It was nifty that he did it on the anniversary of Chuck Yaeger’s famous flight

Did you watch that crazy guy jump out of that capsule 128,100 feet above the Earth? Ava and I had been waiting for it all week and were

He’s quite good looking. All the crazy daredevil types are.

disappointed each time it was cancelled for high winds.

When it looked like it would really happen today, I kept checking in on the TV for his progress but, honestly up until the last half an hour it was hopelessly tedious. I was fascinated by the balloon. Did you know it was 1/10 the thickness of a Ziplock bag? He was lifted 128,000 feet by a 7 story balloon made out of dry cleaner plastic bags. That’s just nuts.

I did think it was really cool how, when he looked up out his window, all he saw was black space. That was so cool.

When it comes down it though, taking into consideration that he actually fell at a top speed of almost 834 miles per hour, I think that man is a total lunatic. He’s also ridiculously brave, I guess. Still, I can’t help but keep circling back to crazy.

His mother and girl friend are some seriously patient women to put up with all that.

I had wished there was a camera on Felix’s helmet or something. I would have loved to see the descent the way he saw it. Except for the uncontrolled spin there in the beginning. I’m not a super big fan of spinning.

I guess we have to have the crazy men do insane things or we’d never get to the moon or anywhere else good. Just so long as it’s not my men. We’re gonna watch from TV like sane people.