Can you feel it? We're just about there.

I heard it in my best friend of fifty years voice a few days ago. At 74 years of age and close to the end of the 10 year timeline he was given after his major heart attack, I would have thought that he would want to enjoy life in his new found home in the state of Florida. Given his condition I would have thought that he would want to take life easy in what's left of his time in this realm. I wanted to talk of old times, good times, of old friends, of family, about our lengthy friendship through thick and thin, of our lives well traveled. All he wanted to talk about was how ready and willing he was to fight to the end. I could sense the panic and fear in his voice, it was palpable.

Do We Need To Be This Scared?

I was with a friend a few days ago. She is planning a trip from Seattle to Chicago by train in July. She's 'old'; she's 76 or so. The train trip sounds fun to me and to her! Some of her other friends have advised her to get a burner phone (Gjohnsit posted a comment about these a few days ago) and a burner laptop, with nothing on them but maybe games, in case she's stopped by the police or TSA (really, on an in-country train trip?) and she's detained and her phone and laptop are confiscated and searched because she is 'suspicious'. Do they actually do this kind of searching of people on trains as well as airplanes? Any passenger? I've not heard of it happening on trains, I have to admit.

Daffodils in the garden, because, SPRING!!!

It is good to have an end to the journey towards; but it is the journey that matters,
in the end.

I'm trying to figure out what the purpose of the all female suborbital space shot was all about.
They had no control and were just passengers in an automatous rocket that basically went up and came back down.