jay | In nearly top form, today

Jetlagged? Nah.

I wowed them.

An ovation... from a *review panel* meeting at JPL. When I started my talk, faces were attentive-but-neutral... by the end, smiles and nods and congratulations. And applause, which almost never happens in technical meetings.

But my team did a great job, the project is/was a resounding technical success and has gone far towards establishing the technical feasibility of doing subsurface exploration on Mars in the next decade, so what's not to like? And I rock, especially when I can even get known sceptics agreeing and nodding.

And GM and SP both had favorable hints about further work in this line, rumors they'd heard. :)

	JPL deer Walking past security over to the headquarters building (180) where the review was held today, this morning I spotted this deer, grazing... with a fawn hidden in the bushes.
	McKay talk Chris McKay talking about past, current, and future prospects for life on Mars, at JPL.