On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

This past week, my account's contents achieved a certain milestone.



Glad to have gotten there through what I believe has been at least three changes of Flickr's ownership.

Update 28 May 2019: Seems like that milestone got rolled back a couple of thousand viewings.

Today has three anniversaries I know to pay attention to:

1) Holocaust Remembrance Day

2) The end of direct American offensive involvement in the Vietnam War. (I may well be unclear on the specifics of this.)

3) The Apollo I cabin fire that ended Grissom, Chaffee and White.

To those commemorating this, I wish you wisdom and peace of heart and mind.

Ray Bradbury's house has been torn down. US$1.76 million to buy it, and then just tear it down.

The International Space Station has been continuously inhabited for 5.200 days. There are obvious reasons for that to be celebrated, and a few not-so-obvious ones too, recent issues notwithstanding.

Noticing the push for better attention to mental health issues in the Canadian civil service.

And we have slow progress on the further expansion of urban light rail to the Ottawa airport. Good. May it continue onward.

This seems worth some cross-border attention in its own right. And leaves me wonder how our own air force here in Canada is doing at achieving the same goal.

Originally posted by tammypierce at Congratulations, Jeannie Leavitt!

On a more positive note:

Nearly five years into this Flickr account, and the milestone's finally been reached.

Good.

We'd been looking forward to this since Atlantis launched. Now it's finally happened: the Great Canadian Handshake.

Many thanks to Steve McLean and the rest of the ISS Alpha/Atlantis combined crew! You've helped brighten the day for a lot of people down here.