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I have no flamin' clue how or why I ended up with the "uber-cool" 2%, unless it's because I know I'm a doof & answered that way? I certainly feel dumb & awkward, often enough....

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Author unknown; sighted on bipolypagangeek :

We, the United States of America, your top quality supplier of ideals of democracy, would like to apologize for our 2001-2008 interruption in service. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service outage has been located, and the software responsible was replaced November 4. Early tests of the newly installed program indicate that we are now operating correctly, and we expect it to be fully functional from this point forward. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the outage. We look forward to resuming full service and hope to improve in years to come. We thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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:: blink, blink ::  Oog.  Grble.

We hauled our sorry heinies to the hospital by 5:30 a.m. to discover that the surgeon had called in sick in the middle of the night.  (Which is a good thing—better he should be home oopin' & poopin' than trying to do bypass surgery!)  So L.'s surgery will be tomorrow, Wednesday, instead.  Same bat time, same bat channel.  ;-)

We are going BACK TO BED.  Zzzzzzzz....

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Next Tuesday, June 3rd, my dear spouse is having open-heart surgery (a double bypass operation). I'm optimistic about the operation & we're fantastically lucky to have found out about the problem, have medical insurance, have a bit of savings to tide us over the loss of income, etc. ... but I'm still scared, from time to time. Later this month we hope to celebrate our 10th wedding/handfasting anniversary. (Please, God. Please, Goddess.)

Good wishes, majick, prayers & positive energy will be most gratefully received, both Tuesday morning & in the coming weeks. I don't know when I'll be back online--the hospital does not seem to have public Internet access--so assume that "no news is good news" & keep a good thought for us, please.

If you hanker for tedious details check out my ohikennedy LJ entry. Lots of medicalese but not a lot more substance, when all's written & read.

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 Monday, March 31st, is the last day to suggestion a name for NASA's GLAST satellite. GLAST (the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) is scheduled to launch in May 2008.

NASA won't name a satellite or mission after a living person. Since that is, unfortunately, no longer an issue in Sir Clarke's case, I suggest that anyone who is interested nominate one of the following 2 names for the GLAST:

ARTHUR C. CLARKE (for his contributions as a science fiction and technical writer; promoter of the ideas of geostationary satellites for telecommunications and of space elevators; and for his personal love of learning and adventure)

SENTINEL (in honor of Clarke's short story, "The Sentinel," which was the basis for the novel and screenplay "2001: A Space Odyssey," written in collaboration with Stanley Kubrick)

Suggest a name for the GLAST at http://glast.sonoma.edu:81/glastname/

See more information about Arthur C. Clarke at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke and http://www.clarkefoundation.org/

See more information about "The Sentinel" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_%28short_story%29

More GLAST info at http://www.nasa.gov/glast

Thanks to the resplendent  folkmew for suggesting this & goosing me to actually follow through with the nomination, & to  carolffor suggesting Sentinel as another possible name.  Now go do it!

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"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."   —Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

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