Gee, I take a one-day holiday and the world goes to you know where, without the aide of a handbasket.
Speaking of which, fellow Daynoter Mike Barkman got the good news/bad news last week (see it here). You can follow the link to see the verdict so I won't repeat it here, but I am reminded of an old joke:
A secretary walked into her boss's office and said, "I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you."
"Why do you always have to give me bad news?" he complained. "Tell me some good news for once."
"All right, here's some good news," said the secretary. "You're not sterile."
I know, some of you out there are saying how can I be so crass at a time like this? But I think that misses the point.
Mike is still with us. He hasn't gone anywhere, although many people may start referring to him as if he has. While he's here, he's still the same person he was week ago. The same man with the positive attitude that has weathered the storms that life has sent his way. Just because he has a time frame to deal with (as we all do, whether we realize it or not) doesn't mean he's lost his sense of humor.
So lighten up a bit and celebrate a life well lived.
My Wallpapper for the week is from NASA's Earth
Observatory page
here. The image was taken aboard the International Space
Station by astronaut Ed Lu using the now discontinued Kodak DCS760 six-megapixel digital camera (based on
the Nikon F5 body) with a 400mm lens. The image is of "The sliver
of the setting moon and clouds that shine at night - noctilucent
clouds...Noctilucent clouds are very high clouds that look like
cirrus clouds, but are much higher (75-90 km above the
Earth’s surface) than clouds that we observe every day.
They are optically thin and can only be observed during twilight
hours, when the sun is just below the horizon and only shines on
the uppermost atmosphere."
Aloha!
