In our division chief's office was a sign I hadn't noticed before:

It is an honor and a privledge to work for the government of the United States of America.

I am exhausted. I haven't made it to 36 hours like Sarah has - I've worked 33 in the last three days. But tomorrow, hopefully I'll have a mostly normal schedule.

Things our progressing. We're getting work done. Data is starting to be passed around more systematically. Things aren't as depressing either, when you're focused on data. And of course, people's natural humor is returning.

My favorite item from today was when we got a visit from the Spaceflight Meteorology Group on what doppler radar data they had. Anyway, they show us a map of their radar coverage (National Weather Service radars) and the groundtrack of the shuttle. There's a big missing gap over Nevada. Gavin cluelessly says "Don't you have any radar out here?" The guy looks at Gavin and says "Do you know what's there?" Gavin squinches his eyes, thinking really hard, despite the fact that he shares his office with a conspiracy theorist. Finally the meteorologist chimes in - "Well, here is Nellis Air Force base, and to the east of that is the proving test range, and well, in between those two things..." he trails off, because its Area 51. Obviously, they don't want public weather data over a place used for classified flight testing. Giggle.

In other humor, I've added this new tracker to my web site and I can see all the random people that visit and how they got here. My favorite was this one "search.evreka.passagen.se/query?q=%22my sexy toes%22&pg=q&tpl=se_evreka&kl=&what=web"

Someone was searching for the phrase "my sexy toes" and found my web site because I fill out one of those surveys "about me" and posted it on my site, and I said one of my more attractive features were my sexy toes as a joke. Scary.