Holes on Friday

[jay]

Today 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.

Comments

[blurofego.livejournal.com]

It was over 100 here today, again. I think I would trade you weather, at least for an hour or so.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

LOL... and I'd happily agree! :)

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Because I'm in the southern hemisphere, I'm quite used to people elsewhere dressing for very different weather.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I'm probably dressed appropriately for your area, currently... here, 2-4C and breezy.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

That's actually rather cold for Brisbane - people start to whinge if it drops below 5C overnight. (And many garden plants would suffer if we had more than one frost every two-three years.) It was "only" 16C today - it was overcast and never warmed up. On sunny days it can get to 24C. Your weather sounds like a better match for further south - Canberra or Melbourne.