After a completely dysfunctional gathering of air traffic control and IT folks yesterday in Arlington... the FAA is in the process of making exactly the same incrementalist architectural mistakes that have given us the heavily stovepiped, piecewise-incompatible architecture of today's ATC system. Sigh. True to institutional form... just as NASA is, in its different ways. And then pressure from JL, and then ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
patgreene's accident.... by the end of the day my back was knotted and I was full of adrenaline.
And yes, one of my schools (Georgia Tech) had its basketball team playing in the NCAA final last night, but the last thing I needed was more stress from watching that. Especially considering the final score :-(. An open virtual shoulder and timely advice fromdawnd, yesterday evening... helped me de-stress as well as have a much better time, later on in the evening :).
I badly needed company. And some kind of casual touch or hugging, which is important to me to unwind and relax in a given setting. Fortunately, I had a date withgeekchick, and armed with Dawn's advice I actually dared to ask for what I wanted. And it was a good outing... I waited in the Ritz bar for her for awhile and listened to a pretty good jazz pianist, sipping an apple "martini"... she found me, we talked, we both unfroze, we then went to a nearby Thai restaurant that Cathy likes and had IMO the most open conversation we'd had in at least a couple of months. And some hugs... and even rubbing a couple of knots in my back before she dropped me back at the hotel area. I think it helped to ask directly :). Both of us seemed happier by the time we parted.
Today... return home from Washington.
patgreene's accident.... by the end of the day my back was knotted and I was full of adrenaline. And yes, one of my schools (Georgia Tech) had its basketball team playing in the NCAA final last night, but the last thing I needed was more stress from watching that. Especially considering the final score :-(. An open virtual shoulder and timely advice from
dawnd, yesterday evening... helped me de-stress as well as have a much better time, later on in the evening :). I badly needed company. And some kind of casual touch or hugging, which is important to me to unwind and relax in a given setting. Fortunately, I had a date with
geekchick, and armed with Dawn's advice I actually dared to ask for what I wanted. And it was a good outing... I waited in the Ritz bar for her for awhile and listened to a pretty good jazz pianist, sipping an apple "martini"... she found me, we talked, we both unfroze, we then went to a nearby Thai restaurant that Cathy likes and had IMO the most open conversation we'd had in at least a couple of months. And some hugs... and even rubbing a couple of knots in my back before she dropped me back at the hotel area. I think it helped to ask directly :). Both of us seemed happier by the time we parted.Today... return home from Washington.
