Houston we have liftoff

Reporting from one of maybe three households that actually watches the NASA channel for shuttle updates, I am proud to say that all systems are nominal for the return-to-space flight of the shuttle Discovery. It's been an interesting ride since that phone call at 8 AM on February 1, 2003 when my mother woke up a still-slightly-drunk me to inform me that Columbia had crashed. I'm not the praying type, of course, but the brave astronauts aboard Discovery will be in my thoughts and prayers over the next two weeks. God speed, Discovery!

Song lyric of the day:
"I could never be Neil Armstrong
I'd be the last man on the moon"
- SR-71, Last Man on the Moon