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Showing posts with label Events. Show all posts
Thursday, September 10, 2026

On the 25th anniversary of 9-11

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For me, 9-11 always rolls in like a fog of memory.  Like the tragedies of JFK's assassination, space shuttle Challenger exploding o...
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Friday, July 3, 2026

Happy Independence Day - 2026

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I've run this post almost every July 4th in the 16 years I've been blogging.  There were only two years I didn't and both o...
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Sunday, June 21, 2026

Happy summer solstice!

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The Summer Solstice happened earlier this year than others I've checked before.  The exact minute of this years summer solstice was...
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Sunday, May 24, 2026

Memorial Day 2026

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A constantly evolving annual re-post.  For the 16+ years I've been blogging, I've tended to wonder how many more of any holida...
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Friday, April 10, 2026

Hard to think of a better conclusion to Artemis II than that

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For the last hour before splashdown and the first 20 minutes or so after it, I was watching the NASA feed as it happened. It seemed that ...
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Sunday, April 5, 2026

It's Resurrection Sunday - Happy Easter

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  It's Easter, Resurrection Sunday, and as I do regularly, I look at what I've posted for the major holidays in the past...
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Saturday, March 28, 2026

I Done Learnt Somethin New Today

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With thanks to Angus McThag at The Abode of McThag , because he posted a piece that made me aware of something called Earth Hour (or ...
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Monday, February 23, 2026

This may be my oddest post ever

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But it's still better than last year's. Last year's post was an awkward one about having forgotten it was this blog's ...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

In memory of Scott Adams

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A departure from the normal here due to Scott Adams' passing away sometime between Monday night and this morning. I've known si...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Happy New Year 2026!

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New Year's Eve is upon us, and I just want to wish all of you a happy New Year.  By this time of the year, pretty much every year, ...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Christmas Eve 2025

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This year is the 57th anniversary of Apollo 8's lunar orbit mission . The crew, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders, spent ...
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Sunday, December 21, 2025

Winter Solstice 2025

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You can blame Tam at View From the Porch for leading me to this. I saw her celebrating the solstice in this morning's post and...
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Thursday, December 18, 2025

Yesterday Isaacman was named, today the Prez drops an EO

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I had planned to "call in sick" tonight, but it's not really sick, I just spent too much of the day working on plumbing -...
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Sunday, December 14, 2025

This is a big week

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This is a personal big week. This is the 10th anniversary of my retirement, my last week and last day of working. That was Friday, De...
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Sunday, December 7, 2025

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day musings

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This is just a simple suggestion to take a few seconds to remember it.  Pay respect to the WWII vets who fought and died there 84 years...
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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving

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It was a day to feel like things are pleasantly normal, rather than appearing to be in the opening moves of the Crusades 2.0 . Thursd...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Time for my annual Black Friday post

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Think it's early for that?  Black Friday is still the day after Thanksgiving? You must not get much junk email.  I swear I've b...
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Sunday, October 26, 2025

It's finally fall

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It's not like the weather has been that oppressive, it's just that we still haven't had a run of days where it stayed under...
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