Went to the rabbit hole again. I am currently reading about the Nedelin catastrophe [en.wikipedia.org] on Wikipedia. How did I get there? I listened to Rush and their song Countdown was playing. I wanted to know from where those space flight parts in the song were from, so I went digging. They were from the STS-1 mission, flown by the Space Shuttle Columbia. That lead to reading about the re-entry disaster of the shuttle, which in turn lead to the list of space-related disasters. From that list I wanted to know more about this one specific incident.
@matigo They are. Today was pretty expensive already1 and now this. Luckily she has 2 spare pairs of glasses.
Had to pay the first installment of the car, the annual tax for the car, and an insurance installment for the aforementioned car.
@matigo The phone has been in rice for a while but the glasses were not found. Maybe I will bike there tonight to check if someone has found them after she left the beach.
Appendum 2: she lost her brand new glasses too when the phone took the dive. ?♂
@larand Yup. I know a big part of the alphabet already so it shouldn’t be that big task to learn them all. But I would just need to find the time to take a proper look.
@larand Had to look up a couple of the letters to decipher the city name. Which leads to the notion that I would like to study Russian too. If not for anything else than understanding written instructions here and there.
Appendum: she got the phone back above the surface fairly quickly. Let’s wait until tomorrow to see if it would still work.
@33mhz Yeah… Also, she was pushing her limits with other things. She went to the beach with her friend from school and she was supposed to be back home at 3. She came at 4 and she was hangry. [urbandictionary.com] I knew her blood sugar would drop too far if she would stay too long there, but apparently she still thinks she knows herself better. ?
@peemee The cruise control in our car is even simpler: on and off switches and the increment/decrement is ~3 km/h. It has no memory slot for the previously set speed, IIRC.