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I realize it's very self-centered, but hearing about SpaceShip One is somewhat bittersweet for me.
We were almost there.
Before the AOL offer came up, our main plan was to move to Mojave. Cheap housing prices in an area that was about to take off (Literally!). The weather leaves something to be desired, but probably no moreso than here.
Now the takeoff happened, and the housing prices aren't particularly low anymore.
It may still happen, but not as easily.
The part that really gets me is that, if we were moving away from VA a little more than a week earlier than we are, we'd have been able to go to the takeoff today. My mom's, where we'll be visiting, is an hour and a half away.
I don't really regret that we moved here. There's a lot we could have probably handled better (getting rid of more stuff before moving, buying less stuff here, and so on), but the move itself wasn't really a bad choice. It's too bad, for example, that we didn't buy some sort of condo/house/land, either here or in Mojave. Either way, the prices have gone up enough that we'd have come out ahead.
The Firestar series by Michael Flynn is a pretty good SF series about the rise of commercialized spaceflight.
We may perhaps be going to the new Air&Space Smithsonian tomorrow with Christof's grandparents and Leif's cousin, depending on timing. That would be appropriate. I hope we can make it, as that's one of the things we'd like to do before we leave.
We were almost there.
Before the AOL offer came up, our main plan was to move to Mojave. Cheap housing prices in an area that was about to take off (Literally!). The weather leaves something to be desired, but probably no moreso than here.
Now the takeoff happened, and the housing prices aren't particularly low anymore.
It may still happen, but not as easily.
The part that really gets me is that, if we were moving away from VA a little more than a week earlier than we are, we'd have been able to go to the takeoff today. My mom's, where we'll be visiting, is an hour and a half away.
I don't really regret that we moved here. There's a lot we could have probably handled better (getting rid of more stuff before moving, buying less stuff here, and so on), but the move itself wasn't really a bad choice. It's too bad, for example, that we didn't buy some sort of condo/house/land, either here or in Mojave. Either way, the prices have gone up enough that we'd have come out ahead.
The Firestar series by Michael Flynn is a pretty good SF series about the rise of commercialized spaceflight.
We may perhaps be going to the new Air&Space Smithsonian tomorrow with Christof's grandparents and Leif's cousin, depending on timing. That would be appropriate. I hope we can make it, as that's one of the things we'd like to do before we leave.
