Space - The final frontier

I watched the space shuttle launch this morning, did you ?  It is still amazing to watch as it goes into space live as it happens from cameras on the shuttle. In 2 minutes they wre doing over 4000 mph ! To think that things like this are commonplace in our world is also amazing. To think that kids growing up now will always have computers and cell phones. is crazy. Yes I am OLD enough to remember dial telephones and black and white tvs that were always blowing tubes, Hense the tv repairman ! LOL To top it off, you had to get up to change the channel ! (the nerve !) Take your pick, channels 2,5,7,9,11 and 13.....if the wind was right ! We take things for granted  now that were science fiction when our parents were in school. I did my term paper in high school on a manual typewriter, What a pain in the ass ! No spell check, no delete button. If you made aa mistakeat the bottom of the page, you retyped the whole thing. Teachers would measure te margins aanwith rulers and dock you points for not having them right ! We won't even get started about grade school at St Stephen's ! Maybe later I'll curl your hair with some stories of growing up there ! lol Well, time for bed ! But first maybe I'll tune my digital scanner and see if I can hear the space shuttle. No ? Then I'll turn on the NASA chaannel on the dish and see what they're doing live and  listen in t their radio traffic as well. Ho hum......