mi vida loca

[jay]

Charming. This morning, I have an email from the FAA, with an agenda and directions to a meeting in downtown Washington, DC in one week's time (8/25), meeting with DoD and the TSA folks regarding aviation system-wide information management (SWIM), a new project. I'm on the agenda. This is the first actual date and place I've seen for this meeting. And I already have travel orders to go to Houston 8/25-27 to a drill design review at JSC. So I've just forwarded the FAA message to my management with a modification request, to send me to Houston via DC, leaving here Sunday.

On top of that confusion, I still don't know if I'm going to Cleveland tomorrow. JL wants me there to defend SWIM's budget against the depredations of the airborne communications and navigation folks. My local management says they are out of travel money for FY03 and that that meeting isn't a priority for them anyway. I'm caught in-between. They may toss the decision to me by offering to fund either the Cleveland or Houston trip, leaving me to decide which program manager/PI to cheese-off...

So, it's Monday morning, and I don't know whether I'm going to Cleveland tomorrow, DC on Sunday, Houston on Monday evening, or which subset of the above. Or all of them... someone will authorize something by the end of the day, I'll take my orders and go. Or not, depending...

Comments

[geekchick]

JL wants me there to defend SWIM's budget against the depredations of the airborne communications and navigation folks.

Why doesn't he go defend the budget himself? Call him at home at 6:30 a.m. tomorrow and ask him. ;)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Actually, he's going to defend it in Ohio this week, and I'll follow suit in DC next week ;-).