WHAT WAS THE VIEW FROM THE MOON? -- Just a Minute Radio for Tuesday 120828

Lots of fuzzballs… stories in the making… floating around.

But with the Hurricane off the coast of Florida and all the buzz songs in the air – we’re having trouble sorting the news from the noise.

Still and all it is an exciting time to be at the GOP Convention… even if they did decide to scrub the first day due to the Hurricane’s uncertainty. Seems like things on that order always happen. Here we’ve been being good ‘little people’ coming all the way down to Florida to get a glimpse of ‘history in the making’ and what do we get? Another day of yammering around and hoping something newsworthy will come out of it.

[It seldom does – or if it does it comes by accident rather than planning.] This displaced keyboard is simmering my sauce. I take 60 some years to teach my right hand little pinky where the backspace key is… and then the keyboard mfg. moves it a half a key away and messes up my 40 years of learning how to hunt- and- peck at a reasonable speed. With my little flat top grey Corona (or something like that) I was pretty good at cranking out copy on the run… now comes this extra half key space… and fouls me up again. But it gives us something to count on – and rid ourselves of idleness otherwise.

I don’t know if I’ll ever have it mastered again. But I guess it’s *my bad* since I never put aside the time to learn touch-typing. Nowadays I’m not too bad about it if I have the right size keyboard… but I spent good money for this keyboard… and it contributes to my slowness not my speed.

Well, the witching hour is here and I’m off to never, never land where the typos play and the carbon copies have flown away. I think I’ll hit the hay. Look, look I shudda bin a poet… Na…I dropped too many mistakes – made the speech-totype people nervous.

G’nite… Don’t forget to say your prayers!

Cordially, In HIM

Barbara and Jack

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Please pray for Kim to get better and the healing to commence – BIG TIME!

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“JUST A MINUTE”

WHAT WAS THE VIEW FROM THE MOON?

Just a Minute: Astronaut Neil Armstrong died Saturday, age 82, the first man to walk on the moon. During the Oral History project at the NASA Space Center he described some aspects of the 1969 Apollo II Mission to the moon. “I certainly was aware of the fact this was the culmination of the work of three to four hundred thousand people over a decade …and that the nation’s hopes and outward appearance largely rested on how those hopes came out. … It seemed to me the most important thing we could do was to focus on our job and … and try to allow nothing to distract us from doing the very best we could.”

Astronaut Armstrong added: “You could stand across the street from the Manned Spacecraft Center; you could not tell when quitting time was because people didn’t leave at quitting time… They just worked and worked until the job was done… they just did it. … Whenever you have those ingredients you’re going to win.” That was July 20^th 1969.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012