Extend Your Life!! & No Mars News

Yes, yes my friends! I'm gonna buy a couple cases of this stuff! I mean, what could go wrong? AND it will extend your life!!

Ahh cool refreshing Fukushima water! I wasn't planning on making any kids anyhow!

Tomorrow, Drs/ appointment.... BUT, before that, got kinda an unsettling message from the neighbors last eve. The landlady has someone coming to "assess" the house tomorrow morning.... There'd been talk about her possibly selling the place.... I'm pretty sure my neighbors would be the buyer... But it still kinda like... 'Do I need to prepare?'.... I had just about got to the point of no stress whatsoever in my life... I'm pretty sure they'll buy the place and I'll be ok....

So the 'big storm' never really hit us... We were supposed to get up to 25cm of snow... Winds up to 50k... Supposed to be sideways... I think we got less snow now lol... But still a lot on the ground... And the winds never whipped up... Tomorrow's supposed to be windy and snow should start early tomorrow morning here.... I'm gonna take my I-Shred to the store and get a new mouth piece. I called the main store today and got the lads name i was talking to. He said this problem with the mouth piece is known and they've been having to exchange them, so I shouldn't really have any problems... I do just feel more comfortable now, as I didn't have anyone's name.. So I could walked in there and said, 'Um yeah, the guys at the main store said I could exchange the mouth piece'... "And who were you talking to?".... 'Ummmm.... Someone?'....
So now I can whip out a name, so there really shouldn't be any problem... Kinda crappy that this 'problem' is "well known".
The mouth piece has like a 'spike' in it, so when you put it on the I-Shred the stake inserts into the chamber with your herb, you can then rotate the mouth piece so as to 'churn' up the herb in the chamber... I think therein lies the fault, this turning of the mouth piece seems to eventually cause the mouth piece to... fall apart... It's a great device, I still stand by it, but... Obviously with that outstanding issue... Like how long will this new mouth piece last? How long will they let us keep exchanging it...
I  guess when I get the new one, I won't be turning it to churn up the herb....

Man, I haven't drank alcohol in over, jeez, 15 years? But Metallica & Motorhead have just put out two really, really, yummy sounding products...

Metallica's 'Blackened' Whiskey - Uses the aged cedar wood barrels and some kind of low frequency as it ages.... (Sadly, just after announcing this new drink, the owner of Blackened Dave Pickerell passed away... )

https://blackenedwhiskey.com/

And Motorhead's rum! Myum!

https://www.urban-drinks.de/en/motoerhead/

That's some yummy sounding stuff! Maybe someday.....

Elsa, Caught In The Act

The only reason she stops messing with this huge glass frame is because the camera light distracted her... Trust me, she can make that gigantic frame swing....

She's such an ass

HOLY CRAP! Look What They Found On Mars!!!

Holy toledo! You'd never have expected that after taking a perfect clear photo from the InSight instrument deployment camera that shows a wonderful Martian landscape...

Then the next photo they released... This happened!

Thanks to Larry Burke for the pic


Solar panels have been deployed and InSight is gaining energy! Man, gonna be such a long wait for science... BUT, the camera's seem to be up and working, so between the time it'll take to test the instruments bed, they'll hopefully take lots of nice pix for us!

the 'Snow storm' we were supposed to get never materialized, in fact I think we lost snow today... But the night is young and there's still time to get walloped!

Disappointed that my dry vape has 'broken'... It's not a fatal break, but it's a pain in the ass. The plastic mouth piece has seperated.. So I called the main store and they said if I took it back to the store I bought it from that they'd replace the mouthpiece.... But the guys running the store I bought mine from, well no offence to 'em, but they've always seemed a bit 'dick-ish'.. So once we get another good day for being outside, I'll see if they'll replace it, if not, i'll go back to their higher ups.

Now, some might say, welll use CrazyGlue to put it back together, but that 'metal' part heats up, I ain't about sniffin' no glue lol... That would be a maybe fatal or sickening result....

Pic #1 from Mars InSight & Some of My NASA Sh!t

While a lot of people are NASA fans, there's also a lot of people who do not believe that these probes and missions even exist... SOME people think no huemahn has ever even left our atmosphere.
Those kinds of people really, really piss me off, but their 'belief' now is so strong and true, that arguing with these folk is like arguing there's no 'god' with someone who believes in it.... Futile... I hope those people are left to rot on this planet when we leave for the stars. Harsh? Yes, but their level of stupidity is such they deserve whatever they'll get.

But this isn't time for anger... Count to 10.... One of the other 'cool' things about this 'mission' was that InSight wasn't traveling alone. Launched just behind it were two 'cubesats' the size of about a cereal box to a briefcase. These' mini-statellites were a World first in 'deep space', as they followed InSight to Mars and helped out by sending the 'A-Ok' signal back to Earth.

Now, in a few more hours the solar arrays will deploy, then they will begin to system check all of the science instruments. The 'cover' will be removed from the cameras and they will inspect there area around InSight to see where is best to get this science mission going... This will take weeks to months before the full mission is up and swinging.

Here's the first image:

My first reaction was, 'YAGGH Space ants!!!!'

One of my favorite things about these 'Space Naysayers' is they are always going, "There's no real photo's from space", "They are all Photoshopped", "All the photo's are fake!"....

Ok tough people's...Here's a link you can  go to anytime, they post RAW images from the mission.

RAW images are the end all to all arguments about 'photo's and space'... These photos are untouched copies of the originals sent from whatever mission they belong to. NO one has touched these images and NASA is more than happy that anyone is looking at them. Even civilians 'touch up' photos on their own and some for NASA.

RAW Photo's from the InSight Missions: 

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cdate_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=insight

So I had on my NASA JPL cap. I'm a bit of a NASA geek. Here's a peek at my collection...

My NASA Kennedy Space Center 'Metalion' hat. With the frosted NASA Mug (comes in a set of two) and a NASA patch.

NASA 'Gateway to the Future' sweater with a scale model of the space shuttle 'Discovery'.

I had always wanted to see a shuttle blast off, but never made it to Florida before they axed the shuttle program. Most of the launches to the ISS are done in Russia and any unmanned missions are done in California or Florida.. So maybe someday I'll see some astronauts lift off from the US, as they've just put out their 'deadline' for June 2019, and that's when we'll (The Canadian Space Agency too uses the Russian Soyuz) see the US back in control of it's ferrying astronauts and cargo back and forth from the ISS (Until it's put out of commission)..

So much more exciting missions to come, lots of science to come from Mars... NASA's 'New Horizons' is soon to meet up with an asteroid in the Kuiper belt (the first time this has ever been attempted) and New Horizon's finished it's primary mission, so they thought since it was doing just fine, they'd throw it another!

It'll be flying past 

Insight Made it!!!

Well they did it!! InSight has landed on Mars..... This 'feat' is no small thing... It takes years of planning, programming, testing, retesting, fixing, time, money, blood, sweat and tears of thousands of people working to help expand our knowledge about Mars!~

NASA has had a great track record of late with hardware getting to the surface of Mars and actually working... These missions ride atop a rocketed, rattling them so much their teeth could fall out!
Then traveling through the radiation of space, then this crazy descent, that has proven well for NASA before... But will it work this time? That's the question! They'd have been asking themselves.... Once on the ground, will the missions instruments work? Now we have to wait 5 hours before a signal tells them that the solar panels have opened... Landing was a major hurdle, but now comes the question of 'Will it all work'?

Stay tuned!

InSight Has It's Target In.... Sight! (Watch Live!)

Half an hour until Nasa's InSight will be landing on the 'Red Planet'!

Watch LIVE here: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/

And |HERE: 

So exiting! NASA and it's scientists will make history once again with this mission!

Kitty's Gotta Brand New Bag.... Erm.... Box

Elsa got some 'new' stuff today. Sadly over the last 4 months my older Brother Scott and my Sister-in law Andrea have lost their two cats, Paia and Cooper. Both were elderly cats, loved so much throughout their lives and will be missed.
I'm glad I got to spend time with Paia when I was house sitting over the Summer and Cooper recently.
Both of them were such awesome cats.

So, as they won't be getting new cats, today Scott dropped of their automatic cleaning litter box and also some food dishes.

Elsa's been stand-offish with the new bowls, even though they had been thoroughly washed, I'm guessing there's still years of cat scent on them and when you're used to having the some 'ol eating and drinking bowls day in and day out for years, then all of a sudden there's these two new 'objects' holding your food, well anyone would probably be a little wary...\

I was wondering how she'd fair with a really weird new litter box, I mean going from this was like going from a regular toilet to one of them cool new ones that flush on their own.

I can only imagine Elsa's reaction when she's in there takin a crap someday and the thing switches on to clean it LOL, she'll probably not shit in it again for a while.... Wait a second, that's not funny...
Thanks to Scott & Andrea for the inheritance from Cooper and Paia

LOL I was just gonna say, 'Looks like it's gonna be a great weather week ahead!', at least it wasn't with temperatures that were like LAST WEEK... with it's evil -25 and below temps...

And I just went to Environment Canada's webpage to get some temperature quotes And what do I see?

'Special Weather Statement'

Fredericton and Southern York County
An extended period of messy weather expected for mid-week.

A pair of low pressure systems approaching the Maritimes will bring a mix of snow and rain to New Brunswick, beginning on Monday night and continuing into Thursday. Precipitation is likely to taper to showers or flurries on Wednesday as the first low weakens, then increase in intensity again on Wednesday night as the second low approaches. Although it is too early to forecast snowfall amounts, total accumulations may exceed warning criteria of 15 cm in some inland areas during this event.

In addition, strong northerly winds are likely to develop over eastern New Brunswick on Thursday behind the second low, then diminish on Thursday night as it moves off.

So that's a fuking mixed bag of shit! Is it going to rain and snow? Snow and rain? Freezing rain and snow? Wind and freezing rain and snow and rain?

Oh well, it WAS gonna be a nice week.... Guess it'll be more indoors time getting rid of shit....

I've taken four bags of old clothes I don't wear anymore to the Canadian Diabetes clothing donation bins.
My upstairs is just about 'purged'... I only have a couple more cupboards to clean out, then it's done...

The big job is downstairs, more clothes and then all of the packing boxes I moved in with, they gotta be broken down and recycled... I wanted to wait for the basement until it was below freezing, so any of the spiders or other creatures that have made their homes in those boxes for years are good and ... DEAD!

After the boxes the biggest work will be getting rid of old stuff.. SO, stay tuned! There could be X-Files or Electronic Arts merch, MAYBE lots of Metal shirts and who knows what else...

But I've been posting for years about shrinking down my 'footprint'.... I wanna get rid of as much stuff as possible..

Too Much Stuff

Dave Brockie

[Chorus]

Too much stuff, too much stuff

I've got too much stuff

Too much stuff, too much stuff

I've got too much stuff

[Verse 1]

A little calculator in my computer machine

A doctor with a rubber glove that keeps my butthole clean

A thing I got in Austria that pulls hairs out my nose

A giant piece of wood that's formed to keep track of my clothes

[Chorus]

Too much stuff, too much stuff

I've got too much stuff

Too much stuff, too much stuff

I've got too much stuff

[Verse 2]

A car with wheels that sucks my life because it never moves

A penis that will help me with the taming of the shrews

A little boat with bells on it, oh who could ask for more?

I'll sail my ship across the seas and fuck exotic whores, oh

[Solo]

Too much!

Too much!

Too much!

Too much!

[Bridge]

I've got so much stuff, I can't see my stuff

But here's some prints from a guy named Hieronymous

I'm addicted, addicted to stuff, maybe I should go

To "Stuff Anonymous"

[Break: Mike Derks, spoken]

Hey! Yo!

That's too much stuff!

Too much stuff!

That's too much stuff...

[Verse 3]

A weird potato peeler that fills an entire room

A wardrobe trunk that's densely packed with moldy pantaloons

A savage giant narwhal with a lacerated spleen

A moldy truss once worn by Freddie Mercury of Queen

Banana bread, etruscan head, a shoe once licked by God

A bunch of stinky band-aids rolled up in a smelly clod

The dark command of Sauron and a face that swarms with bees

I’d give it all to you if I could find my fucking keys!

SME, The Orchard Music (on behalf of Metal Blade Records)