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Another day, another dollar...
Sep. 12th, 2000 05:58 pmThe day started really early this morning, when Lee woke me up to take a phone call from Galina in Russia. At four something. I don't really remember what I said, probably something about needing to go back to sleep to rest up for a full day of fun, starting with a 7:30 am telephone conference. After hanging up, I never really did get back to sleep, so I got up for the day at 5:30 and took care of some chores - even called Galina back - before performing the morning ablutions and shoving off for work.
After this morning's telecon, I had an opportunity to take a short break, so I went over to visit some folks in Building 4 South, which houses a number of my NASA contacts, as well as many astronaut offices. In the elevator, I ran across a senior astronaut with whom I've worked several times on various projects. After exchanging pleasantries, he tells me he had a good time at the get-together I spoke of yesterday. Curious to know who interpreted for the assembled company, I asked the appropriate question. "Who do you think?" came the reply. Apparently, it was he who had been impressed into service as a linguist. Ah, well...
There's not really a heck of a lot more that I can say about work. There's a lot of it, and there's more than can be done reasonably by our staff. I am concerned that we routinely overwork people, so we've got the heat turned up real high on hiring new people. The fact is, though, that there aren't too many folks out there with the requisite talent and experience to do what we do. But I've got really good people tending to this fire, and I'm sure we will persevere. The area that really bugs me is the IT spot. The fellow who came in to interview today is way too overqualified for the position; I am afraid he'd get bored silly after a couple of months. But that's something to worry about separately, I guess. I have to learn to leave this stuff at work. Sorry to bore you, gentle reader.
Talking about perseverance, there's yet another get-together tonight to celebrate the conclusion of the Joint Program Review that's been going on the past couple of days. Strictly an a-la-fourchette kind of deal, this will be one of those informal, yet really business-oriented after-hours meetings that seem to be all the rage these days.
The JPR dinner starts in about an hour. It's billed as "business casual" dress, which pretty much means no jacket or tie. Time to get cracking.
Cheers...
After this morning's telecon, I had an opportunity to take a short break, so I went over to visit some folks in Building 4 South, which houses a number of my NASA contacts, as well as many astronaut offices. In the elevator, I ran across a senior astronaut with whom I've worked several times on various projects. After exchanging pleasantries, he tells me he had a good time at the get-together I spoke of yesterday. Curious to know who interpreted for the assembled company, I asked the appropriate question. "Who do you think?" came the reply. Apparently, it was he who had been impressed into service as a linguist. Ah, well...
There's not really a heck of a lot more that I can say about work. There's a lot of it, and there's more than can be done reasonably by our staff. I am concerned that we routinely overwork people, so we've got the heat turned up real high on hiring new people. The fact is, though, that there aren't too many folks out there with the requisite talent and experience to do what we do. But I've got really good people tending to this fire, and I'm sure we will persevere. The area that really bugs me is the IT spot. The fellow who came in to interview today is way too overqualified for the position; I am afraid he'd get bored silly after a couple of months. But that's something to worry about separately, I guess. I have to learn to leave this stuff at work. Sorry to bore you, gentle reader.
Talking about perseverance, there's yet another get-together tonight to celebrate the conclusion of the Joint Program Review that's been going on the past couple of days. Strictly an a-la-fourchette kind of deal, this will be one of those informal, yet really business-oriented after-hours meetings that seem to be all the rage these days.
The JPR dinner starts in about an hour. It's billed as "business casual" dress, which pretty much means no jacket or tie. Time to get cracking.
Cheers...
