The Wizard of Mission Control

Today, the dog decided to try “hiding” to avoid the dreaded put-out. She stood in the bedroom door and peeked around the frame. I’m putting Roxy’s collar on and calling her, and she waits for me to make eye-contact. Like I don’t know she’s there unless I look at her. Then we proceeded with the foot-dragging, tail-tucking, oh-poor-me routine. At least she wasn’t shaking when she sat down on the doorstep.

I spent 4 hours last night working on my boss’s retirement video. It came out really well, except for this one clip that was orriginally given to me in AVI format. I think there was something with the compression conversion that caused this static blip once every second in the output from my video editing software, which produces MPEGs. I looked around on the internet a bit for AVI to MPEG conversion tools, but the ones I tried either didn’t work on files that big, put a big red lable saying the software was unregistered on the output, or offset the sound and the video so it was all out of synch. If anybody out there knows of something good and free, I’d love to know about it (but tonight because the thing’s tomorrow).

I had a yucky sim yesterday. I had to sit there and watch a payload coming off the end of the arm and had no good way to do anything about it because of the failures that were present. It sucked. Sometimes it’s just too much. The good news is that with the number of failures we were simulating, the odds of getting there are probably worse than the odds of me winning the lottery - which I don’t play. It would be nice to be omnipotent, though. "The great and almighty FDO commands you to remain attached to the vehicle." God, I'm such a nerd.