Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Random mutterings
First blog post was 21 years ago!
Old enough to go out to the bar for a drink most everywhere now.
Post volume hasn’t gone up like I planned or thought it might a few years ago. I’ve definitely got more projects to ramble on about, but the free time thing is lacking. I’ll just keep posting when I can I suppose.
The small handful of email subscribers to this blog might have noticed the lack of email notifications of new posts for the last little while.
I had been running into some weird blog posting issues that I thought might have been due to the Jetpack plugin, so I removed it a while back. The blog posting issues seemed to go away, so I went along on my merry way.
I’d forgotten that email subscriptions were handled by Jetpack until someone asked recently. I’ve reinstalled the Jetpack plugin, and hopefully won’t run into those weird problems I had with it before.
Everybody piled into the Ark to make the journey to visit the new baby.
Meanwhile, Cmd Data was organizing the away team of Wise Men from the East. He’ll make sure the Wise Men get to where they need to go.
Shepherds from the countryside have arrived with their sheep and cows to marvel at the new baby.
The Ark has arrived, and it didn’t take long for everybody to disembark.
A new visitor this year is Smok the Dragon, from Krakow Poland.
Update 2024-01-06: The wise men from the east made it thanks to Data’s skillfull navigation.
A few weeks ago, the stove top light bulb in our microwave burned out. A trip to the local big box hardware store yielded a bulb that looked like it would work, but turned out to be too long to fit.
Connie was putting some stuff into a drawer of her mom’s sewing machine table, and I noticed there was a light bulb in the drawer. It was still in the original packaging and unopened. I stared at it a bit, and she knew exactly what I was thinking. Looked about the same size as the microwave bulb. Got the old light bulb to compare, and they were pretty much the same size.
Put the bulb into the microwave and it worked perfectly!
Talk about a serendipitous find. Never know where you’ll end up finding something you need.
Connie says, “Thanks, Mom!”
Most of the SpaceX Falcon launches we see from the house are Dragon CRS missions headed toward the ISS, so I wasn’t expecting to be able to see today’s Falcon Heavy USSF-67 launch since it was supposed to be headed to a geosynchronous orbit.
We stepped outside to have a look anyway just in case and much to my surprise, we saw the exhaust trail pretty clearly a little bit lower toward the horizon. This photo was a couple minutes after the launch and just after the side boosters separated.
Here the side boosters have begun turning back toward their landing pads while the center booster continues on.
The two side boosters are visible as two specks of light. After this, we could see them flash every now and then as their steering jets fired.
This was the first time we’d seen a Falcon Heavy and the two side boosters from the house. It was pretty cool.