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12 years since me and Andra actually met the first time, 12 years since we kissed for the first time, 12 years since our relationship started… And close to nine since it ended. What would have been our 12th anniversary is the ninth, I don’t know, commemoration perhaps? Does that term still apply if I’m […]

Today is World Population Day and, even though I have no intention of focusing on or even mentioning this year’s theme, I couldn’t miss the opportunity… Then again, I have missed it each year with the exception of 2008, the main reason probably being the date, considering what the next day is for me, but […]

Let me start with the good news, which is that Opportunity‘s solar panels were at one point even cleaner than when I last wrote about this, the dust factor reported on May 13 being 0.964, meaning that the dust still gathered on the solar panels blocked only 3.6% of sunlight from reaching them. That value […]

In my previous personal post, I was saying I was waiting on NASA to post another update about Opportunity, because I wanted to write another brief post about the little rover as soon as that happened, yet they did that a few days ago and, though the excuse’s gone, the post’s still not here and […]