The 70-meter-wide (230-feet) radio antenna Deep Space Station 43 in Canberra, Australia, and transmitter, used for the Voyager 2 spacecraft, was upgraded and Voyager was contacted for the first time since March. She says hello.

Read the article and/or listen to the story on the BBC HERE.

As I said before, I think the two Voyager spacecraft are the coolest thing humans have ever done. They will be out there probably long after humans are extinct.

The weather outside isn’t looking too bad this morning. I hafta go see in the weather apps if today might be a scooter day.

Have a pleasant day.

This has been all about the weather the past several posts. Unintentionally for the most part, but it’s :What’s going on”..

TS Storm passed by and did a moderate amount of damage. I found a “bubble” where water got under the newly resurfaced porch and I could chip off a large section using only my fingernails. My friend lost roofing shingles and has some repairs due. Many trees came down and several light poles. In our backyard woods I could hear tree wood cracking and a large sounding tree fall beyond my sight. A big beach fell off a tree on our street and I chainsawed it away the next day. Also I spent several hours clearing away small limbs and debris from our yard.

We had one sunny day after cleanup day and I went to the beach. Big waves, muddy water.

Now, the next storm is lined up.

Looks a lot like ETA, the storm we just had. ETA is still out there, by the way. It has taken a wild ride.

since out one sunny day, it’s been cloudy and rainy.

I’m not the only one who will be glad to see this years hurricane season end!

Yesterday was a bank holiday here, so this is a Monday-feeling Tuesday.

Have a good week!

Looks like Eta will get here at about 2AM Saturday morning, in other words, tonight/tomorrow. I guess the storm has picked up speed, because when I went to bed last night it was due to hit at 8AM Saturday.

And it will be quite windy.

We’re supposed to get 5-20 inches of rain. Guesses vary wildly.

Work told us to work from home today, so I’m not going in. Schools are closed and it seems fairly serious. It’s rare that a storm approaches from this direction.

Happy Friday! Have a good weekend!

I started reading “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” by Charles Mackay.

It is available free on Kindle and also a digital version of the original is available on Google Books. Published in 1841, it seems like the exact same things are happening right now. Richard M Nixon took the USA off the gold standard, meaning before that, there was a dollars worth of gold in the treasury for every dollar printed. Now printed money is, in reality, worthless paper.

Also there’s a part on the madness for tulips and rich people, Alchemists, which apparently are people trying to turn metals into gold. I haven’t yet got to the witch part, where apparently, over 100,000 women (and some men) were killed as witches.

What I don’t like is that the book seems very long and drawn out. Anything mentioned in the book can be verified and you can learn about it faster on the internet. Any name, place or event. it’s more like a school course book than a novel to me, but it’s fascinating.

This book is definitely, positively worth a gander.

The rain continues, Storm Eta is still over land, expected to re-forrn when it reaches the sea. And I’m not mentioning the US Presidential election.

Hope your day goes well!

I’ve had enuffa this rain. Months. No sun. Rain is predicted every day through next Monday.

I should be counting blessings though. I hope Nicaragua wasn’t too destroyed by that 140 mph slow grinder Eta.

Running late this morning, I don’t really know why, but I gotta go.

Have a good day!

A week or so ago, I saw the really nice article above, about a farmer’s wife who lost her ring in the garden. 16 years later, they found it. It was so sweet, I screen grabbed it and saved it.

The story was on the bottom of a website, you know, the nice ones to lure you on with cute stuff and keep you with their affiliates. Funny how they mention the odds against it ever happening again.

Yesterday, I saw this on Facebook. Not a friends post, but a FB “you might like this” type thing:

C’mon, somebody’s full of crap. The second story ruined my sweet, sentimental first story.

What do you think? One real, one fake? Both fake? Th second story is definitely disappointing for me.

As I write this, hurricane Eta is coming ashore in Nicaragua, see the picture below, Cayman is in the cone… Right now here it’s super windy and rainy, but probably not from Eta, but maybe part of the same system.

My exercises were indoors this morning and the dog walk got cut short because of rain. Hurricane season ends at the end of November. Bring it.

Stay dry and check your carrots before eating them, apparently they’re infested with diamond rings lately. I don’t want you to bust a tooth!

It was a pretty standard weekend. Errands on Saturday and yardwork on Sunday.

Can’t believe it’s November already.

Another storm, Eta, out there. It’s not headed for us, but we’re expecting more rain. Plus it could go inland at Nicaragua and Honduras and then come back out tosee and whack us. It’s one to watch on the long term.

It’s November and I have quite a bit of vacation time to burn. I’d better get onnit!

Have ye a good week!

The wife was volunteering at a museum event last night and home alone, I watched a movie called Mortal Engines. I thought it was excellent. Possibly more for the visuals than the plot. The plot was very good, but if you took your eyes off the screen, you missed something really cool. Nonstop coolness movie.

To summarize, it’s way in the future after the 60 Minute War wrecked the world. Powerful weapons even caused the tectonic plates to shift, so the continents aren’t even the same as now. The survivors are living in mobile cities and the bigger ones (like London) are huge predator cities that consume smaller cities for their resources. Like a big animal eating a smaller one!

Old stuff from before the war are real collectors items. Called “old tech”

The bad guy on London, (Agent Smith from The Matrix) is working on a powerful weapon to attack the well defended non-mobile city.

The the best stuff for making these weapons is “old tech”.

One of the good guys was Klause on Umbrella Academy. There’s lots of big stars hidden under excellent costumes and makeup and I tell ya, it’s my kinda movie!

Definitely watch it if you can!

Happy Friday! Hopefully we won’t have a totally rainy weekend. But our outdoor plants are doing so well, I kinda hate to fry them with the hot Caribbean sun

Have a good weekend!

I have observed through observation, that Amazon seems to be less than straightforward about their rating system. Recently I bought some melatonin from Amazon. The advert shows four stars so I bought it. Later, Mike was telling me about the bad reviews. I went and looked, and although the cover page had 4 stars, almost none of the people writing reviews had anything good to say. How did Amazon come up with 4 stars? I always assumed it was an average.

The other day, I was looking at air fryers. Pretty much all on Amazon have 4 or 4 and a half stars, but read the ratings written by users, there’s a whole different story.

So ya gotta read the reviews, don’t trust the Amazon sales page.

Thanks Mike!

Last night I took the dogs out and saw the moon and one star. This morning there was almost clear skies. May we see the sun today?

And, as it type this, it starts raining… No kidding. Torrential downpour, high wind. Unbelievable.

Who controls the weather?