Bad Day

Yesterday was a bad day. I was TRAJ for a rendezvous sim. We managed to put a bad state vector onboard. This is one of the few things you can do in a simulation that gets talked about the next day in staff meetings, and requires formal responses to the flight directors and meetings to determine if there is a break in the procedures, etc. etc. So, that was fun. It took some very smart timing coincidences to happen, but still - no excuses.

So, I went home and slept for more than 12 hours, pretty much straight. I feel better now. I must have been in some sleep debt that I didn't know about.

This morning, I went to the Houston Museum of Natural Science to see the class that we sponsored get their Challenger Center mission. It was pretty cool. They were very excited. As it turns out, the teacher that the Challenger Center hooked us up with is the teacher Becca worked with for Aerospace Scholars last year. Small world, huh!

I'm rewatching "The Fellowship of the Ring". I'm really happy with the treatment Peter Jackson did of my favorite books. Although as far as movies go, I'm looking forward more to the third Harry Potter movie coming out on video than I am for "Return of the King". I have to wait for Christmas for both, because Gavin claims the honour of buying them for me. Sigh.