Slip-sliding...
Jan. 23rd, 2003 08:49 amI'm inexplicably down this morning... listening to an early-morning telecon, after arriving home around 2am. I'm losing track of threads, I feel... not giving every project its deserved attention. And... I feel distance between myself and my partners and friends.
Except for Nancy, who was full of energy and affection during a brief stopover in -5F Minneapolis yesterday evening (we practiced ice-dance steps, sliding on her hardwood floor ).![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
geekchick seemed burned-out, tired and a bit unfocussed late last night (I flew into San Jose instead of SFO, joined her and her co-workers at their hotel's hot tub, then took a cab home).
But the FAA guys were pleased with my presentation on system-wide airspace-management IT. Several were folks I'd met on an air traffic project I'd run 5 years ago, quasi-familiar faces.
The three automated-drilling projects are just barely meeting expectations... granted, it's early on them all. Vehicle health management is slowly winding down (but consuming lots of time), this new air-traffic project is spinning-up (and demanding more time), and thanks to two management changes, my new boss knows nothing about what I'm doing or have done. Sigh.
I'm trying to write a paper on the results of our humans vs. rover exploration science-productivity study, conducted at a Mars-analog site in the Arctic last summer. The first draft is due for internal review in a couple of weeks, final version in a bit less than a month. The results are in the form of written geological characterizations of the given field site, one from each set of participants (exploration method). I'm trying to pull out the number of observations, hypotheses and conclusions and create a rough metric of "scientific return" for comparing these.
But after three consecutive weeks of business travel, and loud competing demands on my time, I'm feeling lonely, burned-out and a bit down. Must muster energy to attack the paper and my falling-behind projects....
Except for Nancy, who was full of energy and affection during a brief stopover in -5F Minneapolis yesterday evening (we practiced ice-dance steps, sliding on her hardwood floor ).
geekchick seemed burned-out, tired and a bit unfocussed late last night (I flew into San Jose instead of SFO, joined her and her co-workers at their hotel's hot tub, then took a cab home). But the FAA guys were pleased with my presentation on system-wide airspace-management IT. Several were folks I'd met on an air traffic project I'd run 5 years ago, quasi-familiar faces.
The three automated-drilling projects are just barely meeting expectations... granted, it's early on them all. Vehicle health management is slowly winding down (but consuming lots of time), this new air-traffic project is spinning-up (and demanding more time), and thanks to two management changes, my new boss knows nothing about what I'm doing or have done. Sigh.
I'm trying to write a paper on the results of our humans vs. rover exploration science-productivity study, conducted at a Mars-analog site in the Arctic last summer. The first draft is due for internal review in a couple of weeks, final version in a bit less than a month. The results are in the form of written geological characterizations of the given field site, one from each set of participants (exploration method). I'm trying to pull out the number of observations, hypotheses and conclusions and create a rough metric of "scientific return" for comparing these.
But after three consecutive weeks of business travel, and loud competing demands on my time, I'm feeling lonely, burned-out and a bit down. Must muster energy to attack the paper and my falling-behind projects....
