Time For Another Mid-Winter Escape

​A few events are scheduled to occur between today and Sunday, February 8. Some are generally expected pretty much as annual events, and one or two are newly anticipated.

First up, of course, is the annual prognostication we have come to know as Groundhog Day. You know, where we expect a rodent to tell us how much winter and cold weather we can expect over the next six weeks. Like that logic exceeds that of the science of Meteorology.

Well, maybe it does, based on the amount of errors the “scientists” seem to make. Right?

The next event would be this coming Sunday, when all of America stops to have their Annual Day of Gluttony… uh, their Super Bowl Parties, sponsored by beer, chips, dips, and other foods we would otherwise shun for their challenge to good and healthy eating habits. 

And after we watch about half the game which follows our food-stuffing extravaganza, many of us will pass out on the couch as we become suddenly exhausted from our carb-fest.

Then, during this week, we will turn our sights on the mundane cold which seems to surprise us each year, setting new records all across the country.

Also late this coming Sunday, if all goes according to plan, we will witness the first launch of humans to the moon since the 1970s.

NASA is sending humans back on a path toward the Moon with the Artemis II mission. Launching aboard a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, will set off to orbit the Moon on a 10-day mission. This will be the first crewed flight of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon. 

Their goal is to verify modern human capabilities in deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface.

And finally, once again, some in the Congress are showing what happens when the children  in a family can’t get along. Essentially, it is like  one child picks up his marbles and storms home until he gets what he wants, as if to spite everyone else.

It is becoming too tiresome and boring to so many, that perhaps fewer people will play with that child until he finally loses all his friends. Maybe that is what it will take, when others are willing to compromise to get along most of the time. 

Not pointing fingers, but everyone knows who it is.

So enjoy your week and watch how it ends as we tune in to “Another Week in America”.