Family events!
Outstanding! Don, I admire that you took on both your wife’s family and your
own! Heroic! I get to do this next weekend. My son and his wife, from Bosnia on
their way to China, and my daughter and her family (the grand kids) will all be
here for a family reunion. Never in my adult-after-the-kids-left life did I
imagine that all seven of them would be staying at my house at the same time.
Where to put everyone! This will be an adventure! We are also close to closing the negotiations on whether or not our 13 year old granddaughter stays a week with us. We have
finally gotten all the logistics taken care of, now we’re down to whether or
not she wants to come.
Before I move
on, I want to say that the picture of the young woman, her mother, grandmother
is striking! Well done!
I’ve been
reminded that today, Saturday, is Moon Day – July 20th, 1969, Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed and
walked on the moon. I came home from a date and sat and watched this mind
shattering event on our small black and white TV in the back room. I remember
being amazed, thrilled and scared all at the same time. One of Wormhole’s
authors, Ariel Cinii, has suggested that July 20th should, by all accounts, be made a holiday – maybe even an international holiday. I agree. The
science that enabled us to walk on the moon has changed our lives. Why not
celebrate the crowning event? 
The science that
got us to the moon gave us Velcro, microchips, corning ware, flu shots, and
eventually led to many of our current necessities – the cell phone, the
computer, kevlar. Did you know that the simple calculators we use to add and
subtract on have more capability than the first computer that put man on the
moon? Most of the math was done on slip sticks, also known as a slide rule. My
dad had several, and taught me how to do basic multiplication, division,
fractions and decimals. I’d like to say “those were the days”, and they were.
Would I trade them? Probably not. 
I’ve been
plagued with computer problems again this week, (Ariel tells me Mercury
Retrograde which fouls up technology, ended early this morning) and I got to
thinking about the “good old days”. Typewriters – I always wanted a Selectra
that would go back and correct the misspellings without having to use liquid
white out. I also remember all those times I looked and looked and searched,
thought I had corrected all the problems, took the paper out of the typewriter
and low and behold – there was another mistake and I’ve have to type the page
again. It was better than having to write the paper by hand, but it was just as
frustrating.
Remember “erasable
ink”? I thought that was a mile stone in human advancement!
I’ve got the next Transport ezine, Transport
23, ready for publication and the web developers. It goes up the first Friday
in August. Spent most of yesterday on it. This one includes one of my stories –
Tracker – The Invitation. It also has the 4th episode of Touching
Lands Dance – the episode that leads up to the big finale (which will be in
September’s Transport ezine). I’m excited because we also showcase Colby
Elliott and one of his audio books. Our web developers figured out how to put
an audio sample on the website. To some of you that sounds rather elementary ,
but the website host is rather archaic. Time to find a different host and how
to migrate what we have has been very limited.
To the Riddle
cave: The riddle this week was picnic table. I imagine you’ve sat at one or two
over the last week, Don.
My guess for
yours is: clothes pin
And back to you:
Flapping
in the breeze
Harbinger
of dryer things to come
Hastily
put away when it rains
Well,
time to move on to house cleaning and laundry – the never ending have-to’s of
life.
Have
a great week everyone!
Carolyn
All
figures downloaded from google images:
Fig.1
– Footprint on moon - milnusblog.wordpress.com
Fig.
2 – Cell phone / superhero cape - www.picturesof.net
Fig.
3 Velcro myth - www.todayifoundout.com
Fig.
4 – Slide Rule - www.joernuetjens.de
Fig.
5 – smiling cat
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