Chinese Long March 5B

watching the Chinese launch a Long March 5B with the first module of their new space station.

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Tornado Watch

woohoo! tornados. I understand one from this supercell was pretty destructive out west of us so it makes sense.

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Big Weather Night

Looks like one of those nights for us. KGRK - Super-Res Reflectivity Tilt 1 20:02 CDT #txwx

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Helocast

Had some fun today.

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Soon my dear, soon.

lovely morning

I like to sit out here in the mornings and take it all in. Today is threatening rain, and the humidity is high, but it’s a lovely morning.

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Delta IV Heavy

I appointment view pretty much any rocket launch conducted from the continental US. I just watched ULA launch a Delta IV Heavy from Vandenberg, CA, with a National Reconnaissance Office payload. I believe that was the first time I’ve ever seen a D IV launch without delay.

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We had a relatively short weekend. I took Friday off work since the whole family was getting vaccine dose two on Thursday. Given my experiences having been sick for two days, it seemed prudent. Thankfully they came through with only some fever and headaches.

We (well, by “we” I mean NASA via the JPL, and Ames aeronautics) flew a freakin’ helicopter on MARS.

#winning

Weekend

Well, it was an interesting weekend. Too short, as always, but somewhat rewarding and generally enjoyable. We closed it all out last night with a bit of dim sum. 👍🏼

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I’ve been thumbing through the micro.blog users that I see with similiar interests to me, so I have been following a few folks here the last two days. Hopefully this is the preffered method of developing this little network, and no one takes offense to it.

Dave

The weather is not on my side today it would appear, so a trainer day it is.

I got over it - the procrastination that is…

I’m currently procrastinating on going for an hour long bike ride. Some sort of nonsense in my mind about needed to “decompress” before I go…

Work and the day off.

I felt a need to put quotes around the “day off” portion of that sentence. Before one can consider answering it, you have to consider the phrase’s definition. I mean, a day off what? Work? There is work everywhere. When I come home each day, I know I have enough work waiting for me to never face much “leisure” time in my foreseeable future. Is it time away from my paying job?

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Hello World!

Proper start to the morning @coffeesock @cuveecoffee #coffeemug #coffeeporn

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Broken clutch lever. 😟#ducatilife #ducatisti #996

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"Woman! Where is my supersuit?!?" #armylife #incrediblesreference

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Ft Polk has a pretty good trail network - I do wish I'd brought my cross bike. #cxeveryday #missmybike

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