Got my Saturday schedule all goofy!
Sep. 8th, 2007 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avanta7I got up and headed for the office bright and early today (before 7:00 AM) because I was under the apparently mistaken impression we were working overtime today. By 7:15 no one had showed up, so I picked up a non-fat latte at the local Java Shack (had a full "buy 9, get one free" card) and drove back home. I've just spent the past hour perusing the BookCrossing forums.
On the way into town, I listened to NPR's Weekend Edition report on the increasingly distant and endlessly functioning Voyager spacecraft. Today is the 30th anniversary of its launch. I remember visiting Vandenberg Air Force Base around that time (I was in high school) and getting a "Fly By Jupiter" pin-on badge to commemorate the project. I may still have that badge somewhere. Anyway, as part of today's radio discussion, bits and pieces of the recordings contained on Voyager's Golden Record were played, and I became all weepy over the lovely optimism this country once expressed toward its space program, its place in the world and the universe at large, and the fabulous fabulous music chosen to represent our planet to whomever or whatever might be lurking in the vast reaches of space.
Spouse is still sleeping. I must go make coffee and let Phoebe in.
On the way into town, I listened to NPR's Weekend Edition report on the increasingly distant and endlessly functioning Voyager spacecraft. Today is the 30th anniversary of its launch. I remember visiting Vandenberg Air Force Base around that time (I was in high school) and getting a "Fly By Jupiter" pin-on badge to commemorate the project. I may still have that badge somewhere. Anyway, as part of today's radio discussion, bits and pieces of the recordings contained on Voyager's Golden Record were played, and I became all weepy over the lovely optimism this country once expressed toward its space program, its place in the world and the universe at large, and the fabulous fabulous music chosen to represent our planet to whomever or whatever might be lurking in the vast reaches of space.
Spouse is still sleeping. I must go make coffee and let Phoebe in.
