview, Texas.
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Don’t know how many of you know about the new Kindle Unlimited plan, but if you don’t, you should. For $9.99 a month you can read as many books as you want. And the first month’s free.
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And you thought cookies were bad.
There’s a new tracking system making its way around the Internet. It’s called Canvas Fingerprinting, and is almost impossible to block. And the few ways it can be blocked may make the cure as bad as the disease. Check it out.
For dinner Jan fixed a delicious Hot Dog Chili Casserole.
The hot dogs are wrapped in pizza dough and then baked on a bed of Wolf Brand Chili, Bush’s Hot Chili Beans, and Habanero Rotel. Then topped with melted cheese. Very spicy and very, very good. And we’ve got enough for another meal.
Not sure what’ on the schedule for tomorrow. We’ll just have to see how it goes.
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In other news, George Harrison’s Memorial Tree was killed by . . . wait for it . . . Beetles.
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Thought for the Day:
They can have my Buckyballs when they pry them from my cold, dead hands.
DISHing It Out . . .
Following up on my Apollo 11 Moon Landing post yesterday, check out this video of 72 year old Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, punching out a Moon Landing denier who followed Buzz up and down the street calling him a liar and a coward.
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After a very enjoyable two weeks at the Indian Lakes Thousand Trails in Batesville, IN, Nick and Terry, and Jan and I left the park about 11am, heading for the Wilmington, OH Thousand Trails about 80 miles away. Heading in on I-74, we got on to I-275 around the north of Cincinnati, and then out on I-71 about 30 miles. A very pleasant trip.
After checking in at the park office, Nick and Terry unhooked their toad and we drove around the park to check out possible sites. Normally we would be looking for 50 amp electric to start with, but out of almost 170 sites, this park only has 5, repeat 5, 50 amp sites. And 43 of those 170 sites don’t have sewer hookups, not a good thing for a two week stay.
So now we’re down to 30amp sites hopefully WITH a satellite view of 101° (for us, DirecTV) and 110°, 119°, and 121° (for Nick and Terry, DISH). Otherwise, I’m not sure Jan could go two weeks without satellite TV.
Driving around it seemed like every time we found likely sites, either they were bagged Out of Service, didn’t have sewer, or had tall trees in the way.
But after driving around for about 30 minutes, we finally found two sites that looked like they might work. And even better, there’s only one site between us. Back at the office, we got checked in to those two sites, and then headed back over with the rigs.
Nick got parked first, with Terry guiding him as he backed into his site, and then a couple of minutes later, Jan guided me into our site.
Terry and Jan are very good at doing this, and Nick and I trust them over anyone else. We’ve all encountered other couples getting into shouting and cussing matches as they tried to get parked, even trading places so the other one can try it. Usually with no better luck.
Nick and I never have that problem.
Getting parked and set up, we were both happy to have no problems getting satellite coverage, so Jan was very happy.
A little after 3pm we all headed out to have an early dinner at #1 China Buffet, a place that Nick and Terry had eaten at several years ago, and found very good. So not having had any good Chinese since we left Elkhart, it was first on our list.
And just like Nick and Terry found before, it was still very good, and we all agreed we would go back before we leave.
Coming home, we made a quick Kroger’s stop, and I also got gas there, $3.389, and $3.289 with my magic Fred Meyer’s loyalty card.
Tomorrow looks to be a stay-a-rig day. Yah!
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Thought for the Day:
There are 30 times as many guns in the United States as there are swimming pools.
Yet, swimming pools are six times as likely as firearms to be involved in a fatal accident for children under the age of 15.
Ban Swimming Pools.
It’s for the children.
