Another quiet morning of manned spaceflight here from Houston...

My shift is moving earlier into the wee hours of the morning (tomorrow, my on-console time is 3:30 a.m.!) as they "sleep shift" the crew to an earlier sleep schedule for their landing.

So, that's what I do during missions - I work, I eat, I sleep, and I complain about my sleep schedule.

And this is me after 3 cups of coffee in 3 hours.

Some of my friends and coworkers are going to Mount Everest, to accompany an astronaut that is making a summit attempt this May. I am jealous.

So many people have exciting lives. I've also discovered this interesting blog that I enjoyed reading: Girl Sailor, I hope she keeps posting.

Byron sent me a photo of a patch from the old Southern Air Transport (back in its "Air America" days... now I think it mainly hauls plastic toys from China in its current commercial form). It said "Deny everything. Accept nothing. Make counter-accusations."

I remember the folks I worked with back at Lockheed telling me how cool doing this flight testing was before it ended in total disaster.. I really like flight testing, maybe that will be my post space shuttle career.:

Yes, I know that I am comlpaining about how other people's lives are more interesting than mine despite recently returning from a month in Australia and New Zealand and now working on a manned space mission... Maybe my threshold for excitement is too high?

By the way, I don't think comments will ever be back on this blog through my doing. I tried to switch them to haloscan, but no luck, depsite pasting the code into my templates, it just isn't appearing on the page. My current movable type comment file has 400,000 items of spam in it and I just can't clear the table...