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wordplayOK, so today I was driving back to my office from a meeting and M called, which was awesome enough as it was the second time today that I had been thinking, "oh, I should call M and ask him some random pointless question" when my phone rang and he was on the other end of it. Good to know the brainshare still works and all that. So we ended up going to lunch, which became a "working lunch" of sorts, as they all do, as we talked about ironing out our weekly routine through December - I posted a while back about how crazy our travel schedule is between now and the end of the year, and it's just gotten WORSE as last week we booked travel back to Texas for the week between Christmas and New Year's. So we're talking about next weekend's trip (VA) and the two out-of-state weekends in November (KY and MA) and then our trip the weekend before Christmas to NYC, and M says, "wellllll, we really need to look at your calendar and see what your time off situation is, because this morning I bought a Christmas gift for you and the kids that is much more of an event than an object and it's kind of risky but I could easily sell the tickets and it's not like we can reschedule the trip and blahblahblah" and I'm sitting there thinking, what is this? And he made mention of a long car drive, and how it's not once in a lifetime but special and in a few more years we won't be able to do this at all and I figured out what I THOUGHT he'd bought tickets for and said, "Does that mean we're driving to Florida?" and he got this shocked look on his face and said, "I can't believe you guessed already" and then I laughed and said, "Holy shit, I can't believe you bought us tickets to a shuttle launch!"
And I still can't kind of believe it. Dear, clever man. It's scheduled for Dec 7th and hopefully it'll be close enough to on schedule that we'll get to see it go up before we have to head back home. I grew up in Houston and have attended a launch in the control room at the JSC - this time we'll be on the ground at the KSC in Cape Canaveral. The shuttle program is scheduled to end in 2010, so the clock IS ticking on these. As a leftist I have issues with manned space flight, but back before I was a linguist I was a physics student, and before I was a physics student I was a space nerd, and before I was a space nerd I was a scifi geek, and before I was a scifi geek I was a Houstonian, so this? This is really big.
It was that kind of day all day. His car wouldn't start after lunch till he realized the guys at Sears had done a crappy job of rehooking up his battery and then he got it started in a jiff. I got rear-ended on the Beltway on the way home, but our car was fine and the Volvo that hit me was beat the hell up. I found out that I would get paid for the time out of work to do my election judge stuff. We are an incredibly fortunate family and most of the time, I think I'm the luckiest of all to have this awesome man looking out for our interests and wellbeing. I suck just enough to ruin most of his surprises - I don't think he expected me to guess this one and I've already ruined another Christmas surprise he had for me just by virtue of checking the mail. But god, how much does he completely rule for his continued creative attempts?
AND OMG I'M GOING TO BE AT KSC FOR A LAUNCH!!! *twirls liekwhoa*
And I still can't kind of believe it. Dear, clever man. It's scheduled for Dec 7th and hopefully it'll be close enough to on schedule that we'll get to see it go up before we have to head back home. I grew up in Houston and have attended a launch in the control room at the JSC - this time we'll be on the ground at the KSC in Cape Canaveral. The shuttle program is scheduled to end in 2010, so the clock IS ticking on these. As a leftist I have issues with manned space flight, but back before I was a linguist I was a physics student, and before I was a physics student I was a space nerd, and before I was a space nerd I was a scifi geek, and before I was a scifi geek I was a Houstonian, so this? This is really big.
It was that kind of day all day. His car wouldn't start after lunch till he realized the guys at Sears had done a crappy job of rehooking up his battery and then he got it started in a jiff. I got rear-ended on the Beltway on the way home, but our car was fine and the Volvo that hit me was beat the hell up. I found out that I would get paid for the time out of work to do my election judge stuff. We are an incredibly fortunate family and most of the time, I think I'm the luckiest of all to have this awesome man looking out for our interests and wellbeing. I suck just enough to ruin most of his surprises - I don't think he expected me to guess this one and I've already ruined another Christmas surprise he had for me just by virtue of checking the mail. But god, how much does he completely rule for his continued creative attempts?
AND OMG I'M GOING TO BE AT KSC FOR A LAUNCH!!! *twirls liekwhoa*
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on 2006-10-14 11:51 am (UTC)(Also, zomg that accident sounds awful. I'm glad you're okay!!)
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on 2006-10-14 08:58 pm (UTC)Totally awesome leik whoa! One of the highlights of my life was seeing the shuttle launch when I was, like, 11.
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on 2006-10-15 07:30 pm (UTC)I hope it turns out to be awesome, which I can't imagine it won't do unless bad weather (etc.) postpones the launch to a date when you can't make it.
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on 2006-10-16 12:06 am (UTC)