To the astronauts...

I call myself Saturn. And it is because of you. And the vision of those before you.

You excel.
You achieve.
You inspire.

You reach for the stars expanding the potential of all men and women.

You are heroes and, in your honor and memory, we will continue to dream and fly forward.

Today, my thoughts are with all of the men and women of NASA who died in an attempt to reach beyond the confines of Earth and explore the unknown:

Gus Grissom- Apollo 1 fire
Ed White- Apollo 1 fire
Roger Chaffee- Apollo 1 fire
Ronald McNair- Challenger explosion
Ellison Onizuka- Challenger explosion
Judith Resnik- Challenger explosion
Francis Scobee- Challenger explosion
Michael Smith- Challenger explosion
Christa McAuliffe- Challenger explosion
Gregory Jarvis- Challenger explosion
Michael Anderson- Columbia explosion
David Brown- Columbia explosion
Kalpana Chalwa- Columbia explosion
Lauren Clark- Columbia explosion
Rick Husband- Columbia explosion
William McCool- Columbia explosion
Ilan Ramon- Columbia explosion

May your memory be for a blessing.

Nothing like porn in Kinkos to make you smile...

It's been a hell of a day. I hate to fly. (It's not a fear. It's a phobia.) And I was on Jet Blue so I watched 3 1/2 hours of straight NBC and MSNBC coverage on the way down. I suppose I could have changed the channel. But I needed to see. I've already what I needed to say about today's events. Except that I truly am crushed. I watched the Columbia launch on the 16th via the web. I was particularly excited about this one because of Ilan Ramon. *sigh*

So I am in Bonita Springs, FL. At Kinkos. Because my co-worker doesn't get in until 10:15pm and I had to get away from the damn TV. When I leave here, I'm thinking about driving over to the beach for a bit.

Anyway, here I am at Kinkos, roaming around LJ, when I see that allen_sama has posted a new JoeC graphic. What do I do? I open it up. Yeah. I should have learned my lesson after opening up a graphic by mdbl at an inopportune time. But I didn't. So there JC and Joey are in all of their naked glory on my screen at Kinkos. *g* I needed that. Apparently the person at the computer next to me did not.