COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Man bites oﬀ more than he can chew with comments
night, not for two days. She got
very angry and said I was ruining
her birthday.
She then said she’d pay for her
own meal. I declined her oﬀ er and
paid, but now I’m wondering if I
was wrong. She did pay for half
the appetizer, which I didn’t want
or eat, and she left the tip. Should
have told her before we went out
to dinner that I was on a tighter
budget? Can our relationship be
saved? — LOSING IN LAS
VEGAS
DEAR LOSING: Strong
relationships thrive when there
is honest communication. You
and the Birthday Girl have been
seeing each other for an extended
period of time. If money is tight,
you should have mentioned it long
DEAR ABBY: Every year
my girlfriend and I take each
other out for dinner on our birth-
days and bring a gift. This year,
even though I am currently expe-
riencing ﬁ nancial hardship, I
bought her a gift and oﬀ ered her
dinner.
At the restaurant, she ordered
the largest portion of what she
wanted. She stated it’s what she
always orders in that restaurant.
I responded that she always takes
half of it home, and that I had
oﬀ ered to buy her dinner for that
before her birthday rolled around.
Yes, she should have been aware
of it before you invited her to
dinner. Because she wasn’t, I can
understand why she might have
been put oﬀ by what she may have
interpreted as a snide comment
rather than a cry for help. Can
your relationship be saved? Yes,
as long as you two REALLY start
talking to each other.
DEAR ABBY: I am in my
early 40s. I have reconnected
with a girl I dated in high school.
Things are wonderful. I have
come to understand that she was
“wronged” by other men more
than once in the years in between.
But I have also learned it was hap-
pening during our relationship
as teens. I cannot stop ripping
ceed with this romance, the two of
you should get at least six months
of couples counseling from a
licensed professional.
A lot has happened to you both
in the intervening years since
high school. There was nothing
you could do to stop anything that
happened. She was a willing par-
ticipant in those failed relation-
ships. Your future with her will
be brighter once you know each
other better as adults, which will
involve frank communication on
both of your parts.
myself in half for not realizing it
was happening and doing nothing
to stop it. I wasn’t damaged; she
was.
I am hesitant to do anything
that makes her revisit her pain,
but it is something I can’t let go
of. I am not sure how I should
proceed in the present, so that I
don’t let the past damage a future
that seems so bright. Could you
please give me a woman’s point
of view? — CAUTIOUS IN
MICHIGAN
DEAR CAUTIOUS: Under-
stand that you and this woman
were very diﬀ erent people when
you dated more than 20 years
ago. I suspect my point of view
is similar to what you would get
from a man: If you plan to pro-
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Leak ruins NASA moon rocket launch bid
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
NASA’s new moon rocket sprang
another dangerous fuel leak Saturday,
Sept. 3, forcing launch controllers to
call oﬀ their second attempt this week
to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit
with test dummies. The inaugural ﬂ ight
is now oﬀ for weeks, if not months.
The previous try on Aug. 29 at
launching the 322-foot Space Launch
System rocket, the most powerful
ever built by NASA, was also trou-
bled by hydrogen leaks, though they
were smaller. That was on top of leaks
detected during countdown drills ear-
Chris O’Meara/The Associated Press
An American ﬂ ag ﬂ ies in the breeze as NASA’s new moon rocket
sits on Launch Pad 39-B after being scrubbed at the Kennedy
Space Center Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
This is scheduled to be the ﬁ rst ﬂ ight of NASA’s 21st-century
moon-exploration program, named Artemis.
especially on a test ﬂ ight like this where
everyone wants to verify the rocket’s
systems “before we put four humans up
on the top of it.”
NASA already has been waiting
years to send the crew capsule atop the
rocket around the moon. If the six-week
demo succeeds, astronauts could ﬂ y
around the moon in 2024 and land on it
in 2025. People last walked on the moon
50 years ago.
Launch director Charlie Black-
well-Thompson and her team had barely
started loading nearly 1 million gallons
of fuel into the Space Launch System
rocket at daybreak when the large leak
cropped up in the engine section at the
bottom.
lier in the year.
After the latest setback, mission
managers decided to haul the rocket oﬀ
the pad and into the hangar for further
repairs and system updates. Some of
the work and testing may be performed
at the pad before the rocket is moved.
Either way, several weeks of work will
be needed, according to oﬃ cials.
With a two-week launch blackout
period looming in just a few days, the
rocket is now grounded until late Sep-
tember or October. NASA will work
around a high-priority SpaceX astronaut
ﬂ ight to the International Space Station
scheduled for early October.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
stressed that safety is the top priority,
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3
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5
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89 48
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Low: 32°
Wettest: 3.32”
89°
38°
92°
43°
95°
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9.22
11.42
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0.12
18.21
16.03
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11.9
0.24
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Umatilla River near Gibbon
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Low: 34°
Wettest: 0.04”
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6:28 p.m.
2:24 a.m.
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53/96
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50/96
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ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
A stray t-shower
Very warm
74
40
89
45
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
A stray t-shower
Very hot
80
45
99
55
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Sunshine and warm
A stray t-shower
79
39
85
38
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Partly sunny; hot
Hot with sunshine
89
47
52 H
H H 90
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THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
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A stray t-shower
48
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Bend
93/49/pc 80/47/s
Boise
104/66/pc 88/54/s
Brookings
72/59/pc 75/58/s
Burns
100/53/s 86/42/s
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69/53/pc 68/54/s
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85/50/s 81/55/s
Council
97/57/pc 84/48/s
Elgin
92/47/s 77/44/s
Eugene
87/50/s 84/51/s
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93/53/s 83/50/s
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86/58/pc 85/57/s
Imnaha
95/58/s 79/53/pc
John Day
96/51/s 81/43/s
Joseph
89/47/pc 74/43/s
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94/56/s 85/55/s
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61/98
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51/93
55/92
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58/72
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64/97
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60/86
54/69
60/97
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55/64
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56/87
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52/65
58/83
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60/93
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57/91
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59/85
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56/92
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59/93
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64/95
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