From CNN: Astronaut Wally Schirra, fifth American in space, dies at 84

Wally Schirra, one of the original astronauts in the Mercury 7 project, died Thursday at age 84, NASA officials said.

…well, I’m having one of those weeks/months/years myself. Over the last few weeks, I honestly believe the fates have conspired to keep me from getting anything accomplished…today is literally the first day in what seems like forever that I can actually spend in my office trying desperately to catch up on something. It isn’t that there’s anything major wrong, instead there have been seemingly hundreds of little things all designed to waste my time and keep me from getting anything done. And week-after-next I’ve been selected for jury duty of all things - while happy to perform my civic duty, I need the wasted week right now like I need another hole in my head.

Ok, so I have two choices when life starts throwing these curveballs…I can go back to bed curling up in the fetal position and weeping quietly, or keep plugging along hoping there’s enough of a break between the tiny disasters that I can catch up a little from the last one. I think no matter how attractive the former, I’m going to keep doing the latter.