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From the “Blue Origin Crosses Our Line” Dept:
Congratulations to Jeff Bezos and the intrepid crew on the first human crew flying aboard the New Shepard rocket for a successful mission above the line and back safely to the Earth! The line in question is one every Hungarian should be proud of because it’s *OUR* line denoting the internationally recognised altitude where a craft is considered to have entered space. This is important for regulatory and jurisdictional purposes as aircraft and spacecraft operate…
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From the “You Just Can’t Beat Dr Blunt’s Honesty” Dept:
In a manner of confession, this is exactly the thought I have when I’m filling up the Traverse at the petrol station and not just when the stations spike the prices thanks to the crisis du jour… 😉 I didn’t expect the people running the Colonial Pipeline to be IT wizards but when you’re part of an industry that has more money than God, I do think it reasonable to expect that people who are…
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From the “It’s A Great Time To Be A Nerd” Dept:
Sir Richard Branson and the crew of Virgin Galactic’s “Unity 22” mission just completed a successful trip to the edge of space topping out at an altitude of 282,000 feet. That’s enough to make each of the members of the crew an astronaut and the era of citizens being able to experience space without having to go through the many years of training to become a professional astronaut is now upon us. I don’t care…
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From the “It’s Been Quite a While” Dept:
It’s been a very long time since I dusted off a particular recipe that comes to me from my Aunt Judy…her lemon velvet cake. I honestly can’t remember the last time I’d made it but it’s easily got to be 15 years or more. It’s not that I don’t like this cake…it’s easily my favourite by far. And it’s not particularly hard to make once you get past making some rookie mistakes on the first…
From the “Blithely Unaware of Irony” Dept:
Today we were visiting Julia’s old neighbourhood in Clayton to see how her house was holding up many years after it had been sold after we got married. We hadn’t even gotten near her house when we saw a yard that even Fred Sanford would have been moved to a one word observation: DAMN! We can only imagine just how thrilled that neighbourhood must be with a junkyard in their midst. But then we saw…
From the “Bloomington Must Really Love Us” Dept:
It seems like it was less than a week ago Nicholas had successfully earned a regular Class C driving licence and we were testing the waters vis-a-vis a car for him to use with the expectation of being lucky enough to find one by August. Oh wait, it was! And now we find ourselves with a black 2011 Toyota Camry LE in the driveway far sooner than we would have ever expected would be possible…
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From the “Beware All Ye Who Drive Here!” Dept:
You might have noticed a recurring theme of “adulting sucks” in the previous posts when it comes to Nicholas and his impending driving being inflicted upon the driving public. One last obstacle remains…surviving the DMV licence examiners! Visits to DMV’s licence offices are often such a joy and the weather certainly seems to be setting the mood alternating between brooding and overcast to dropping a fair heap of rain! We’ve armed Nicholas with as many…
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From the “Welcome to Adulting Sucks (DMV Edition)!” Dept:
Today’s the day Nicholas and I assault the mighty mountain of bureaucracy known as the NC DMV and attempt to get his regular Class C driving licence at his appointment in North Raleigh this afternoon! Oh…joy. Welcome to “Adulting Sucks (DMV Edition)!” If you’ve not experienced the joys of getting a REAL ID from the DMV’s driving licence offices, you truly have not lived a full life! Sherman…set the Wayback Machine(tm) for a couple of…
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From the “Dad In His Happy Place” Dept:
Another Father’s Day has come upon us and I’d like to continue a new tradition of finding a random picture of Dad and giving you dear readers a glimpse into the story behind the photo. This one comes from our visit to Florida during Thanksgiving in 2008. The picture seems innocuous enough…two of the kid’s three living grandparents at the time and two of the kids beating on the drums outside the Harambe Wildlife Preserve…
From the “Now I Understand Why Dad Didn’t Smile!” Dept:
It’s been less than a week since Nicholas graduated from Enloe High School and he has gotten to experience many of the unbridled joys of adulting up close and personal this morning! There’s a reason they call this “the real world” and many more reasons why it occasionally sucks! We started out the day registering him for his automotive courses for the fall semester at Wake Technical Community College’s new Shangri-La for learning wrench turning…
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