I Love My Life

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh.

(Deep sigh of contentment...)

It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Well, it's only 7:30 am, 

so a little early to make an official

proclamation about the whole DAY.

But it was a beautiful morning in the neighborhood.

Sorry Mr. Rogers.

A nice cool breeze was blowing

through the house

as I made our chocolate / banana smoothies

and scrambled eggs with cheese & bacon.

Headed off to work driving the VW

this morning.  (Rod has to pick up some

hay after work so he's driving the truck...)

Counting down to when he drives it daily.

Once my office moves, I'll have (get) to drive

the car every day.

As I was driving along the river,

I glanced up and got to watch the successful

(so far) launch of a SpaceX rocket carrying

a new military spy satellite.

First military contract for SpaceX.

Way to do a great job guys!!!!!

This mission has a goal of landing the

stage 1 rocket back on Earth on a landing 

pad out at Cape Canaveral.

Since they have already successfully landed

it on a BARGE on the OCEAN 

(aka - moving postage stamp)

I'm not sure this is a very lofty goal.

Seems like they did it backwards.

Certainly if you can hit a tiny spot on the ocean,

a big ol' solid hunk of concrete on the ground

shouldn't be much of a challenge...

But they didn't ask me.

Anyway.

It's always beautiful to see them take off

as the sun is coming over the horizon.

The morning sun catches the rocket and the

stark white contrail and makes them shine

and sparkle like nothing else you've ever seen.

So beautiful!

I grabbed my phone to snap a picture to share

with y'all, but it appears my phone did an update

overnight and required tapping OK or something

and then restarting and all sorts of other nonsense

which is a really long explanation to say

NO PICTURE.

But trust me. It was beautiful.

Rod works at our local flight school.

Which is located just "over there" on the other side

of those trees next to my office.

(OK, and like a mile or two away... but whatever...)

This morning somebody was, I don't know,

practicing landings? Just getting started?

Not really awake?

Either way, they were flying LOW!

Like duck and carry an umbrella LOW.

Like I could nearly read the flight instructor's

name badge on his shirt.

(Not to mention the look on his face!  LOL)

Honey.

You might want to talk to them about that.

But it still put a smile on my face.

(And then I got to work and my "files" that were due

Friday (last day of the month) came this morning, which

is good news.  And I got an email that my supervisor

is out of the office today, which is good news...

so maybe Mr. Rogers was right all along!)

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In other news... update on my HUGE class this weekend.

I ended up testing 27 students. 

(new rule, if you don't complete your hours, 

you don't even get to TRY the final exam... 

I had a bunch who got sick,

 had work schedule conflicts, etc etc etc...) 

 Out of 27, I passed... wait for it... 

NINE. 

 Sigh.  

(In my defense, all but 2 of the ones who failed 

are Haitian and don't have a great handle 

on the English language - they did well 

answering oral questions, but reading the test 

was too much for them.  

But they'll get it... if they don't give up.)  

(Either way - somebody else's problem.) 

(More good news!)

MAKE IT A HAPPY MONDAY!