| Friday, November 27th, 2009 |
| 11:51 am |
Weather was picture perfect for Thanksgiving 2009
It's truly amazing how nice the weather was for Thanksgiving 2009. Temperatures here were in the upper 60's to around 70 or so, and down in the Los Angeles Basin and Inland Empire, temperatures were in the upper 70's to low 80's! Mornings are naturally a bit on the cool side, but the weather was good. I spent the day watching home alone, the classic Christmas movie from 1990, as it was on all day yesterday on the FX network. I wish they had ran at least Home Alone 1 and 2 instead of just Home Alone, as they are both good movies. Something else that was kind of neat that happened over this Thanksgiving, was that the crew of space shuttle Atlantis on shuttle mission STS-129 was on orbit, enjoying their final day in space. This was the 8th time that the space shuttle has been on orbit over the Thanksgiving holiday, and I believe it was the first and likely only time that the space shuttle was on orbit on 2 consecutive Thanksgiving holidays. Last year STS-126 was on orbit during Thanksgiving as well. Today, just about 5 hours ago, space shuttle Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on time and with no issues at all. In fact, the STS-129 mission was the smoothest mission I've seen in quite a while. It launched on time, landed on time as well on the first attempt, and even during the flight, they were able to not only acomplish their planned objectives, but they also were able to do several get ahead tasks during their 3 space walks, as they finished all planned tasks early. The STS-129 mission was also neat because during the launch, NASA invited 100 people to view the launch from the KSC press site, during the NASA tweetup. I can only imagine how awesome that must have been for those that got to participate in that event. There are now just 5 space shuttle missions left in the entire shuttle program! It'd be cool if I could make it out for the last shuttle launch ever, but I'm not holding my breath on that one. The next flight for the shuttle will be in early February around February 6 or so, and the next flight for Atlantis will be in May 2010 on STS-132. The holiday shopping season has now officially begun, as today is black Friday, and my roomates Kiera and Robert ar out finding deals as I write this. It's tempting to get a 1.5TB hard drive for my computer, but I really gotta try and save my money if I want to have any chance of going to the ACB national convention next July which I'm really hoping to be able to do. And that my friends, is pretty much all the exciting news I have from here. Everyone have a safe rest of the holiday weekend. Hope everyone didn't get too stuffed. |
| 12:03 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Thursday, November 26th, 2009 |
| 12:03 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 |
| 12:03 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 |
| 12:04 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Monday, November 23rd, 2009 |
| 12:04 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 |
| 12:03 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Saturday, November 21st, 2009 |
| 12:03 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Friday, November 20th, 2009 |
| 12:07 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 |
| 12:03 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 |
| 12:03 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 |
| 11:47 pm |
Cool weather and STS-129 launches on time.
It's most certainly no longer summer, with temperatures plunging in to the upper 20's to low 30's in the mornings in recent days around here, and high's in the low to mid 60's tops. When our weather changes, it sure happens fast. Not much in the way of rain though. It's been 11 months since that freak rare snow event that hit the Antelope Valley and dumped 8 inches of snow on the valley floor back on December 17, 2008, and I wonder if we'll see anything like that this season. Yesterday, the launch of STS-129 occured at 11:28 AM Pacific time, taking space shuttle Atlantis to the international space station. And for once, unlike the previous I don't know how many missions, this flight got off the ground on time on the first attempt with 0 issues during the launch countdown. It was the smoothest space shuttle launch countdown since early this year. If only STS-127, the launch which I saw in person, had gone this smoothly. Last night I got a nice surprise. I got a phone call from Robert, who was out visiting a friend, and he wanted me to turn my TV to channel 234. When I did so, I discovered I was watching NASA TV. NASA TV is free to air and for cable companies to carry on their networks, yet even with Edwards Air Force Base being right here in the Antelope Valley service area of Time Warner Cable (TWC), NASA TV has not been carried for some time. Back in the 90's, our local channel 3 would periodically give us NASA TV during portions of shuttle missions. But I haven't seen even that in many years now. TWC carried every channel I'd want to watch except NASA TV, and that very fact had me considering the possibility of switching to satellite TV, where I'd for sure get NASA TV. With the discovery of Time Warner Cable carrying NASA TV at least for the moment on channel 234, I can officially say that I can get all TV networks and channels I'd want to watch via TWC. I don't know if NASA TV will be a permanent part of the lineup, or if it's just around on the cable network for this mission, but I'll take advantage of it regardless. Interestingly, the main channel lineup for my area on the web does not show that channel 234 is part of the lineup. I'm therefore also not sure if others in Southern california serviced by TWC are getting NASA on their lineups, but I hope that at least some folks are, and that this isn't limited to just the Antelope Valley. Though even if it is just limitted to the Antelope Valley, it's being carried in a service area which contains both Edwards Air Force base, as well as Plant 42 in Palmdale, where alot of the shuttle was worked on, so I won't complain. Now I just have to find my patch cables that allow me to connect my computer to my digital cable box, so I can record NASA TV and Space shuttle mission coverage, just as I did when I was in Palmdale last year. That's all the goings on from me at this point in time. 73 for now. |
| 12:03 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Monday, November 16th, 2009 |
| 12:05 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
| 12:04 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 |
| 12:05 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Friday, November 13th, 2009 |
| 12:04 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
| 12:03 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 |
| 12:04 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |
| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 |
| 12:06 am |
events of the past day
Here's what I've been up to over the last 24 hours. You don't have to read this, but you may miss something cool that may have happened that I may have forgotten to mention in this here blog. So read on. These daily entries are provided thanks to LoudTwitter |