On our road trip, I accused Country in general and Luke Bryan in particular of word salad. My wife changed it to a Classic station which finished a Pearl Jam song and started playing Smells Like Teen Spirit. I lost the argument.
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40 years ago I was in FL field as I watched the Challenger take off. The images and the look on my dad's face at etched in my memories. "I don't think that's supposed to happen" he said after the first explosion. "Come inside Jacob" after the second.
40 Years ago Barbara Morgan watched as Challenger lifted off with a crew she'd got to know well.
She was the backup for the teacher in space program.
We all know what happened to the shuttle, and it's understandable that many people would see this and never want to fly on it.
Barbara returned to teaching but would be offered another opportunity to become an astronaut in 1998, she was still working as an elementary school teacher at that time.
She trained again and was expected to fly on STS-118, assigned to Columbia, while preparing for this flight she would be on a jet that was supposed to meet Columbia after it returned from space.
Again she had a front row seat to a shuttle disaster.
She was undeterred and would ultimately fly to the ISS on Endeavour in 2007, leading lessons from space.
We all hear about fearless test pilots, but less about fearless elementary school teachers.
@BaptistBlogger We aren't the target audience for that Insta. The post does an adequate job of signaling to high schoolers that the college is fun and girls go there.
Home internet outage going into its 4th hour. I got a deprioritized carrier this year and saved big. Now I'm stuck with dial up speeds sharing towers w/people who pay more in the outage. I choose to complain rather than exercise. Hope this outage is over soon. All my love-J