Neanderpundit

In the night sky, look up at the moon. There are three roughly circular dark patches that, if you squint, kinda make you think of a Mickey Mouse. the “ears” are the “sea of serenity” and the “Sea of crisis”, while the “Face” is the Mare Tranquilitatus, the Sea of Tranquility.

In the lower left of that sea rests a flag, a bunch of footprints, a handful of very expensive cameras, and the bottom half of a purpose built machine made to be used once and discarded for all eternity.

One of the legs of that machine, the very first Lunar Lander, has a little curved plaque, engraved with a picture of the Earth, and the following legend:
“HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH FIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON JULY 1969, A.D. WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND”

Below that are the names of three astronauts also engraved, and a former president.

To a technology geek, like myself, the mere thought of this makes your heart skip a beat.
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I was a nail biter. I don’t know why, and at that time, I just stopped. No reason for that either, I just didn’t anymore.

The upside is I don’t have bleeding fingers all the time. The downside is, once in a while, I scratch myself until I bleed. Tonight, it was the inside of my left thigh, a stream of pink running down the bathtub drain. very nice. Now my thigh will scab up to my underwear and changing clothes will result in renewed bleeding for a couple of days.