This is a keeper. More info on balloon technology and meteorology than any of the press have provided. Especially like your characterization of the media. I encourage others to memorize the pejoratives you construct TC.
be fair, Fern...if you forgot your birthday I can pretty much guarantee the birth certificate thing would be HOPELESS.
my trick for remembering my birthday was making it part of my e-mail address, which people now tell me if, like, a surefire way to get my bank account drained by random bad actors.
and you DO understand I was just kidding, right?