Houston:

It was a hero’s welcome for the four-person Artemis II crew following a textbook splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Friday evening.

The astronauts arrived Saturday at Ellington Field at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

They were welcomed with cheers, a standing ovation and hugs from NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.

The crewmates reunited with their families at the site for the first time since their historic 10-day journey around the moon concluded.

Isaacman referred to the mission as “the greatest adventure in human history.” (CNN)

Zalaegerszeg, Hungary 

The sign proudly announces that the roundabout near Zalaegerszeg in western Hungary was built with 500 million forints (about $1.5 million) of funds from the European Union.

The roundabout was built to service a container terminal on a new railway line that would help provide this landlocked part of central Europe with better access to the sea.

Rather than having to pass through Budapest, Hungary’s capital, goods arriving from the Adriatic coast would transit quickly through the west of the country into Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and beyond. (CNN)

Really?

The desire among Americans to move abroad is reaching record numbers.

One in five say that, ideally, they would like to emigrate if given an opportunity, according to a 2025 Gallup poll.

The number of young women wanting to leave quadrupled from a similar 2014 poll.

A married couple are among the growing wave of those who have actually made the move.

Safety, affordability and a better quality of life are key factors for many. (CNN)

As I am preparing to pay my income taxes, I wonder.

Yes, I wonder how it is being used.

We have so many government dollars being misspent.

We have so many in authority misbehaving.

Telling the truth doesn’t seem to be important anymore.

It seems like politics has become a dirty word.

Is someone going to come along and right the ship?

If not today, when?

For the first time in 27 years, Michigan won the NCAA basketball title.

And Elliot Cadeau of Michigan was the MVP.

After the game, a reporter asked him, “What does this mean to you?”

The reply, “EVERYTHING.”

He is a young man and winning the big game is EVERYTHING at this moment.

As he matures, something else will become EVERYTHING.

What means EVERYTHING to you at this moment?

Hopefully, you have identified the right EVERYTHING!

If not today, when?

Drought is spreading fast in Colorado and major cities are declaring their earliest water restrictions in history.

They are urging residents to cut back on the thirstiest water user: the classic American lawn.

The state is now nearly half-covered by extreme drought conditions.

Even though there was essentially no extreme drought there at the start of 2026.

Now, extreme drought in Colorado is at its highest level in five years, and at its highest level for April in more than two decades. (CNN)

You’ve tried everything else

You’ve tried being angry

You’ve tried blaming others for your situation

You’ve tried believing you aren’t lucky

You’ve tried giving up

You’ve tried exercising

You’ve tried bad language

You’ve tried blaming your boss

You’ve tried staying in bed all day

You’ve tried temper tantrums

So now, why don’t you try God?

 Scientists created virtual replicas of patients’ diseased hearts so precise that blocking a dangerous irregular heartbeat in these digital “twins” showed doctors how to better treat the real thing.

One of the first clinical trials of these custom models suggests it might improve care for ventricular tachycardia, a notoriously difficult-to-treat arrhythmia.

The study, by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, was a small first step.

The Food and Drug Administration allowed the digital twin technology to guide treatment for just 10 patients, and much larger studies will be needed.

But the results reported Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine come as doctors increasingly are exploring how a technology long used in aerospace and other industries might be harnessed for better health, too. (CNN)

The reason I wrote this blog is because it seems that technologies in other fields can cross over into medicine revealing new answers to heretofor unsolvable ailments!

Each of us must do what we can to KEEP HOPE ALIVE!

Of course, I don’t know if today’s blog pertains to you.

You may be quite satisfied with things thusfar.

We all make mistakes, however, and the memory of them seems hard to shake off.

But, the biggest and most long lasting regret is something we’ve always wanted to do.

..And never did!

I hope it’s not too late to still do it.

What has always held you back?

If it is too physically dangerous, don’t attempt it!

Is this the right time of life for you to give it a try?

If not, think of an accomplishment that would still be very rewarding.

If not today, when?

Oracle is reportedly laying off thousands of employees.

This is adding to an already long list of tech giants who are cutting staff.

IT’s all while spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI centers.

Microsoft laid off 15,000 people last year.

Amazon axed 16,000 jobs in January.

Atlassian let go of 10% of its workforce as part of its AI pivot.

Block shed 40% of its staff, claiming AI could do much of the basic coding work it needed.

Meta, which has explicitly set out to create a godlike “superintelligent” AI, reportedly laid off 700 employees while boosting a stock incentive program for a handful top executives. (CNN)

It sounds like they are “betting the farm” to me.