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

Moab, Utah

I've made a breakthough discovery. You know those rolls of "Reynolds" tinfoil and "Gladwrap" clingpaper? You know how the rolls always come out of the box when you pull on the ends of the wrap and then get all messed up? Well...If you look at the end of the boxes, there are tabs on the end that you are supposed to push in when you open the box of wrap. That holds the rolls in place inside and allows them to rotate freely within the box without coming loose. Reynolds made that product improvement in 1996. Unfortunately, I never got the word.

We're back in Moab after a sidetrip to North Carolina to visit the grandchildren for a week. Hereafter, these will be refered to as Fireclouds 1-6.

Firecloud 1 is quoting Latin and playing Classical Piano very well. Firecloud 5 made a big sloppy mess in his diapers while I was watching 1-5 by myself. The only hope for it seemed to be to put him in the tub and soap him up completely as part of an irregularly scheduled maintemance procedure. It's been 38 years since my last diaper change. They don't use cloth and safety pins anymore. There are these new things that use velcro fasteners and are disposable. Who says that NASA research didn't improve our lot? However, the gag reflex still works even with the new technology.

We're off in the morning to a new place. I'm thinking northeast for awhile. The Colorado National Monument is just up the road a few miles. Time to see what that's all about.

Firecloud 5: Ahhh, Chopin! Music to download by!

You'd figure NASA would have invented self-clearing nappies for the astronauts, so there's an obvious conceptual gap here.

well, maybe they experimented and it didn't work as planned...

Actually, I'm reading that the astronuats are currently being incommodated by a cranky commodes...and even the astronauts don't work as planned...there was that lady astronuats who put on her astronuats nappies and drove to Florida to take out her competition...