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Holes on Friday
Jul. 25th, 2008 08:32 pmToday began with a video conference with a classroom at the International Space University summer session, meeting this year in Barcelona. I talked about my current and past projects, answered a couple of questions... we must have looked strange to them, bundled-up while the students were in shorts. One woman in front was in short shorts, and had the legs for it... it was almost cruel to show us that, here.
This afternoon, we finished drill checkout and began drilling tests, still a half day ahead of schedule, and getting to 56 cm in a couple of hours. Software glitches, as expected, popped up and will be dealt with... I built room for that into my plans. And the repeaters back to the base camp ground station are nearly done, so we should begin having net access from the drill site 5 km away in the crater.
It's Friday night... a week ago, I was being held and hugged at my birthday party. And it was warm. Tonight... I have nothing to do, no one to be with, nowhere to go. A bit depressing... still, not unexpected.
This afternoon, we finished drill checkout and began drilling tests, still a half day ahead of schedule, and getting to 56 cm in a couple of hours. Software glitches, as expected, popped up and will be dealt with... I built room for that into my plans. And the repeaters back to the base camp ground station are nearly done, so we should begin having net access from the drill site 5 km away in the crater.
It's Friday night... a week ago, I was being held and hugged at my birthday party. And it was warm. Tonight... I have nothing to do, no one to be with, nowhere to go. A bit depressing... still, not unexpected.
