Tired and calm
Jul. 26th, 2002 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayAfter the midnight-sun simulation run last night in the fog, VR and I were tired and slept late... until 9:30am or so. More weather issues loomed -- we had freezing drizzle and spray-like light rain, in waves -- but since it wasn't heavy, I decided to press forward with one more test site... after all, we had met our requirements already, so it didn't matter much if one of the computers or cameras now died in the rain.
At the end of a field campaign, anything that still works I consider a bonus.... I budget and plan everything as disposable, including the panoramic camera. Achieving mission objectives is overriding... personally, I become a bit obsessive, willing to throw myself (and try to drag others along) into whatever large expenditures of time and effort and materials are required to succeed. Into the breach... As long as it works, and the mission goals are met, then the other stuff feels collateral.
Until afterward, after a goal is achieved, and then I suddenly look around and realize that the people around me are strained to their limits, and I'm drained myself. That's where things are this evening. Plus wet, dirty, and smelly with itchy hair after a week without a bath.
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of scratching my head, sitting in the work tent next to a guy in a spacesuit while chatting online with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
geekchick.
The folks back at NASA-Ames have finished their part in the study, for the most part, and the science team is now dispersing. I'm concerned because K, that I brought in to coordinate the science team, apparently used our weather-downtime yesterday to give a simulation presentation to my management. Without telling me, prior or since. I'm really annoyed about this.... K has known project-hijacking tendencies. And there is an article being written about the project likewise that I hadn't known about until I read about it inhopeforyou's journal today. Sigh. Office politics end-runs, from 3K miles away. More dangerous than the polar bears, perhaps.
Looking ahead... maybe I'll take a half day tomorrow to do laundry, bathe, tidy up my tent, catch up on all of my email and LJ entries.
But... the next phase of the project simulates *human* exploration. We are working with the guys here from Hamilton Sundstrand, who have a Mars prototype suit here. And a visiting geologist and grad student (see previous entry) whose equipment trails them (sounds familiar...) and thence are willing to spend time in said suit, doing traverses. So if weather permits, I'll seize the opportunity and try to do one or two suit-sims tomorrow, rather than R&R.
It's snowing, again....
At the end of a field campaign, anything that still works I consider a bonus.... I budget and plan everything as disposable, including the panoramic camera. Achieving mission objectives is overriding... personally, I become a bit obsessive, willing to throw myself (and try to drag others along) into whatever large expenditures of time and effort and materials are required to succeed. Into the breach... As long as it works, and the mission goals are met, then the other stuff feels collateral.
Until afterward, after a goal is achieved, and then I suddenly look around and realize that the people around me are strained to their limits, and I'm drained myself. That's where things are this evening. Plus wet, dirty, and smelly with itchy hair after a week without a bath.
(webcam
of scratching my head, sitting in the work tent next to a guy in a spacesuit while chatting online with geekchick.The folks back at NASA-Ames have finished their part in the study, for the most part, and the science team is now dispersing. I'm concerned because K, that I brought in to coordinate the science team, apparently used our weather-downtime yesterday to give a simulation presentation to my management. Without telling me, prior or since. I'm really annoyed about this.... K has known project-hijacking tendencies. And there is an article being written about the project likewise that I hadn't known about until I read about it in
hopeforyou's journal today. Sigh. Office politics end-runs, from 3K miles away. More dangerous than the polar bears, perhaps.Looking ahead... maybe I'll take a half day tomorrow to do laundry, bathe, tidy up my tent, catch up on all of my email and LJ entries.
But... the next phase of the project simulates *human* exploration. We are working with the guys here from Hamilton Sundstrand, who have a Mars prototype suit here. And a visiting geologist and grad student (see previous entry) whose equipment trails them (sounds familiar...) and thence are willing to spend time in said suit, doing traverses. So if weather permits, I'll seize the opportunity and try to do one or two suit-sims tomorrow, rather than R&R.
It's snowing, again....
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Date: 2002-07-26 10:02 pm (UTC)Good luck!
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Date: 2002-07-27 06:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-07-26 11:20 pm (UTC)She didn't tell you.
She.didn't.tell.you.
Oh, I can't *believe* that. That is incredible. She didn't even mention this during the post-mortem today? Un-fucking-believable.
I'm so sorry Brian. I thought you knew about these things going on and she was communicating this to you. I have been less than pleased, TBH, with _my_ not getting prior notice to the "dog and pony show" going on. And to be frank, deliberately approached The Astrogram guy because K was giving him incorrect data on the technical info. involving the cameras, images, and projectors...
*sigh*
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Date: 2002-07-27 07:10 pm (UTC)I've written the Astrogram editor and asked to review the text before publishing, or else make them cancel it. And asked GB who was at the briefing, and why I wasn't kept informed.... sigh. This cat's away...