This morning I woke up early to sit in on an Ascent Sim. in Mission Control. It was very cool, and much more exciting than the entry simulations I sat in on when I was here for the week back in June. But both are exciting. The whole idea of NASA is exciting.

But now, I am back to my desk, and having a "I am an idiot" afternoon. To keep the technobabble to a minimum, I have to explain a little to explain my idiocy. Last week, one of the other people helped me find a problem in the input deck I am using to run this program. I ran a trial case and the error was corrected. Anyway, I did not incorporate ALL the changes into the master file (I actually don't know how that happened since I was only cutting and copying). Then, I ran all the files, and never noticed that the error started reappearing. I continued my work happily away until I realized it today. It makes me feel really stupid. Its not that I wasted a week of work (since I am still learning, I am not actually doing much work, just running trial stuff to learn how things work). But its still frustrating.

In other news, I can't wait until I get paid next week...