NASA Spinoff homepage

If you're curious what NASA has been up to for 40 years check out this link. NASA has been very instrumental in lots of technologies.

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/

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Thank Goodness!!!

I'm so glad to know my chicken chimichanga is not coming out of a box and microwaved.

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Opinions (I agree)

From "The Simple Dollar":

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In the end, the only opinions that really matter are your own opinions and the opinions of a very small and select group of people who know the full situation and whose opinions you've actually decided to care about. Everyone else? Not so much.

Drive an old car because it gets you from point A to point B the cheapest.

Use a very basic cell phone so you don't have to pay extra for the phone or the data plan.

Live in a tiny apartment while you're working at a low-paying but career-building job.

Work towards debt freedom instead of facing endless credit card and loan bills, even if it means not having the shiny new thing.

Throw your television out the window and read in the evenings.

Join a community group that all of your old "friends" would have made fun of you for joining.

Spend an hour jumping on a trampoline with your five year old nephew because you love spending time with him.

In the end, the only opinions that really matter are your own and those close people around you who know you and understand why you're making the choices you're making. Everyone else? Forget about them.

In the end, you're the only person living your life and only a small handful of people have a significant impact on your life. The rest of them can take their opinions and their judgments elsewhere.

Focus on what you'd like to accomplish in your own life. Right now, what one thing would you most like to accomplish in your life? Don't worry abut what anyone else thinks or says or wants from you. What do you want from your life?

That's the very thing you should be spending your energies on. Keep it front and center, do the unexpected to get there, and ignore the naysayers.
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These simple changes in perspective can mean huge changes in self worth and self image. You can become sure and proud of yourself and you will radiate it. Thanks Trent for today's words of wisdom. I appreciate them.

This question sticks out from it all. What do you want from your life?

www.thesimpledollar.com

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We can do it!

The lady that cooks us delicious homemade Mexican food for our Spanish class was so sweet and had an encouragement tres leches cake made for us. How crazy sweet is that? I'm telling you this lady can cook. She could put 90% of the Mexican food joints in Houston to shame. The other 10% are worthy enough to chop vegetables for her for her salsa :-).
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Ready for Soil

It is time! The seedling are begging for a permanent home until they enter my belly!!! So soil will be purchased.
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New BREG ACL Brace

This is the newest edition to my physical activity gym bag. I picked up my BREG Fusion XT a few weeks back. I tested it out last Saturday when I went on my first post 6 month surgery inline skate for about a mile. It felt so good to be back on the bayou trail. I wish I was running it though. In due time, in due time. I think this brace will be much better than the one I was wearing when I tore my ACL last summer (right?!?!?!? that's what I'm saying). Hopefully I won't have any more knee surgeries. If I do, I'm gonna have to get a tattoo on my left calf that shows the chalkboard tick marks, you know the one.

All you researchers out there hurry up with cartilage replacement! I wanna get back on with normal life for a 30 year old.

My Very First IDPA Competition is Tomorrow

That is, if it doesn't rain tonight or tomorrow morning. It is Houston so that's a HUGE IF.

IDPA = International Defensive Pistol Association

I'm a little nervous as it's been a while since I've been at a gun range. I bought my first ever "shoot me first" vest. I usually make fun of people that are wearing these vests cause us in the gun world understand why people wear these vests, especially in Texas. But in IDPA it is a requirement for concealment so I decided to cave in a get me a "shoot me first" vest. In fact, I think this particular vest screams, "YOU BETTER SHOOT ME FIRST" as it is a very tactical vest and there's lots that can be hidden with it.

If any of you want to come see me and cheer me on or come make fun of me you are more than welcome to. I'll be at the PSC Shooting Range in Friendswood. Send me a text to my phone for the exact address.

Wish me luck!

Little Potatoes in the Fancy Potato Box

How cool is this! The little potato plants are getting big! I've never seen a growing potato plant in my life until now. How funny to be over 30 and enjoying the simple things of life like this.
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Current Desktop configuration

This is cracking me up!
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My little peppers

I was wrong to have written them off. I figured germination was over and they just hadn't made the grade in Darwin's survival of the fittest. Boy was I wrong! These 2 little guys survived against all odds: Houston torrential rain storm and weird hot/freezing cold weather + sitting in an inch or more of water. So they must be the fittest and I'm naming them Pedro de Jalapeno and Juan de Pepper. They are sitting on the stove soaking up some fake rays (but I won't tell them, after all they've been through it would just seem cruel). Good luck guys!

SHOW ME THE PEPPERS!


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I've waited 3 years for this moment

Windows are in the garage and now the insulation of the walls begins. Soon, very soon the garage will have full walls and I can park my car in it. This is awesome.
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No More Centipede!!!

The garage is 3/4 of the way complete. Beams? check. Ceiling? Check. Windows? Check. French doors? Check. Next on to insulation and sheetrock on the walls.
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Absolutely Gorgeous

These flowers are incredible and smell wonderful. Happy 5th Anniversary!
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The sticker says ...

It's a picture of an indian chief inscribed with, "Defend America or give it back.". I love it.
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Dark Ale + Bavarian Munich malt + corn syrup = yummy beer

This is the beer base I used for this batch of beer. I added some hops, malt, and away we go. I have 6 more days of fermentation, then I'll bottle, finally 2 weeks later I'll get to chill it and enjoy.
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6 Giant Watermelons soon to be full of life

This morning I got the watermelon stripes on the last 4 raised bed boxes.
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The 1st Batch is AWESOME!

I enjoyed making, partaking, and sharing my first batch. The first batch was a light lager. It's time to start batch 2. This 2nd batch is going to be a dark ale and my base is going to be syrup instead of plain sugar. I have a few more steps to perform on this batch than the last batch. The new bottles are going to be great too. I have some that I'll cap and some that ceramic cages. I cannot wait. Now off to Bed, Bath, & Beyond for a 3 gallon pot to boil in.
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Day 1, 9 potatoes: 2 yukon, 1 red, 6 Russet

Grilled, baked, fried, boiled, mashed, shoestring, hashed, ...

My name's Kari... Kari Gump. And this is my potato box. Momma always said life if is like a box o' potatoes, u never know how many pounds you gonna get.



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FOX News - Top Stories - U.S. Shuttle Program Lost in Space - Page 1 of 7

To everyone around the working in some capacity for america's space program, I'm sorry America has failed you. You have done AWESoME things for this world.
http://foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=22995&content=36740646

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My Seeds are ALIVE!!!

This is 4 days of being in the ground from seed. I now understand why my grandparents sat outside watching the grass grow. This is fun. I cannot wait to see them full grown.
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Sun Chips Compostable Bag

I fell victim to the "compostable bag" that Sun Chips is touting. This bag is crazy loud. It sounds like sheets of tin on a trailer roof during a tornado. I'm a wee bit weirded out by the metal like material and it ending up in my vegetable garden soil.

http://www.sunchips.ca/resources/images/shared/pages/homepage/homepage.jpg

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If I were a tree hugger this would totally be my car

This car is really cute! I'm way too giant for it.
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FOX News - Top Stories - Tea Party's Racial Divide (amazingly contradictory)

Primarily white, middle-aged, men make up the tea partiers... But wait! That's only suspicion since there are no demographics to date on the tea party movement.

Yet still the article is written like the tea partiers are all white middle-aged men. What if, just what if the movement was actually started by a black young woman that was gay? GASP! The point is no one knows, no one may ever know, and quite frankly why is it the media that keeps playing the color card? Americans wanting to respect the constitution are not limited to white middle-aged men. It is limited to Americans, Americans that want to be free of oppressive big government.

What cracks me up even more is people that play the part in public but don't live the part behind closed doors. Now suddenly being a black conservative is equated to being a gay in the military. Isn't this America? Aren't we supposed to be the freest people on the planet? And are we really allowing the media to force us into "playing" because we believe their lies? When did it happen that white means republican and black means democrat?

Media = contradiction

http://foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=22995&content=36571780&pageNum=-1

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Strawberry pot week 3

We have green!!! I'm so excited. The strawberry pot has life. 5 of the 15 or 16 plants are already showing life.
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Stresses of my life - the women's (un)restroom

So I'm sitting there for the millionth time and there lies the SAME toilet paper roll that's always there... The one with fingernail divits. You know ladies, those stupid dispensers that don't function and your sitting there thinking, "what am I to do with one million confetti sized pieces of toilet paper?". The janitor/ designer must be guys and they must hate women.
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6 boxes, 2 fully painted, 1 base coat, 3 more to go

6 raised bed boxes assembled and 4 left to paint. Lots of work but will be worth it.
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SWAT BEAR

That's giant!
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Citizen's Police Academy day 2

We're at the SWAT building tonight. Lots of fun stuff to see.
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