A volunteer adjusts the schedule board at Wikimania 2007. The board indicates the times and locations at which events will take place, thus assisting participants in deciding which events they can attend.Kat Walsh - Own work
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Commentary
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Routine.
Performed as part of a regular procedure.
A sequence of actions regularly followed.
What experience has taught us the most efficient or pleasurable orderly checklist.
Stay in that routine and what needs to be done gets done.
Stray at your peril.
And yet, we do stray.
Often.
A lot of the times for social occasions.
Last week I had a lengthy family reunion.
Yesterday was an all-day trip to NYC and back.
Tomorrow I host a dinner party.
Cumulatively, the effect has been a continuing scramble to do the most important, permitting to others to wither.
Hopefully to be revived soon.
Today.
A breather.
Pretty amazing how much we can get done when we have zero distractions.
And yet, when we have zero distractions, we quickly begin to wonder, “Am I losing my social connections?”
“Have I showered recently?
But not today.
Must be at my most productive.
Back to routine.
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Announcements
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Starting with today, the new delivery system is on life support.
As far as I can tell it never delivered.
I hand sent yesterday’s blog.
Oh well. Back to the drawing boards.
Thank you again for your patience.
In fact, the blog is growing fast enough to warrant a request for volunteer help.
From writing to mailing list enrichment to research, something fun for someone looking for a hobby related to the written word.
If interested, contact Dom: domcapossela@hotmail.com
For the next several days temperatures in Boston will stay in the sixties. And then the weather people promise temperatures in the welcome seventies.
Let’s make sure we enjoy each day coming.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Our 421st consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 421 posts we’re at the 8.42 percentile of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Time is 4.01am.
On Sunday, Boston’s temperature will reach a high of 66* with a feels-like of 68* with a chane of thunderstorms.
Dinner Saturday night was Roast Beef Hash. At an eating place called home. Extraordinary.
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Question of the Day:
Sunday, June 2, 2019
What was the Apollo program?
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Chuckle of the Day:
Sunday, June 1, 2019
On their 40th wedding anniversary, they were quarreling.
The husband yells, "When you die, I'm getting you a headstone that reads: ‘Here Lies My Wife - Cold As Ever’”
"Oh Yeah?" she replies.
"When you die, I'm getting you a headstone that reads: ‘Here Lies My Husband - Stiff At Last.’"
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Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Web Meister:
Sally C sent this letter which places her in the center of rural New Hampshire as certainly as Tommie T places herself in South Carolina. This first paragraph relates to the recent posting on South Carolina.
Sally:
Another tidbit or two about South Carolina: It has always been a strong advocate of independence. It threatened to secede in the early 1830s when certain federal tariffs were enacted, which its leaders perceived as damaging to their economy, and of all the states to secede in 1860-61, South Carolina is the only one that supported the Southern cause entirely. At least one pro-Union regiment came out of every other seceded state.
Web Meister: Sally is working to ensure the voices of older people have an outlet.
She’s already, herself, contributed much to the blog. Here’s she updating us:
Sally:
I'm working on another possible "senior slice-of-life" post for you. Don't know when it will get done, but surely within a week. Colleen is organizing a meeting of us "editors" on the senior writing workshop project.
Web Meister: And her she is placing herself smack dab in the middle of rural New Hampshire, exactly the folks we are hoping to post regularly with us. It’s history.
Sally:
Enjoy this improving weather! I'll be off to NH tomorrow, to my mother's annual town fair, Madbury Day, which is chock full of clean, old-fashioned home-town fun. I'll be playing the fife in the parade to honor the town's veterans. Not many people watch the parade, because just about everyone in Madbury (pop. 2000+) is in it!
Apollo insigniaOriginal: NASA Vector: Lommes - Own work based on: Apollo program insignia.png
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Answer to the Question of the Day:
Sunday, June 2, 2019
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.
First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961.
It was the third US human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by the two-man Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo.
Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Apollo Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command and service module (CSM), and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.
Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve men walked on the Moon.
Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first crewed flight in 1968. It achieved its goal of crewed lunar landing, despite the major setback of a 1967 Apollo 1 cabin fire that killed the entire crew during a prelaunch test.
Buzz Aldrin (pictured) walked on the Moon with Neil Armstrong, on Apollo 11, July 20–21, 1969
NASA - http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5903HR.jpg http://www.archive.org/details/AS11-40-5903 (TIFF image)
Short description: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon
Full description: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, stands on the surface of the moon near the leg of the lunar module, Eagle, during the Apollo 11 moonwalk.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, mission commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera.
While Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the lunar module to explore the Sea of Tranquility, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained in lunar orbit with the Command and Service Module, Columbia.
This is the actual photograph as exposed on the moon by Armstrong.
He held the camera slightly rotated so that the camera frame did not include the top of Aldrin's portable life support system ("backpack").
A communications antenna mounted on top of the backpack is also cut off in this picture.
When the image was released to the public, it was rotated clockwise to restore the astronaut to vertical for a more harmonious composition, and a black area was added above his head to recreate the missing black lunar "sky".
The edited version is the one most commonly reproduced and known to the public, but the original version, above, is the authentic exposure.
A full explanation with illustrations can be seen at the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.
My routine is in here.
Today it is seven squares of paper cut from my discarded 8x11s, each square listing a stop during the day.
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Good Morning on this Sunday, the second day of June, 2019
Our commentary dealt with getting back into routine.
We posted the weather report, ticked off the calendar, and tracked the number of our postings.
Today we’re duplicating the postings in some cases because Mail Chimp did not delivery yesterday’s blog. So sorry. Trying to get a handle on it. Meeting Wednesday with my tech support.
And we ask for volunteer help with working on the blog.
We posted another chuckle and a rich letter from Sally.
And we recalled the Apollo Program.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.