{"id":6158,"date":"2023-12-30T15:01:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T20:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2023-12-30T15:04:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T20:04:28","slug":"fade-to-years-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/life\/fade-to-years-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Fade to Years End"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jake and I spent the last part of the year at our Valhalla Beach Shack. Highlights included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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50th High School Reunion<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Celebrating high school reunions over the Thanksgiving weekend is a tradition. This year was number ‘five-o’ for me. It was a lot of fun, and I talked with people I have not spoken to since then. Thanks to the cheerleaders – still at it these many years later – for putting it on. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Classmates 73<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I went with many of the people there for all twelve years! Like me, their parents were brought in for the space program. I fondly remember walking single file down to the beach to watch the launches \ud83d\ude80 with many of these folks. Interesting times indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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50th High School Reunion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Meanwhile, back at the beach shack…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Jimmy Buffett Highway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

As immortalized on the album A1A<\/a><\/em> released fifty years ago. RIP Mr. Buffett.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Winter Solstice visitation from the blessed Flying Spaghetti Monster!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Oh Come All Ye Pastafarians! Ramen!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Setting the mood at command central!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I finished the west wall of the living room to add some more mood lighting and a spot for my carved turtle.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Winter Solstice 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A stroll downtown on Winter Solstice. Cool murals are everywhere now in our little tourist town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Panama City Christmas Time<\/p>\n\n\n

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Panama City Christmas 2023 – 8 Miles High and Ready for Dinner!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I spent Christmas with Dave & Lisa in Panama City. We got out in the boat several times, ate some delicious oysters, and feasted on Lisa’s culinary decadence! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christmas Day Sunset over the Bayou<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Winter Gnomes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Falcon Heavy Night Launch<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elon and Co launch \ud83d\ude80 top secret spy space plan into high orbit on a spectacular \ud83e\udd29 evening!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Special Note:<\/strong> The Earth will be at its closest point to the Sun – Perihelion<\/a> – January 3-4. The orbit varies by about 3% over the course of the year at roughly 92 million miles. Now you know \ud83e\uddd0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jake and I spent the last part of the year at our Valhalla Beach Shack. Highlights included: 50th High School Reunion Celebrating high school reunions over the Thanksgiving weekend is a tradition. This year was number ‘five-o’ for me. It was a lot of fun, and I talked with people I have not spoken to … Continue reading “Fade to Years End”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Jake-Year-End-2023.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6208,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions\/6208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tubridy.net\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}