Busy

I love being busy at work! I've been so busy the last couple weeks (aside from when we were in Peru, of course) that I haven't had time to do things like write in my blog. This is a good thing, really. Although it may sometimes deprive people of hearing about where I walked the dogs last night, it makes me much happier. Even though what I'm busy with isn't the most exciting or exotic assignment in the world (it's testing new software, which basically involves writing long boring documents and attending a bunch of meetings), I do feel like what I'm doing is necessary and is contributing to our return to flight. That's important to me because much of the time since the Columbia accident I haven't felt like I was a vital part of the space program. In reality, I've been doing what I need to do to become a vital part of the space program, but it feels better now that it's not all playing sophisticated video games in Mission Control. (I still like playing the video games, too.)

I'm on the schedule for my FDO Cert Qual sim. This is the really hard sim that you do right before you do the one where they sign off that you're ready to be a certified FDO. It's a really big deal, and it's scheduled for October 7. Assuming that all goes well, I should be certified by the new year.

We went over to Matt and Stephanie's new place today. I really like their house. It's about a block from Galveston Bay, and it's up on stilts. They have a porch, swings, a hot tub, a deck, and a unique house. Sometimes I'm sad that we decided to buy in the standard subdivision neighborhood rather than finding a unique place like Matt and Steph's. But, we like our house, too.