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Jan. 16th, 2003 01:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jay(yawn) back home, again. The contractor met expectations, lots of positive feedback all around, and the program office promised me that my FY03 budget will be forthcoming. hopeforyou got repeated praise from both the NASA-Marshall and contractor folks... since this validation is coming from "outside" sources, instead of me (grin), hopefully she'll accept that she does good work and has an impact.
Coming home, we were held up by security at the Huntsville airport... they patted-downhopeforyou (no, I didn't watch...) and then went through all of her things. We barely made our flight -- they closed the plane door behind us. But on the connecting flight from Houston to SFO, I wangled another first-class upgrade for us both. On my part, I got to sit in a wider seat next to a lovely and witty companion... on her part, she had never been in first before! On this trip, she lost her forward-cabin-virginity (or something ;). I'm upgraded about 75% of the time, so in contrast it seems like no-big-deal to me.
And... ironically, I've been given orders to go on the road *again* next week, this time to Washington, DC to brief the FAA on some proposed R&D in aviation data management methods and techniques. The irony is thatgeekchick will be out here in California then... sigh.
hopeforyou got repeated praise from both the NASA-Marshall and contractor folks... since this validation is coming from "outside" sources, instead of me (grin), hopefully she'll accept that she does good work and has an impact. Coming home, we were held up by security at the Huntsville airport... they patted-down
hopeforyou (no, I didn't watch...) and then went through all of her things. We barely made our flight -- they closed the plane door behind us. But on the connecting flight from Houston to SFO, I wangled another first-class upgrade for us both. On my part, I got to sit in a wider seat next to a lovely and witty companion... on her part, she had never been in first before! On this trip, she lost her forward-cabin-virginity (or something ;). I'm upgraded about 75% of the time, so in contrast it seems like no-big-deal to me. And... ironically, I've been given orders to go on the road *again* next week, this time to Washington, DC to brief the FAA on some proposed R&D in aviation data management methods and techniques. The irony is that
geekchick will be out here in California then... sigh.
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Date: 2003-01-16 08:50 am (UTC)How do you deal with being away from the fam so often? I think I'd go mad, myself.
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Date: 2003-01-17 09:05 am (UTC)My job requires it -- I don't want to go to DC next week, for instance, but I have to go -- so I make the best of it. Learning experiences. And it would be far harder if I were a single parent or if
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Date: 2003-01-17 09:35 am (UTC)You must have gotten my share of wanderlust, then. Glad to see someone's employing it well. :)
Plus, I'm a *good* traveler...
I think the fairest assessment I could make of my own travelling skills is that I am an undemanding traveller; I deal with all the niggling little details effectively, and am content to be left to my own devices while on the road. (Admittedly, my laptop gets a good workout as a games machine on lengthy flights, as does my subscription to Games Magazine...but I would be bored silly without something to do, and I don't like taking library books to far-off places with me.)
And I agree that it would be much more difficult for me to travel if I didn't know that