Up Early On The 21st Day Of July Thinking About Swimming & Getting A Lethal Injection

The 21st morning of July is dawning with yet one more clear blue sky morning in North Texas.

The aquamarine colored pool is looking particularly inviting this morning. The only thing not all that inviting about the pool is it is starting to be not all that refreshing to take a dip in it, due to the fact that the temperature of the water is warmer than the morning air, which this morning is chilled to 82 degrees.

We are currently scheduled to reach a high of 101 today, with the Real Feel Heat Index feeling like 105.

I do not know if I will make it to any HOT hill hiking today. I have a doctor's appointment in Hurst at 10 this morning.

Speaking of getting an injection. We had an execution last night down in Huntsville. A guy named Mark Stroman was put permanently to sleep. This particular idiot went on a Dallas convenience store killing spree in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, killing 2 and injuring 1. He thought he was targeting people of Middle Eastern descent, however the victims were all from South Asia.

The final Space Shuttle touched down yesterday. Atlantis made the final landing. It seems like only yesterday I watched the first Space Shuttle launch. And now it is 30 years later.

Time flies at a speed that is sort of depressing if you think about it.

I think I will go swimming now and try not to think about time flying.

Space Shuttle Lands In Fort Worth

Yesterday at 3:10pm the Space Shuttle Endeavor landed at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base here in Fort Worth.

The Space Shuttle is on its way back to Cape Canaveral after bad weather at the Cape brought about a November 30 touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Before its overnight stay in Fort Worth the Space Shuttle and the modified 747 it piggybacks landed at Biggs Army Airfield at Fort Bliss in El Paso.

Miss Puerto Rico's brother, Tito, is stationed at Fort Bliss. Tito safely returned from Iraq in November.

The Space Shuttle is scheduled, weather permitting, to lift off from Fort Worth at sunrise. Maybe I'll see it flying overhead this morning when I go swimming.

On a related note. By far the coolest thing I've seen in all the time I've been in Texas was a Space Shuttle passing overheard. It was a nighttime landing. I did not know what to expect. We'd been told to look low on the horizon to the west. Suddenly this huge fireball came into view. I'd never seen anything like it. It passed very quickly, leaving a strange afterglow in the sky. When the glow faded we ran back inside and watched the landing in Cape Canaveral.