Air Portugal Sucks
Space shuttle Columbia was the heaviest of the shuttle fleet and as a result, it struggled to reach the ISS’s orbit inclination in the best of circumstances.
Turns out it was a payload weight and performance issue with abort scenarios that constrained Columbia’s flight envelopes.
Mars’s highest atmospheric density is the equivalent density found 22 miles above the earth’s surface. And yet, we can still get a helicopter to fly.
Life has existed on earth for 28% of the universe’s known timeline.
This might be a space heavy list this year…
Merry is teaching again!
Eastern Blue Birds do not migrate away in the winter.
Air Portugal’s customer services sucks.
The Kennedy Space Center has an F1 engine sitting outside. 😔
The Saturn V building at the KSC is incredible.
Do not expect to book a “Behind the Scenes” bus tour the day of your visit.
Perseverance has a pet rock!
Titanic was a 2 VHS set.
The Louvre’s oldest piece is 9000 years old.
Transferring from the RER to the Metro? Make sure you don’t lose that ticket!
TROCADÉRO!!!!!!!!!
Paris was much cleaner than its reputation would make me think it would be!
Our visit was literally the only week in the previous two and following one month that the French people weren’t striking.
Giovanni di Pietro Falloppi has never seen a baby.
As you progress through the wine history/tasting event, it becomes harder and harder to absorb the information.
The Eiffel Tower gets repainted every 7 years or so, and the color has changed greatly over the years!
The Chateaú de Versailles is a visceral overload!
It doesn’t get much better than drinking wine on the roof of your hotel, overlooking the Eiffel Tower and talking about life with Merry, Kurt and Nicci.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is also a visceral overload! But in a very different way.
Merry can rock a vintage denim jacket!
A Prius can go faster than 100 MPH.
The buffeting stops around the upper 80’s to low 90’s.
London was the first and hopefully only time where the difference in making the flight or missing it was determined by how fast we could run.
PACK is an acronym.
Early in the year it was Wingspan, now it is Ark Nova.
8 roofing quotes? I suppose that is sufficient.
It’s going to cost $13,800 all in for a new roof.
It’s a lot of money, but there is something to be said to not need to worry about it again for another 30 years. (50 if you ask the roofers.)
Folding Electric Bikes exist, are amazing and would revolutionize how I would exercise.
But because of 33, 35 will not happen. Not this year at least.
Lake Iseo is BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Cosmin and Amanda’s UNESCO site adventures are very fun to tag along with!
There is an internet group of people that are as crazy about postcards as I am.
Dr. Squid Gin is produced in Cornwall with squid ink. Definitely a 5 star experience
“You now have country plumbing, which needs such special care. There is no massive sewer, like in the city fair. Use sparingly the tissue, and Kleenex keep away. You’ll be a welcome guest here if you will please obey. When managing this problem, we hope you understand. When things are running smoothly, the country is so grand!”
RIP Country plumbing sign. Apparently you will live on in my head.
AIR PORTUGAL CAN ******** ******** A ************ ******** *** ****** ALL DAY ********** LONG **** *** *** * **************** WITH A HORSE ******** *******.
*********** ******** **************** WHEN YOU ********* ***** ****** SEVENTEEN TIMES *********** GROCERY STORE ******* ******** IN THE *********** **** *******.
Gray house was a horror genre Broadway show that initially I wasn’t impressed with, but couldn’t stop thinking about it for the next few weeks. So I guess it was better than I was expecting!
Destination Fear trumps Ghost Adventures for me!
Project Fear is even better!
Even an incredibly rainy day will not dampen spirits while exploring La Mont Saint Michel with the Budaus.
Cosmin and Amanda’s recollection of Tom Scott locations is amazing, and allowed us to fly a personal blimp inside a WWII blimp hangar in Normandy, France!
The new AirPods Pro Gen 2 are so much better than the originals. Definitely worth the money to upgrade.
Nordés Gin smells like bubble gum.
I have reached the age where a sneeze can not only hurt, it can ruin your day.
Sneezing isn’t normal, I never sneeze.
Gary’s retiring?!?
Apparently a bottle of 4 roses takes the edge off announcing your retirement.
AIR ********* PORTUGUAL ****************************************** ***** *.
Worst ************* Airline ***** **********.
Washing robes results in the ties coming off 100% of the time.
London used to have a narrow gauge railroad running beneath the streets that delivered mail throughout the city between major postal hubs. It was operational from 1927 until 2003.
You can ride aboard the “Mail Rail” train at the UK’s Postal Museum!!!
The franchise currently plying its trade in Milton Keynes used to be the Dons.
The cover for the 12” record version of Duran Duran’s “Planet Earth” album was taken in the Milton Keynes shopping center immediately next to our hotel.
Redacted – you are a cheeky one though! I appreciate your dedication! But I still cannot share it.
Redacted - Ditto.
Even though a meteor has left “uncorrectable” damage to one of the mirrors of the JWST, it’s still performing better than its design specifications required it to.
Vihart is back!
Zisteau kind of is…
Bosnian Bill isn’t.
Engine is the best gin.
OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s returned samples of the asteroid Bennu to the Utah desert about 70 miles west of Salt Lake City on 9/24/2023.
How can 10 years have passed before I discovered “The Meaning of Stonehenge”?
That reminds me, the Newfangled Four are back too!
Sue is a lot feistier on Taskmaster than she is on Bake Off.
Savannah is SO MUCH BETTER when Merry is in town!
In a city that is overgrown with Spanish Moss, the ghost of Major General Nathanael Green needs to work very hard to keep Johnson Square clear of the stuff.
The Sorrel Weed house is as beautiful on the inside as it is on the outside.
For being Savannah’s most haunted location, it had an amazingly welcoming feeling in the basement.
I could get a medical certificate while at recurrent training.
A 2 year old’s brain can develop so much in a 2 week period.
Sharkie is absolutely packed with IR sensors, yet still runs into every wall in the house.
I’d buy another robot vacuum tomorrow if Sharkie were to die.
Per average square centimeter, the human body burns more energy than the sun.
The body flap on Space Shuttle Atlantis at the KSC is actually Columbia’s body flap. It was removed from Columbia after damage and swapped with Atlantis so it could fly its scheduled mission and never swapped back.
Mom has a stock of mid-2000’s Disney postcards in the junk room.
The NBA has an “In-season tournament” to make the players try harder.
A few million dollars per year isn’t enough motivation I guess.
Starry Soda is the old Sierra Mist.
State of the Apps is more exciting than Yearly Themes this year.
TickTick is everything I was needing but didn’t now I needed. NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH TIKTOK.
Same for Notion… this would have been a GAME CHANGER back in college.
It might be a game changer now… hopefully offline mode isn’t the deal breaker.
Rest in Peace, Roger Planton.
Giannis has set the Bucks franchise all time high points scored per game record at 64 at the 12/19/2023 game.
A SodaStream is also a game changer.
LorAnn Lemon + Cake Batter makes La Croix Limoncello!
The two’s can be both terrible and amazing, in rapid succession.
How can it be that we are at the end of 2023 and WhatsApp still does not have an iPad app.
Some years you lead the pack, some years you are mediocre. The Northshore Nincompoops were definitely mediocre this year.
Evie knows what nocturnal means.
71 cards sent, 67 cards received through the official Postcrossing site, plus 200+ direct swaps with people all around the world. 6 out of 7 continents (including Antarctica!)