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And no matter how much inspirational crap you try to tell yourself, it doesn't make one bit of difference. Blah blah blah. Dump.........

So I guess NASA is having a contest to pick wake-up call music for the last two space shuttle missions. They have sent wake up calls (unless there were two shifts working) since the Gemini missions. I've been reading through a document that lists them all. Lots of fight songs, military songs, etc. My favorites so far have been: Robin Williams announcing "Good Morning Discovery" in classic "Good Morning Vietnam" style, in 1981 they were twice awoken by Pigs in Space muppet routines, and finally the following from 1991:

"Space - the final frontier.
This is the voyage of the Space Shuttle Atlantis -
Its ten-day mission:
To explore new methods of remote sensing and observation of the planet Earth -
To seek out new data on radiation in space, and a new understanding of
the effects of microgravity on the human body -
To boldly go where two hundred and fifty-five men and women have gone before.
Hello - Fred, Tom, Story, Jim, Tom, and especially Mario -
This is Patrick Stewart, choosing not to outrank you as Captain Jean-Luc Picard,
saying that we are confident of a productive and successful mission.
Make it so."
All this to the theme music of "Star Trek - the Next Generation" Capcom Marsha Ivins contacted actor Patrick Stewart to request the special wakeup call for Mario Runco, a big "Star Trek" fan. - taken from http://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf

A few weeks ago we got to see a ton of C-47s and DC-13s (WWII planes, military and civilian versions, respectively) at a fly-in at the county airport. They were meeting up here for the last time all together and then flying to Osh Kosh. Pretty neat. John Travolta came. Oooo. ;)


Ethan's even sporting his aviator glasses.




We went into the "oldest" C-47. After WWII it served in the Israeli Air Force.

I saw these and immediately thought they were filled with pasta. I've watched too much Vicar.

"I want four oxen and all the bullets $1600 will buy." "Don't you want any food or spare parts?" KILLS ME. Too funny.

Garrgh... I really want this. $200 for the blurays...eesh. But if you think about it that's $33 per season which isn't really that bad. My birthday's next week anyone want to pitch in. :)