Welcome to Space!  Day 3.

It's interesting how things pop up here at work.  I just found out that there is a Team Building excersize coming up.  Go ahead and groan.  If you been through these before, you know that they can sometime be quite the bore.  I have hopes, though.  The one that I'm going to is being held at our local Challenger Learning Center .  What's the event?

It's a simulated space mission .  Can you say... I'm in?  My concern is that people won't take it as seriously as I will.  Thoughts?

Since it appears that I'm on a space kick, I'll share this article from the BBC News website.  It's about the Russian-European replacement for the Soyus capsule .  It's resusable, which is always good.  Plus there's a nice little picture.  This is actually an nice followup to moving the ISS to a lunar orbit, because this is a way to move astronauts to and from the moon.  For you trekies out there... it would get us closer to building a starship at space based ship yard.  That would be neat.

I'm sure that you'll all love this idea.  Let's save billions of dollars!  How?  There's a way...

Many of you know that I'm a space enthusiast.  I actually watch orbiter landings... not just the launches.  Nasa TV?  It's fantastic during a shuttle flight.  Well, I recently read an article in the Washinginton Post (online) that has a good point about our nations proposed future moon landings.  Let's start by moving the ISS into lunar orbit . It's a good read and I've liked to the printable format so you get less of those pesky ad thingys.  Enjoy!  I hope to read some good comments about this!

Tonight we went to Sam's Club to check it out and if it was a place we wanted to join.  I was ready to join while I was in the parking lot and saw their carts.

The kids were so incredibly well behaved until we were about half way through our looking around and then we saw the time and realized the behavior was to be expected since it was almost bed time.

While we were there joining up, Jack was sitting in the cart where he’s not supposed to be sitting, Damion was doing the paperwork and I was running after Anna.  Little Man decided that he wanted to stand himself up.  Fortunately Damion caught him before he got up, that could have not been good.

Also you guys will never believe what Anna did last night.  While I was in the kitchen getting dinner out of the oven and Damion was in the office with Jack, Anna was climbing (big surprise, I know) between a dining chair and her high chair.  I heard a thud and instant crying.  I run out to find her on the floor with her hand over her right eye area.  Damion came up right away and …..kid you not……she hit the exact same spot as a week ago!  Fortunately she was talking and walking and stuff shortly after so no calls to the doctor.  She is fine this morning but she is starting to develop a slight black right eye.  Poor child.