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Here is why you haven't seen updates or new stuff here...

Current Mood: frustrated

And he even remembered to get an EZBoard up. You can find it at Crystal Kingdom Archives EZBoard.

Now that I’m back online full-time, I’ll be updating this more often. How much more often, I don’t know, but surely it’ll be less than a year before my next update.

I hope.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Hisakawa Aya - Sharing the Same Tears

What is there to say when you see a dream go down in flames?

There's a kind of a haunting feeling, knowing that there's a price in lives that must be paid for any progress, and that despite this loss, NASA has still been far luckier than anyone has any right to expect.

Our dreams have taken us to space, and I'm afraid that fear will keep NASA from returning. It's all we can expect from a government agency, unfortunately.

Until we who dream are able to chase the dream without government interference, we'll be held back by those whose fear is greater than their dreams. But for mankind to survive, we must chase our dreams and reach for the stars.

There's a bittersweetness to knowing that they wouldn't have been up there if not for our dreams, that they'll never again see the green hills of Earth...but at the same time, maybe they're raising a glass somewhere with D.D. Harriman and Nicholas van Rijn. I can at least dream.

A man named Rhysling said it much better, over 50 years ago...

The arching sky is calling
Spacemen back to their trade.
All hands! Stand by! Free falling!
And the lights below us fade.
Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far drives the thundering jet,
Up leaps the race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet.

We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
-Robert A. Heinlein, 1947

Godspeed to you all.

Current Mood: pensive
Current Music: Going it Alone - Steve Schalchlin

For some unknown reason, I've decided I should start posting here to let people know what the heck is going on with the Crystal Kingdom Archives. There will be an EZBoard for folks to discuss my own version of insanity on, but this is an easier forum for depositing announcements and random rantings. As soon as I get EZBoard to respond to my attempts to create a board there, I'll even insert the URL here. Until then, you'll just have to put up with my random brain droppings.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: "On Air" - Alan Parsons