It's up.

This is what we saw from the front yard at midnight, just now. There goes Discovery! If we'd not been too lazy to get the ladder out, we can see it lift off the pad from the roof. But, living here, that's sort of a BTDT and the ladder is a pain type of thing. Is it really awful I watch every one with a camera, in case it explodes? Yeah, okay, it probably is but I saw Challenger explode and was sorry I didn't get pictures. I don't hope they explode but it really was pretty exciting, especially how we all ran and took shelter as pieces rained down. That was sort of a high point of my life, looking back. Anyway, I grew up as a kid of the Apollo program. My dad and uncle worked on the Apollos and we lived directly across the river from the launch pads, so I grew up sitting at the kitchen table and watching rockets launch out the back door. Having lived that, it takes something exploding to get me excited. So, anyhooo...it's up. No one was killed. Uneventful, but purty. :-)