h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, I ~could~ start another thread, but this discussion of sandwiches is so interesting...

One of my favorite sandwiches is called (my me) a "Hot Seeded Tuna Melt." Make a normal tuna melt sandwich, except make sure to spread some sweet/hot mustard on the inside of the bread. Press together firmly, butter the outside and sprinkle with crusched red peppers. Fry on a grill and serve warm. Mmm yummy. I find if you use pepperjack cheese on the inside it even makes it more yummy.

Anywho, I posted it at this site as well: http://www.iliveonyourvisits.com/sp which is a good site to link to for sandwiches. There are quite a few weird inventions there...

I have just gotten home after drinking way to much with Rachel (my girlfriend) and her new friend and boyfriend.

The boyfriend seems cool, which is good since I will have to interact with him as long as Rachel and this lady are friends.

It's been a loooooooooooooooooooooong time since I have had this much to drink!!!!!!!!

Courtesy *who's happy he can type this well*

May I return after skipping 27 pages of blog? Please?

Of course, Hati . We've been discussing sandwiches and gherkins. We had a surprising amount to say about gherkins.

*admires Courtesy's typing whilst under the 'fluence*

This morning there was a corpse in both traps and the and peanut better had been eaten. So a bigger problem than expected.

I love tacos, we no longer have a Mexican restaurant locally and the nearest approximation is up the A3 a few miles.

I have to be in the mood for gherkins, don't mind them sometimes, hate them at others.

Good morning y'all. Got the post office stint this morning. Thank heaven January is over with -- I didn't really enjoy it.

See you later. *finishes tying laces on her work boots and clomps downstairs*

Such unhappy news this morning. My dad worked on the space program for many years, so whenever something tragic happens it always puts me into a mood. He had retired before the space shuttle program began, but he worked on the Mercury and Apollo missions.

On the bright front, it is an absolutely glorious day. Temperatures are expected to climb into the mid 60's (snow is forcast for next week ), and I don't have to work!

I'm going to get my little Mantis out and if the soil is dry enough, I'll work on my early garden spot. I always like to put out salad greens, scallions, and snow peas in March. With everything that was going on last fall, I didn't get my garden turned over for the winter.

I bought the Lasagna gardening books for the library. Boy, does that look like a great idea. I'll try one bed this year and see if it's all it's cracked up to be. If it works, then I have a new way of gardening. It sure would be easier on my back and hip.

And Sporky, pepperjack cheese will make about anything better.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2716369.stm

It must be terrible for the families.

Sad news.

I like a good marmite and banana sandwich myself. It's the only way I stomach marmite at all. And pickles are the bees knees. I brought back tons of english style chutneys to go with our russian pickled everything else.

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In a nation already under siege from those elected to protect it, this disaster is the last thing any of us wanted to see.

The US space program has never lost an astronaut during recovery. Our scientists and pilots on the Columbia as well as Israel's first astronaut are gone, one can only hope that they did not go through much trauma during the disaster.

I pray for their souls and hope that this was not the act of agression by some other group. Were that to be, then this entire country would shut down.

I was in elementary school during the sixties when every launch was a major event. The teachers rolled tv carts into the classrooms and we all sat spellbound watching the liftoffs. I remember thinking what a wonderful world we lived in with such a huge new frontier being newly explored. I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up.

I still have a voucher for a flight to the moon on TWA that I got as a kid.

So sad.

*goes to find out what is gherkin*

We must never forget Francis Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnik, Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, Gregory B. Jarvis, and Sharon Christa McAuliffe. They were the crew of STS-41, The Challenger. I was but in the 4th grade at teh time of that disaster. We were watching it in class, witness to destruction of those poor souls. I feel much the same today as I did then. A detached mourning as well as anger that this had to happen.

I also pray for the souls of those on board the Columbia and I wish peace to their families though I know that it will neither come cheaply or easily.

Remember also Roger Chaffee, Ed White, and Gus Grissom. We have also lost Cosmonauts, most of who's names I fear I have forgotten - though I remember Yuri Gagarin, who led the way.

Fair winds.

The space shuttle missions have been so succesful that we had begun to take them for granted again. This will remind us of the great risk involved in space exploration.

Mac, thanks for mentioning Chaffee, White and Grissom. My dad knew both Grissom and Chaffee. It took a long time for everyone to recover from that accident.

One point I'd like to make is that test pilots and military pilots risk their lives daily for our benefit. When you compare the numbers of planes and lives lost with the three NASA tragedies, then you realize what a wonderful job NASA does. These folks are good. But, shuttle missions are enormously dangerous, complicated undertakings. There will always be accidents. And the astronauts and their families know that they aren't guaranteed a successful mission.

And one other thing....while we grieve for the crew of the Columbia and pray for their families, please remember the people who work on these misions, both military and civilian, who are asking themselves if something they did contributed to this tragedy or if something they didn't do could have prevented it. There are a lot of people behind the scenes whose lives are going to be in shambles.

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I don't really know what to say, other than it will grieve many people who were related to the astronauts or who had anything to do with the mission. May God ease the pain of loss for the families; and may he guide the mission staff, engineers, and others workers to look more carefully to the safety of future missions.

May peace be with each of you, my friends here on H2G2. Never lose sight of the miraculous wonder that our creator has set before us; keep striving for all that is good and acceptable and perfect. There is so much yet to experience in this great big wide universe...

B4

Something like this is always harder on those left behind. The ones who have to try to make sense of the senseless.