Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
I have enjoyed looking at the Apollo Image Archive at Arizona State university. If you haven’t had a chance to explore both their down loadable high resolution images and their links… there is no better time than now!
Enjoy!
Roger Freberg
“As long as there is injustice, whenever a Targathian baby cries out, wherever a distress signal sounds among the stars, we’ll be there. This fine ship, this fine crew. Never give up… and never surrender!”
Sir Winston Churchill offered some advice during WWII…
“The speech was made 29 October 1941 to the boys at Harrow School. ” Never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
There is something to learn here for all of us. ‘Never give up’ is a reminder not to defeat ourselves… because if we struggle… sometimes, we win…. but if we give up, we always lose.
Roger Freberg
Well… we dropped in for our weekly weigh-in at Jenny Craig.
Somehow, when you are down 85 lbs. and nearing my goal… you wonder when to stop?
Frankly, I am feeling fine at this weight and I may drop a little more… but wearing a size 32 pair of jeans is just amazing to me! I joke that I plan to donate some of the sizes I ‘passed through’ (including 36’s) to some of my friends who might need these ‘fat’ clothes. ha!
On the left — in case your are wondering — I am enjoying some “Biltong” that Karen brought back from South Africa. This piece came from Kruger Park and it is Springbok! Yes, very yummy!
Everyone in the family has been on Jenny Craig… and it seems like — collectively — we have lost a small Toyota.
Now… I will reward myself on Sunday with a South African ‘Bobotie’… a recipe that I have been exploring and I will post my recipe.
Roger Freberg
Is it a toy? Is it practical? If it takes your entire body to power it, how easy is it to steer? Sooooo many questions… in the meantime, it looks very cool.
I received an email from the ol SciFi.Com folks … and since I have been a fan of recumbent bikes, I thought I’d give it a look. The HyperBike folks have a nice web site and it looks like they have more in the future:
“For the next prototype, which he hopes to begin work on soon, DeForest has garnered technical assistance that begins to address some of the issues the current prototype presents. He has attracted attention from the Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program, a NASA-funded program based in Florida with offices throughout the country.”
For the rest of us… we’ll have to see if this develops into something practical… it already looks fun!
Roger Freberg
Well, Karen brought this back from the Knoxville, Tennessee Airport… for me.
The name is a bit strange… but it is very good!
Roger Freberg
PS. Strangely enough, they say this is one of the best selling items…