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jay ([personal profile] jay) wrote2005-03-11 02:34 pm
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good news, bad news

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...
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[identity profile] hopeforyou.livejournal.com 2005-03-11 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] patgreene.livejournal.com 2005-03-11 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. Great news about the funding.

[identity profile] tenacious-snail.livejournal.com 2005-03-11 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] dawnd.livejournal.com 2005-03-12 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Good about funding. But the travel folks are indeed fuckwits, as others have said.

[identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com 2005-03-12 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
(nods) which is one reason why I've had to learn travel management skills, in order to undo their messes ;^)
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