Happy birthday giraffeaholic!

Happy birthday to badmagic, and for tomorrow to lonebear and frost_knight.

Gilad Shalit of the Israeli military has been set free from his Hamas kidnappers. CNN story: http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/18/world/meast/israel-prisoner-swap/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Praised be He who frees the captives.

Happy birthday petrona!

Happy birthday Ginger of the North!

I'm on the mailing list for the National Air & Space Museum's newsletter.

Today's e-newsletter says that STS Discovery will be transferred from NASA to the NASM, for exhibition at the Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airpot.

STS Enterprise will be moved from the Udvar-Hazy Center to the USS Intrepid museum in New York City.

I'm sad to see American manned space flight being shut down again. It's good, though, that we'll get one of the spaceworthy orbiters at IAD/U-H.

Happy birthday to WeirdDave and VValkyrie!

The thermometer in my car read 5 degrees this morning.

An hour later, Weather.com reported the temperature near my office was a comparatively torrid 11 degrees.

I'm waiting for some software to install, so I was reading the ICHC network.

On ROFLrazzi was: Klingon Christmas Carol. (http://celebs.icanhascheezburger.com/2010/12/09/funny-celebrity-pictures-a-klingon-christmas-carol/)

I kid you not. The Charles Dickens classic adapted for klin morals, and performed in KLI Klingon (with Teran'gon {English} supertitles).

To quote the first comment: TREKKIEGASM!

Happy birthday to Lonebear and Frost Knight!