One Monday, six women (Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, Kerianne Flynn, Aisha Bowe, and Amanda Nguyen) blasted off on Blue Origin’s New Shepard space rocket for an 11-minute trip into space. Blue Origin is Jeff Bezos’s company, which is working on making space travel available to all.

“It’s this generation’s job to build a road to space, so that future generations can unleash their creativity.” – Jeff Bezos

The mission was successful, and we should all be celebrating this scientific achievement. Instead, social media went on a smear campaign, complaining about everything they could. Here are just some of the comments on “X”

“The Blue Origin space launch was more about celebrity spectacle than scientific value.“

“It was frivolous. You did not pilot the aircraft, you did not conduct scientific research. It was advertisement. You participated in an advertisement for Bezos and Blue Origin. You were a soft launch for trash in space lol“

“Am I the only person in America who doesn’t care about the Blue Origin space launch that went to the near edge of space?”

What happened to us? People used to be proud about accomplishments, and proud to be part of the United States. Not anymore. Now people seem to jump at any way to show their disgust and anger for anything that does not 100% benefit them. Also, there were a lot of people who seemed to dismiss this mission because it was an all-women crew. Only men are true astronauts and go on space missions; these women did nothing special, just went on a short joy ride.

I am not the best at writing and explaining my thoughts and feelings. Hopefully, the more I write, the better I become. I am just sad and sick of all the negativity. I realize it’s really a small percentage of people, most of whom are just looking for a reaction. Hopefully they will outgrow their jealousy, ignorance, and nastiness at some point.

Just to mix things up, came across this video last night and thought it was really cool

Black Mirror is back for a new season on Netflix. Kind of a modern-day Twilight Zone, there have been some really great episodes over the years. One of the best episodes was Season 4’s “USS Callister”. Starring the great Cristin Melioti it was a cool play on Star Trek. Season 7 starts with the sequel ‘USS Callister: Into Infinity”. I rewatched the original to refresh myself, and am looking forward to the sequel with a review to follow

Here are some other things I have been watching over the past few weeks

Extinction staring Michael Peña and Lizzy Caplan – Really enjoyed it. Need more good Sci-Fi movies

Your Friends & Neighbors staring Jon Hamm and Olivia Munn — Interesting. Lets see where it goes

9-1-1 Still a very enjoyable show. Keeps me interested each week

The Last of Us – The first episode of Season 2 was really good. Looking forward to this

There are new episodes of “Survivor 48” and “The Amazing Race” on tonight. Have been enjoying both shows and looking forward to seeing who comes out on top

I saw that applications are open for both shows

https://www.cbssurvivorcasting.com/home

https://www.theamazingracecasting.com/home

I will need to put something together and get it submitted in the next week. Kind of torn, as I really do need to find a new job, and don’t want to find something only to tell them I need to take six weeks off. But I am not going to stop dreaming and will cross that bridge when the time comes

The NY Mets are off to a good start. Considering that the bottom half of the lineup can’t buy a hit, and they have not been playing crisp defense, at 11-6, they are actually leading the NL East. Get-away game today in Minnesota, and then they start a 7-game homestand against the Cardinals and Phillies.

Congratulations to Rory McIlroy for winning The Masters this past weekend and completing the Golf Grand Slam. I wasnt easy, and there were some doubts, but he pulled himself together and found a way to win on the 1st play-off hole.

In men’s professional golf, a Career Grand Slam is achieved by winning all four major championships (The Masters, U.S. Open, Open Championship, and PGA Championship) during a golfer’s career. As of 2025, only six golfers have accomplished this feat: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and now Rory McIlroy.

Been doing a lot of walking lately, getting out early and going over 5 miles. So far, so good, and looking forward to continuing (and warmer weather). Still folling my 3 song rule, where I only listen to 3 songs from a particual artit, and then move on. This alows me to mix things up, but also enjoy some deeper tracks

Here are some recent artists I lisened to on my walks

Blue Oyster Cult (Dancin in the Ruins, Vetran of the Psychic Wars, Joan Crawford)

Dokken (Kiss of Death, Prisoner, Night By Night, Standing in the Shadows, Burning Like a Flame)

Heavy Metal Sound Track (Reach Out – Cheap Trick, Heavy Metal (Takin’ a Ride) – Don Felder

Police (Canary in a Coalmine, Driven to Tears, Murder by Numbers)

Savatage (Doesnt Matter Anyway, Hall of the Mountain King, Hounds, Beleive)

There were others, but you get the jist

There is some much music out there (both new, old, classic and obscure). I highly recommend thst everybody should take some time and listen to a few songs of their favorite artist, soundtrack or genere.

Im sure there are more things to write about but its been a while (Im a slow typer, plust make a lot of mistakes so end up using spell sheck way to often.

Going to sign off now, but will be back sooner than later with some more thoughts and opinions

Really appreciate anyboy out there who reades this and would love to hear from you

Have a Great Day

Anverage Andy

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