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Aging

September 04, 2009 By: Thor Category: Personal No Comments →

Aging sucks.  I finally broke down and had my eyes checked… reading glasses suck.  I am not giving in easily to father time, and will fight to the end.  But, then things like this crop up and it puts this mental damper of reality on my ambitions fight the biological progression of age.

Got …. to …. vanquish… images …. from …. my ….. brain.

May 10, 2009 By: Thor Category: Holidays, Personal, Venting No Comments →

Well another Mother’s day just about in the books.  Not too bad a day even though it started out with my two  year old waking me up covered in her own feces.  Need to keep working on the potty training tasks – she hasn’t quite managed the clean up stage.

Had my mom in as well as doing brunch for the wife and kids.  All seemed to have a good time of it.

Tomorrow is back to the fracking Q4 grind.  After 12 years it doesn’t get any easier, and this year seems more challenging than most.

Wisdom Teeth

April 18, 2009 By: Thor Category: Personal No Comments →

So, I had a couple of wisdom teeth extracted.  I had been putting it off hoping that they would fit well into my mouth but, no joy.

Always a weird sensation, one minute you are having a conversation and the next someone is saying ok we’re all done.  Anyway so far so good.  The pain is minimal and easily handled with ibuprofen.   Swelling has been kept to a minimum externally and is a little annoying internally but very limited.  Things look good so far I hope it stays that way.

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  • The Wizard Nebula

     
    This image of the open star cluster NGC 7380, also known as the Wizard Nebula, is a mosaic of images from the WISE mission spanning an area on the sky of about 5 times the size of the full moon. NGC 7380 is located in the constellation Cepheus about 7,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy. The star cluster is embedded in a nebula, which spans some 110 light-years. The stars of NGC 7380 have emerged from this star-forming region in the last 5 million years or so, making it a relatively young cluster. WISE, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, scans the entire sky in infrared light, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of objects and producing millions of images. The mission is designed to uncover objects never seen before, including the coolest stars, the universe's most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets. Its vast catalogs will help answer fundamental questions about the origins of planets, stars and galaxies. WISE joins two other infrared missions in space -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency mission. WISE is different from these missions in that it will survey the entire sky. It is designed to cast a wide net to catch all sorts of unseen cosmic treasures, including rare oddities. All four infrared detectors aboard WISE were used to make this image. NGC 7380 was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. Her brother, William Herschel, discovered infrared light in 1800. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
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