I am not longer a cyborg, but I am a space nerd.
Had the staples removed yesterday. Went to a walk-in clinic in Howell, and waited an hour. I brought along the new little toy I got the other day, a portable DVD player, and watched Return of the Jedi with the director's commentary. For one of the few times I can ever recall, I had a hot techie item, and people who sat next to me asked about it. When the nurse came to call me in, the lady next to lamented, "Aww... no more movie!"
They took my blood pressure (110/74), weighed me (144lbs!), and pulled the staples. I was in for less than 10 minutes.
Today, I'm being an excited space nerd. Yes, that's the other side of me. I love NASA and space exploration. I was glued to the TV and NASA.gov last January when the two Mars probes, Spirit and Opportunity landed. I have hours of taped footage when Pathfinder landed on Mars in 1997, and one of my long standing childhood dreams is to go to Space Camp. Yes, friends, I am a space cadet.
Today, Huygens, a little UFO-shaped probe built by the European Space Agency, detached from the Cassini spacecraft floating around Saturn and made a 2.5 hour parachute decent to the surface of Titan. I remember reading about this 10 years ago in my favorite book at the time, Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. I'd carry it around me everywhere.
I've got CNN on now. Miles O'Brien is their cool space expert. The first data is coming in now, and the pictures should be ready by this evening! Wooo!
They took my blood pressure (110/74), weighed me (144lbs!), and pulled the staples. I was in for less than 10 minutes.
Today, I'm being an excited space nerd. Yes, that's the other side of me. I love NASA and space exploration. I was glued to the TV and NASA.gov last January when the two Mars probes, Spirit and Opportunity landed. I have hours of taped footage when Pathfinder landed on Mars in 1997, and one of my long standing childhood dreams is to go to Space Camp. Yes, friends, I am a space cadet.
Today, Huygens, a little UFO-shaped probe built by the European Space Agency, detached from the Cassini spacecraft floating around Saturn and made a 2.5 hour parachute decent to the surface of Titan. I remember reading about this 10 years ago in my favorite book at the time, Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. I'd carry it around me everywhere.
I've got CNN on now. Miles O'Brien is their cool space expert. The first data is coming in now, and the pictures should be ready by this evening! Wooo!