Well it's monday again...

Lets all amuse eachother and share a CHEERFUL PLEASE anecdote from some day that isnt manic monday. Unless it was lastmonday, cus it can't hurt you anymore

Yesterday, kay had the best time. we went for a walk to buy bread from the bakery and we never made it.

Kay ritualy wanted to stop and look at the fountain. On the way there she told us, 'I don't want to go swimming, it's too cold!' (it IS) she SO lied. We got there, and there was a golden retriever catching her ball in the water, so we walked by to watch, and the dog ran straight for us. She came to me, but Kay just wraPPED HER ARMS AROUND HER NECK, AND BEFORE WE KNEW IT THEY WERE SOAKED AND PLAYING BALL TOGETHER.

freaking caps lock, im too lazy to fix it. Anyway...

After like the secod time we threw the ball for the dog (who had no problem glomping you, soaking wet, and then shaking off right next to you - yucky yet sweetest dog ever. her name is ginger) Kay decided she was going to just jump right into the water and throw the ball. For about 20-30 minutes they ran in and out of the water together, in 62* weather with the sun setting, and she just had a ball.

She didnt even realise she was cold, but when the sun gave out we pulled them both out and took off kays clothes. We wrapped her in Josh's big sweater and went straight home and put her in a warm bath. ALL she could talk about was the dog and how she wants a ginger. But she must have been so cold, because my hand holding her wet clothes went numb from cold between here and the two blocks to the fountain, so she must have been freezing.

Anyone else?

 

About 5-6 years ago, when my son, James, was 3, he greeted me in a wet soapy birthday suit when I arrived home from work. I was carpooling at the time, and I was the passenger when the driver dropped me off at home. He smiled and chuckled, I did the same. The picture is etched in my brain for the rest of my life. LOL

 

I did that once... of course the picture is etched in the freaking family photo album, not just anyone's brain. thanks so much, mom. ...

 

not to be sappy or anything but....

everyday I come home from work..open the door and my son comes bolting for the stairs with the biggest grin on his face saying "dadda!, dadda!".. It's the best feeling for two reasons..
1. It's just awesome to have a little someone call you dad and be so excited to see you when you come home
2. I reminds me of when I was a kid jumping off the top of the stairs and having my father catch me when he came home from work.

Good times.. Good memories

 

Greetings all,,We had a wonderfull Saturday, Our daughter turned 13,,yes YIKES the teen years are here , We had a Lazer Tag party of 10 teens,,or almost teens,they all had a BLAST !!! It just seems like yesterday , I watched her grey shin pinken with her first breaths of air,the gloriest of feelings of walking on cloulds ,,telling my wife, (who just had a C section shivering under the blankets),,,"HUN we have to have another !!!", The reply was DROP DEAF,,ROFL,,,she was hurting big time LOL,,all since forgiven, and we have yet to have another,,,but we keep in practice WINK, Thanks for the memories, and hope you all find this amusing, Glenn .

 

Josh says we have to have 2 more, one of each, or else until we get a boy. I told him we can have as many kids as he wants, if he grows them himself.

I do want another baby... Im just $3000 in the hole, so it wont happen until thats fixed and we're out of this apartment.

 

Practically EVERY Monday is a good day for me, since it's usually my weekend. I work my butt off Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and then on Monday I get to sleep in, make breakfast, read the paper...yup! Mondays are fantabulous!

For instance, today. Saturday, I worked 9am to 1:45am. Sunday, I worked 8am to 2am. Now, I'm sitting here in my fuzzy bathrobe and slippers drinking coffee, and my only wish is that the Jehovah's Witness hadn't rung the doorbell and woken me up. But, since she was here shortly before I'd have woken up on my own, even that's not too bad.

 

Dick Rutan's group today made their second flight to space in under 2 weeks to win the X-prise. What does that mean to you and me? Today, nothing, anymore than Lindberg's Spirit of Saint Louis crossing the Atlantic for the first time changed lives back then. And he did it for a cash prize too, which was what the X-prize was modeled on.

But it's as historic a day as Lindberg's was folks. The frontier just got pushed back another notch.

 

read that this morning.. Most exciting news indeed!

 

Only by you guys, and Russia to a lesser extent. Although Japan and China seem to be getting interested. Nasa will be on the leading edge for a LONG time to come; space isn't cheap or easy. But we won't conquer space (if that's even possible) until civilians and industry can get there too. Cortez couldn't conquer America, it took the civvies setting up camp to do that.

LOL. True. Although they are several zeroes short of a NASA project budget. I doubt Columbus brought back enough to get the Queen's jewels out of hock either. Frontiers & research never pay off quickly, but they do pay off in the long run. What amazes me is that private investors out there are dedicated enough to put their OWN money where their mouths are. Even without a guaranteed return. Who says interest in space is dead?

 

good points g.t. i just got done watching the bit about those guys on the internet. congrats to them for comleting the project, you have to hand it to them, thats was a difficult task no matter how much money you got.

eric

 

True. Althoug on a technological frontier, things don't always progress steadily. The knowledge base is pretty much there whenever somebody new wants to pick up the ball & try moving it further down field. Most of what NASA has learned over the years is available to industry and universities, so they don't have to spend billions re-inventing the wheel.

And the X-prize is just a baby step. It's one thing to REACH space, it's a far different thing to do anything functional once you get there. Orbital speeds and re-etry are still far beyond commercial/private ventures.

But give it enough time, and they'll be there.

 

space buses. here and there and back again by tuesday. now all they need is someplace to let off and there you go. future in the making.

 

For what? It's the truth. I'm a dreamer, but a realistic one. I won't live to see common, affordable, safe space travel for the common man. Most of the adults that scratched their heads over the two nuts at Kitty Hawk didn't live long enough to see safe global air traffic take over from trains, buses, and ships, but it happened. Space is a larger step than the air, and will take longer, but we'll get there, if we are around long enough.

That's as it should be. You guys don't own space, you're just the first explorers. Lewis and Clark had no intention of owning the entire Northwest Territory. They broke the way for those that would follow. Long, dangerous, making it up as they went along. They were crazy. My great-great aunt went to Washington by wagon train as a kid. Quite a few in that wagon train didn't make it. When I was 16 we took a summer vacation to visit her, well into her 80s then, and still darned independent, and other relatives out west. A few safe easy days on the Interstate, sight-seeing along the way. Lewis & Clark easily envisioned the wagon trains, but neither of them could have pictured whizzing along at 80 MPH, listening to the radio in air conditioned comfort, with a flat tire the biggest threat. My grandad broke horses in Kansas when he was 18, and lived to see Man walk on the moon. Never underestimate the ability of the human race to expand its horizons, and make them our own.

 

Anybody remember the movie or tv show, can't remember, about salvaging all the debri in space? Andy Griffith was the owner of a salvage company and built a salvage ship for space exploration. It was really an interesting concept.

Steve

 

It was a movie. I don't remember the name of it, but yeah, it was a cute movie.