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In This Issue: A Restless Mind | Keystone Surface Mount Box | What is Switch Stacking & Why is it Important? | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – A Restless Mind
Happy Thursday!
Some mornings it is super easy to sit down and write for this email and then there are mornings like today where I feel like my mind is blank. I thought about writing about grilling out. I thought about writing about landscaping and yard work. I thought about writing about goals. None of it felt right this morning. Maybe it’s because my mind is all over the place. Someone asked me yesterday how things were going and my response was, “Have you seen the Spongebob Squarepants meme of him cleaning 6 different things at one time? Yeah, that’s the way I feel right now mentally.”
I feel like my mind is in overdrive and trying to focus on 6-10 different things at one time, which is completely impossible. I know this is just a season and there are good parts of it too, but I think I need a vacation. Haha! It might be time to find a beach to hang out on or head down to Savannah for a long weekend.
At least it is almost Friday and the weekend. I hope each of you have a great rest of the week!
Jason
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Learning Center Article -What is Switch Stacking & Why is it Important?
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Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Life for Perseverance, the plucky rover that is currently roaming the Red Planet some 132 million miles away from Earth, is quite lonely. From the desolate, dusty landscape of Jezero Crater to the gusty Martian winds, life on Mars is not for the faint of heart — or at least, for those who are extroverts. Hence, despite being a robot on a scientific research mission, researchers on NASA’s Perseverance mission team were surprised recently to discover that Perseverance had accidentally adopted a pet rock.
- Astronomers everywhere have high hopes for NASA’s James Webb telescope. It’s supposed to give us an insight into the first stars and galaxies that ever formed and into the atmospheres of potentially habitable exoplanets. That is why NASA and its partners had engineered it to be able to withstand harsh situations, such as being bombarded by micrometeoroids flying at extremely high velocities. Between May 23rd and May 25th, a micrometeoroid that was larger than expected hit one of the telescope’s primary mirror segments.
- Microsoft is releasing an Xbox app for smart TVs, enabling consumers to stream Xbox video games even if they don’t own consoles.
- The Biden administration this week proposed new standards for its program to build a national network of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations by 2030. Officials said the proposal will help establish the groundwork for states to build charging station projects that are accessible to all drivers regardless of the location, EV brand or charging company.