How exciting, it is now a New Year. Last year was a great year and a lot of exciting stuff happened but I am looking forward to a new year.
The last couple of weeks have been crazy but a whole lot of fun. It was actually our year to have everyone come home but in the end only three of the kids actually made it. Kira and her kids were planning on coming out on December 22 but a major crises in their lives delayed their trip to Saturday. Ben and his family also showed up on Saturday. Alycia chose to spend Christmas at home with the kids and she showed up Dec 26. Trevor didn’t make it until Dec 30.
Alex, Sarah and Brandon all had good excuses but in the end, our kids are just getting to the age that they want to have their own Christmas’s. It’s sad but it was the same with our own family. At one point we just wanted to be home. Even still, we’d still go visit after Christmas and before New Years.
So, lets see how much of the last two weeks I can remember. Thank goodness for cell phones and their cameras.
Let me tell you about the crisis in the Palmer family. Thursday (Dec 21), Justin woke up and for some reason checked his bank account. He found that he had zero dollars in his account. I don’t know how much money Justin normally carries in his account but I got the impression that it is probably thousands and he was understandably concerned. To make a long story short, someone had stolen his identity and transferred the contents of every one of his bank accounts to a cripto account some where in California. He spent Thursday and Friday trying to sort that all out but it wasn’t until just a day or two ago that he was told he would probably get everything back but it could take weeks.
Saturday, after everyone was here we made our way up to Christmas Card lane which is always fun and exciting. This year they actually had a parade of decorated golf carts. It must have been a hundred carts long. It was cool but it really did disrupt traffic but then traffic is always disrupted on Christmas Card Lane the week before Christmas.
We saw a lot of cool things but perhaps my favorite was this car that had every square inch of available surface covered in lights. It looked pretty cool.
We then went home and made hot chocolate.
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The first man made object sent into space
was not the Russian Sputnik
launched in Oct 1957 but a man hole cover.
It was supposed to contain a nuclear test hole in Aug 1957. The explosion ended up being 50,000 times stronger than predicted and the 1,000 pound manhole cover that was supposed to contain the explosion, is estimated to have been blown upwards at about 130,000 mph. The fastest human made object in the history of human kind and five times escape velocity. If it didn't disintegrate in the atmosphere, by now it could be out by Pluto somewhere.
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