Thus ends 20 consecutive days of work. I.E. I worked 2 and a half weekends back to back.

Last Saturday, I stayed in the office until midnight.

Today was the first time in the last 8 days when I remembered seeing the Sun as I left the office.

When my boss walked by my office yesterday night, he said "What, you're still here? Get a life ( Read more... )

Been a while since the last update - around a month or so. I haven't had too much to report. Work has been going well ( Read more... )

So, I typically make a New Years resolution post, but I did not do so this year. This was because I was jetting from SF to STL for an impromptu New Years Eve get to together with friends, only to soon after jet back to SF and then to PHX ( Read more... )

Howdy ( Read more... )

Just about every night for the last week or two, I've said to myself "Tonight will be the night you make a livejournal entry ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a long time I've had anything approaching a substantive post...because so very little of substance has transpired recently ( Read more... )

Amusing happenstance at the check out line at the grocery store last week ( Read more... )

We have a new contender for "Best Aspect of the Job"

Today I got to go out and see the set up for a test they were doing for one of the upcoming launches. Everything was half-assembled and strewn about the bay floor, but it was all recognizable. The significant thing is that that specific hardware was the focus of my very first analysis (and one ( Read more... )

So, here we are on Sunday evening, on the cusp of another work week.

On Friday, just before leaving for this weekend, I realized what I considered to be the best and worst parts of my job.

Best: Setting up computer simulations of different rocket parts, applying forces and constraints, defining masses etc, - hitting play - and seeing what ( Read more... )

"The 4th Earl of Hereford led the fight on the bridge, but he and his men were caught in the arrow fire. Then one of de Harclay's pikemen, concealed beneath the bridge, thrust upwards between the planks and skewered the Earl of Hereford through the anus, twisting the head of the iron pike into his intestines. His dying screams turned the advance ( Read more... )