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Shuttle Program Suspended

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

Turns out, the launch might not have been so beautiful: NASA to Ground Shuttle Program Over Foam Debris

NASA suspended further flights of the space shuttle fleet on Wednesday after determining that a large piece of insulating foam had broken off the external fuel tank of the shuttle Discovery during

Shuttle Launch

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

Some great photos of yesterday’s shuttle launch can be found here.

Alabama/Massachusetts – What’s the Difference?

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

Apparently not a lot to highway sign makers and the residents of Easthampton, Mass.

House Boy Applications Now Being Accepted

Monday, July 25th, 2005

I should never have become a home owner. I’m just not responsible enough to be one. My house is a mess. Picking it up with be so easy, why won’t I? Most of my closet doors don’t work; I have a cabinet in the kitchen that I tape shut to …

On the News

Friday, July 15th, 2005

Here’s something I never thought I’d hear on the news:

I can’t find a Harry Potter anywhere.

My Mommy Saved Me

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

Mom killed the spider. I was just going to drive away tomorrow and let things fall where they may. I was too freaked out by it at night to do anything about it – daylight should have been better. Also, I did actually want to take a picture of …

Spider

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

There’s a huge spider on my carport. Since I parked my car there at about 7pm, it’s managed to build a 2 and a half foot wide web that’s attached to the carport and the car. I didn’t get too close (skeered!), but I swear it’s well over an inch …

Weather

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

They just said on the news that we’ve had 32 days in a row without rain, 32 days in a row with a high temperature over 90 and 4 days in a row with the temperature over 100. I hate summer.

Partial Success

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

Well, apparently, all it took was complaining about it for me to find them. Where were they? In the box my PowerBook arrived in. That makes sense, doesn’t it? I don’t even know why I still have the box – nor do I remember putting anything an it, but there …

Frustration

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

I’m so frustrated! It’s been one of those “little things after another” kind of day. After watching Davenport lose Wimbledon, I got up to buy air conditioner filters. When I got my new A/C, they gave me a ton of them, but I’ve worked my way through them. Turns out, …