I love this shot!

We missed you at Wednesday nights meeting. Sorry to here your back is still acting up. I know the feeling. I hope you're feeling better after some rest and drugs.

Thanks for the cross-linkies! I can hardly wait for them to finish the space wing. They have space stuff stuck around all over-the Apollo receiving van and the ESA space lab over by the lunch counter, for instance. When that stuff is properly displayed, it will be wonderful.

I was dissapointed that I didn't get a good look at the concorde before the numbnuts descended on us. It was MUCH larger than I expected it to be. I'm planning an extended photo visit, maybe in October. If I can get the right angle on the Enola Gay, I'll do a side-by-side photo spread of before and after restoration.

I swear, if there are protesters there on THAT day, they will have ME to contend with, not just Fairfax's finest.

I can't think of anything those protesters were trying to say that I'd agree with (other than "War is bad", but we knew that).

But I have a hard time faulting their methods. Protests are supposed to inconvenience people. It gets the issue noticed.

As it is, a few things that I'm protesting are proving to be an inconvenience for me. I'd like to shop in Virginia, and there's a really good science-fiction convention in Blacksburg that I go to every year, but it looks like I might have to miss it if VA keeps their draconian anti-gay-marriage law. I'm not going to contribute money to a state that mandates that kind of bigotry.