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Today my son had friends round after karate for a birthday tea with him.
They had consoles set up on each of the TV's in the house and also had a NERF war across all three floors.
My son even insisted that they have a game of pass the parcel and picked 'Barbie Girl' for the music as he thought it was funny.
Not sure that my wife was particularly calm though when half a dozen parachute men made it down the main stair past her crystal chandelier....
They all thoroughly enjoyed themselves though.
CN 331 rounds the bend at Denfield Road just outside of London as it heads West towards Komoka, Melrose and eventually Sarnia. 331 had BCOL 4623 (GE C40-8M) and CN 2250 (ES44DC). Yes BC Rail (BCOL) 4623 is a GE although it looks similar to its competitor, EMD/GMD's, SD60F, SD40-2F and SD50F locomotives. These GE C40-8M's were exclusive to Canadian railways when they were built in the early 90s. Only CN, BC Rail and the QSN&L purchased them. Today CN is the only railway that still exists out of those three as BC Rail was bought by CN and the QSN&L was sold to AEX. The double ditch lights was an added feature to all of BC Rail's locomotives as far as I know. The added set of ditch lights was for use in the Rocky Mountains to detect rock slides on the rails. CP Rail had something similar on some of their passenger locomotives in the form of spot lights on the roofs of the locomotives although they were used more for nighttime sightseeing as the Canadian went through the mountains. These were on FP9's.
today
the last day of november
packing my calendar
the first orders coming in
november
i don't know
you have been beautiful in the beginning
rocky in the middle
and i think i am at peace with you now
practicing gratitude was the best and very helpful
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November 27, 2015
Almost all of the dog sits I did this Thanksgiving week.
There are a few missing from the large group on the top left. Going from that large group all the way around.
1st pic- Mojo, Moose, Max, Olivia, Bailey, Maggie, Bella. Not pictured is Muggsie. 2nd pic- Charlie. 3rd pic- Reina. 4th- Atticus, 5th- Jasper, Molly, and Gus. 6th- Scout. 7th- Max. 8th-Basie. Middle pic- Springer.
City Sightseeing Cardiff MCW Metrobus MK2 331-F31XOF was new to West Midlands Travel 3031 seen in Cardiff
I made my first decent rice pudding today!! It was delicious!
I've made them a few times before (the cheap, easy versions, not the real Mexican way I grew up with) and just hated it. This time around it was fantastic.
I look forward to my first attempt at the real deal, next time!
Seriously, you guys. It was so good.
the simplicity of a folding chair, the strong materials that seem rigid, reminds me that it really is very simple to be flexible.
a year of living positively, day 331
28 NOV 14
*Catching up*
This was Friday, day after Thanksgiving. Our dear guest B---the near next to perfect guest/new fam I could ask for. I have no complaints about her at all except that she does not believe in sleep whatsoever. I was exhausted after last night and I thought she would be too having woken up at 8 am to help with the preparation madness, but no, she wanted to talk again last night and kept me up, so it was hard waking up this morning, but boy am I glad I was up and at 'em, because it was time for a trip to NASA.
I am a total admitted nerd, and NASA is home to the kings and queens of nerdom respectfully. Apparently B might very well have been the biggest nerd of us all reading every single thing there was to read to the point where my dad and I were three galleries away, and we had to backtrack to find her.
If you have never been to NASA Space Center, let me explain it. It, first of all, is huge. Think of a large college campus and multiply that by 2. Unlike most touristy things you may go to, it is actually a working facility where you get to see the real astronauts training if there is a mission, real life mission control, you get to see the real life rocks taken from the moon, etc. They say everything is big in Texas, and this place will only verify that for you. I WISH we could have gotten to go on the last of the 3 tram tours to the gigantic swimming pool where astronauts train to simulate weightlessness on earth. It is HUGE because they have to be able to fit an entire mockup of the space craft inside of it for training purposes.
Ugh, I love this place dearly and I always come away secure in the knowledge that 1) I am much too dumb to be a part of the NASA world, 2) I am forever amazed at the amount of parts required to built one rocket and that each of these not only has to be created, but installed, and triple checked before each mission 3) The beauty of humanity working together for a singular amazing cause...which is now headed towards 2030, to get to Mars.
So exciting. I spend 90% of the time going oooo, aaaaa, eeeeeee like a little kid.
Today we had the distinct pleasure of visiting the brand new mission control center for the Orion mission which is sending a rocket to out to I believe, chart a path for future Mars exploration. We learned that each person works 3, 8 hour shifts with an hour in between so that crew one can hand over to crew two, and so forth. Each station has about 4-5 computers and each person is communicating with about 20 people at one time in their earpiece. There is also a required agent of the foreign countries who speaks their language in case of any discrepencies, and each astronaut on a mission is REQUIRED by the end of their 5 month stint on the International Space Station to be fluent in the visiting nations language.
Coming up next featured in the top left image is a brand new mock up of the challenger piggy back riding on top of an aircraft which will allow visitors to go inside both vessels and see what the astronauts see as they come back to earth. Now you've seen it on the news---this is true to size. I mean, its is just jaw dropping.
I think for B, this was truly a brand new experience. I don't think there was ever such a focus on NASA or space travel when she was in school--kind of literally a foreign concept, but for us, we grew up with this right in our backyard, there are no school children that have not gone on at least 1 trip here, and of course we remain ever etched in the memories of mankind with the whole, "Houston we have a problem" and more important, the first word ever on the moon, "Houston, Tranquility Base, the Eagle has landed."
After all was said and done, I bought a year long membership. Yes! Had to do it. Tomorrow, is the road trip, yesss!