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From the "SPAAAACE" column, we have the following item.
The document package that has eaten the last few weeks of my life (including last weekend and incidentally, today, which is my birthday) has gone off to ESA. If it were printed out, the paper used would weigh more than the instrument we're going to build for the spacecraft. BUT HEY We're goin' to JUPITER!...in about eight years.
Now I get to go be fed by my lovely generous friends and possibly have a very small glass of wine. Happy Birthday To Me!
From the "Children Being Embarrassingly Honest" column, we have the following item.
The toddler & I were waiting at the train platform when a man on a bicycle steamed up. It was pretty chilly out so I mean that literally. Humuhumu turned, pointed at him & said, "Hot, Mama. Hot man. Hot. HOT!" Er. I mean what do you say? "She means that in the thermal sense?" Perhaps not.
The document package that has eaten the last few weeks of my life (including last weekend and incidentally, today, which is my birthday) has gone off to ESA. If it were printed out, the paper used would weigh more than the instrument we're going to build for the spacecraft. BUT HEY We're goin' to JUPITER!...in about eight years.
Now I get to go be fed by my lovely generous friends and possibly have a very small glass of wine. Happy Birthday To Me!
From the "Children Being Embarrassingly Honest" column, we have the following item.
The toddler & I were waiting at the train platform when a man on a bicycle steamed up. It was pretty chilly out so I mean that literally. Humuhumu turned, pointed at him & said, "Hot, Mama. Hot man. Hot. HOT!" Er. I mean what do you say? "She means that in the thermal sense?" Perhaps not.
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Also, Happy Birthday.
* Mutter grumble I spent too much time converting it all into MS Office format stuff mutter grumble.
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Thank you!
(Mutter-grumble sympathies. MS Office and its infinite automatic and almost always undesirable reformatting capabilities...ARGH)
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Happy Birthday :)
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Seems like an appropriately sub-stellar birthday gift ;)
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Congrats on getting the docs out the door!
My father, who was an aeronautical engineer, once said that their byword for these things was that if one copy of the proposal was too heavy to be flown across the country in the previous generation of aircraft, the proposal wasn't going to be selected.
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And happy birthday!
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And Happy Birthday!
(Heeeeeeeee! Oh, Humuhumu. *facepalm*)
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Birthday celebrations continue in bits and pieces for the rest of the week. :)
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Also Humuhumu is hilarious. I would have gone with "yes, he does look warm darling" and then give my Apologetic Smile.
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I made a bit of a show of saying, "Yes, he's been riding his bicycle and he's gotten warm," but it didn't stop people from chuckling. Or the poor cyclist from turning very red indeed.
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And wow! Jupiter! That is FAR. (And also I'm sitting here going "SPAAAAAACE!" over and over, so thanks for that)
And, if nothing else, hot cyclist was no doubt given a little ego boost for the day :-p
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Hot cyclist went awfully red, but I think he took it OK. :P
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Yay for the document package being gone!
Heeeeeeeeee.
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Birthday itself was kind of stressful, but ended well. This weekend will be more birthday-ish, I think. :)
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Hope you have a much better time of it this weekend. :-)
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