Category: Homefront

While going to the mailbox today, I had to drive around a group of kids standing in the middle of the street. Since it rained all night, the streets were wet and I splashed water all over some of the youngsters in the crowd. One of them, an early-teen hispanic girl, seemed to be throwing a bubbling fit over what had just happened. I chuckled, checked the mail, then went on my way.

I couldn’t help myself.

I drove around the block and back onto the same street the kids were standing. Waving happily, I drove right through the puddle and soaked that girl.

It’s supposed to rain on Saturday. I hope I get lots of mail.

The glass and digitizer arrived in the mail. Oh, happy day.

After prying the glass and lcd from the iPhone body, I noticed something that didn’t please me. I had cracked the lcd sometime in the process. After running to the nearest cellphone repair shop and paying entirely too much for a replacement lcd, I returned to the repair job and all went smoothly.

In all, I spent just over four and a half hours repairing my phone. I do not want to ever go through this again. It probably would have been worth it to pay a repair shop upwards of $200 to fix it for me.

I have no idea what I saw in the sky at 5:19am this morning. It was still dark outside and these were definitely not aircraft which usually approach from south to north, directly over my home. I’m only recording this, as I do with all my other posts, so I have a record of what was going through my mind at any given time….

While looking due north, what seemed to be a faint star appeared. The single “star” remained faint for about ten seconds, then quickly grew in brightness. At maximum brightness, which was maintained for no more than 15 seconds and was as bright or brighter than Venus on a clear night, a second faint “star” appeared at about twenty degrees higher in the sky. The first “star” faded and disappeared completely within five seconds. Then, the second “star” grew in brightness, just as the first “star” did. This brightness was also maintained for no more than fifteen seconds. Just as the first did, the second “star” faded and disappeared completely within five seconds.

Both objects remained motionless in the sky. As far as I was able to determine, there were no clouds in the sky as I could see stars all around, fully formed constellations, and even the “north star”.

I just read an article about someone with whom I went to school. He’s a Lt. Colonel in the US Air Force and has just been selected by NASA to attend the 2009 astronaut program.

It’s time like this that I feel like such a waste of space. No pun intended.