The facility where I work received a new captain a few days ago, and this one is addressed as “ma’am.” Before returning to Navy assignments from NASA a couple years ago, she performed five EVAs totaling 34 hours. (link, link)

Line-by-line analysis of the following work:

17 MOUNT
RAINIER/IKEA
(NORTHBOUND)
HAVE A
NICE DAY
DRIVE SAFELY
(repeats)

The Social Security administration informs us that the name Elvis has dropped from the top 1,000 boys’ names for the first time since 1954. (link) The immediate post-war years were actually a bit of an anomaly in that respect. The SSA database shows that name ranking somewhere in the top 1,000 from 1909 through 1947 reaching a high at number 623 in 1922. When I was a small boy I would let people know that Elvis was my uncle whenever his name was mentioned. More precisely, he was my mother’s uncle, my grandfather’s youngest brother. At some point I caught on that the Uncle Elvis I saw at family reunions was not the same as that Presley fellow that everyone else thought that particular name referred to.

Today would be Betsey’s 10th birthday. This is what I wrote on her birthday six years ago.

I closed comments to this year’s post to keep the comments all in one place.