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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.
A Boy and His Cat . . .
When I won’t let Mister in my lap because I’m working on the computer, he’s usually pretty content to just lay at my feet, snoring the morning away. And, boy, does he snore. Sounds like a motorboat. As I’ve said before, he’s more like a dog than a cat.
About 11:30 Jan and I headed out for a couple of errands. After we dropped off a bag of garbage at the dumpsters, we stopped at the park office to pick up my Amazon order of the 3 LED light sets that I ordered, as well as a couple of new park access passes for both Nick and us, since the code changed this past Sunday.
Our final stop was the PO right down the road a couple of miles in Morris, which was closer than driving all the way into Batesville. We did have to wait about 15 minutes for the Postmistress to come back from lunch, but it was really nice sitting in the car with the windows down in this beautiful weather
Nick came over about 4:30 for a while, before we all headed over to Harrison, OH for dinner. Our place of choice for tonight was Buffalo Wild Wings.
I think the last time we ate at BWW together was a couple of years ago in Las Vegas, but it’s always been one of Jan and my favorite wing places. I like the fact that that they have a sweet-hot sauce as well as a really hot sauce. And lucky for us, tonight was 60 cent wing night, so instead of getting 10 wings for $9.99, I got 15 wings for $9.00. Nice!
I got my wings coated with Mango-Habanero, which is their 3rd hottest, but I really like the sweetness. But for more heat, I got a side of the Blazin’, their hottest sauce.
Jan got the boneless wings, coated in Asian Spice, along with a side of Hot, which is their 2nd hottest.
For their part, Nick got a split order of wings, half coated with Honey-Mustard and half with Honey BBQ. He said he liked the Honey BBQ better. And Terry got a Chicken Wrap that she said was very good.
As I’ve noticed before, the Blazin’ sauce is not as hot up here as down in Texas. And I’ve noticed the same thing at other places like Hooter’s.
Leaving BWW, we stopped off at Remko Market for a couple for grocery things before getting back to the park a little before 8.
Our high temp for the day was 69 degrees, with about the same tomorrow, which looks to be another Cincinnati tourist day, with Nick having several things lined up for us.
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Thought for the Day:
Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? — L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
