Daily Bread for 5.30.14

Good morning, Whitewater.

Friday will be sunny with a high of eighty-two. Sunrise today is 5:20 AM and sunset is 8:25 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with four percent of its visible disk illuminated.

Last night, Elon Musk unveiled a new, and now crew-capable, version of his Dragon space capsule. The ship can hold up to seven people, and more remarkably, it’s reusable and capable of landing under its own power:

America’s best days of space travel are yet ahead.

On this day in 1911, the first Indianapolis 500 takes place.

Here’s the concluding game in this week’s Puzzability’s series, Out of State:

This Week’s Game — May 26-30

Out of State

We’re taking a road trip for the unofficial start to summer. For each day this week, we started with the single word that completes a state’s nickname in the phrase “The ___ State.” Then we hid it in a sentence, with spaces added as necessary. The answer spans at least two words in the sentence and starts and ends in the middle of words. The day’s clue gives the sentence with an interstate sign in place of the nickname.

Example:

We learned that younger members of the local Native American triaged just a few years living on the reservation once they became adults.

Answer:

Beaver (tribe averaged)

What to Submit:

Submit the nickname (as “Beaver” in the example) for your answer.

Friday, May 30

It was difficult not to be jealous of a group I saw with a tour guide talkintly about the local sites, while ours just droned on.