good news, bad news

[jay]

good news... in negotiations with the Army CRREL for a lunar regolith drill automation task, my budget was reduced, but only from $1.27M --> $1.15M over 4 years. Not nearly as bad as I'd braced-for.

bad news... the wonderfully competent folks at our in-house travel agency never sent me my travel itinerary for next week -- because they accidentally cancelled it. I have to rebook everything for Houston on Monday in the next 2 hours. Sigh...

Comments

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

And... fuckwits. God, I can't believe they did that.

Guess I'm not going to see much of you today. Good luck with getting that rebooked!

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Wow. Great news about the funding.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

yay on the funding...and while the travel-foo is annoying, it is much better than if the news were "no funding, but perfect travel arrangements"--- though from what I recall, you never have perfect travel arrangements, and often don't have travel arrangements at all.

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Good about funding. But the travel folks are indeed fuckwits, as others have said.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(nods) which is one reason why I've had to learn travel management skills, in order to undo their messes ;^)