hunkering-down toast
Feb. 1st, 2003 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayThanks for the words of support... interestingly, there has been absolutely no NASA-internal email today, just some spam on Russian mail-order brides.
I tried to go on with life as usual today... ice skating lessons for the kids, Little League tryouts, odd jobs around the house. Tonight I was going to make a nice dinner for Pat and then take her out. I just can't motivate myself to go out and make happy. Maybe staying home and consuming several apple martinis would be in order (not Scotch, after last week). Almost a wake. Sigh. Grr.
Thing is, we have technology that could detect and react to TPS (thermal protection) failures... or spherical space-deployable micro-rovers with cameras... or flexible thermal blankets that could be EVA-deployed from spacesuits. I work on the first, the second is in the lab across from my office and I've seen the third. But they apparently brought neither a spacesuit nor docking port on this flight... and there has been not enough funding to bring any of these technologies to flight test. The first technology was slated to fly on X-34 -- until it was cancelled because of tight budgets. There's a flyable X-34 today.
(shakes head) it is all so frustrating, sometimes. Time tonight to hunker down and pour one tonight... then start pushing on program management on Monday. And applyng a cluebrick to a couple of nameless entities...
(glass into fireplace)
I tried to go on with life as usual today... ice skating lessons for the kids, Little League tryouts, odd jobs around the house. Tonight I was going to make a nice dinner for Pat and then take her out. I just can't motivate myself to go out and make happy. Maybe staying home and consuming several apple martinis would be in order (not Scotch, after last week). Almost a wake. Sigh. Grr.
Thing is, we have technology that could detect and react to TPS (thermal protection) failures... or spherical space-deployable micro-rovers with cameras... or flexible thermal blankets that could be EVA-deployed from spacesuits. I work on the first, the second is in the lab across from my office and I've seen the third. But they apparently brought neither a spacesuit nor docking port on this flight... and there has been not enough funding to bring any of these technologies to flight test. The first technology was slated to fly on X-34 -- until it was cancelled because of tight budgets. There's a flyable X-34 today.
(shakes head) it is all so frustrating, sometimes. Time tonight to hunker down and pour one tonight... then start pushing on program management on Monday. And applyng a cluebrick to a couple of nameless entities...
(glass into fireplace)
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Date: 2003-02-01 05:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-01 07:37 pm (UTC)One part Sour Apple Pucker liqueur
splash of lime juice
Shaken over ice, served in a cocktail glass with an optional apple slice
cheers...