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(yawn) back home, again. The contractor met expectations, lots of positive feedback all around, and the program office promised me that my FY03 budget will be forthcoming. hopeforyou got repeated praise from both the NASA-Marshall and contractor folks... since this validation is coming from "outside" sources, instead of me (grin), hopefully she'll accept that she does good work and has an impact.

Coming home, we were held up by security at the Huntsville airport... they patted-down hopeforyou (no, I didn't watch...) and then went through all of her things. We barely made our flight -- they closed the plane door behind us. But on the connecting flight from Houston to SFO, I wangled another first-class upgrade for us both. On my part, I got to sit in a wider seat next to a lovely and witty companion... on her part, she had never been in first before! On this trip, she lost her forward-cabin-virginity (or something ;). I'm upgraded about 75% of the time, so in contrast it seems like no-big-deal to me.

And... ironically, I've been given orders to go on the road *again* next week, this time to Washington, DC to brief the FAA on some proposed R&D in aviation data management methods and techniques. The irony is that geekchick will be out here in California then... sigh.