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More wild and wooly times...
Oct. 24th, 2000 10:45 pmOne day and a wakeup left until I travel up "nawth" to visit the folks.
Up until about 2 pm this afternoon, the plan was for me to stay away from the office during the day tomorrow, instead putting in my time "on console" during one shift of another murderous 29-hour simulation. There, I would interpret simulated conversations between the MCC "capcom" and the counterpart position at MCC-M. All fairly cut and dried, actually.
At any rate, by mid-afternoon, it was clear that there were entirely too many other things that needed doing for me to waltz off and interpret way into the night. (Did I mention the shift is scheduled to end at 2:30 am? And that my flight leaves the ground a scant 7 hours later?) A few calls later, and I was free of the sim shift, and right back in the fire.
Now instead, I have a "window" of time between about 9:30 am and 10:45 am tomorrow, during which time I have to attend a fairly high-pressure meeting to hold forth on the company's ability to support upcoming operations once everything goes to "steady-state, real-time" mode. Meetings such as this are announced well in advance, but only to those who receive the announcement. I found out about the meeting today, which gives me less than 24 hours to prepare. As a result, I've just spent some quality time with my own personal copy of PowerPoint (I hate working late in the office), putting together something I hope will hold water as I step before a bunch of senior NASA managers to sing of all we will do (and do well!) to support the program.
But that's not the real reason for taking me off of sim support. It turns out the company's been nominated for an award, and consequently, we have to provide some words that describe, in glowing phrases, our good qualities. To be frank, we have plenty of those - good qualities, that is - but I have less than a day to catalog them and put them down on phosphor for all eternity, or at least for the eyes of the nominations committee.
I spent much of the day cribbing material from earlier nominations (some of which were written by professional, um, civil servants, and thus lack that certain je ne sais quoi in the comprehensibility department), so I have something of a leg up on tomorrow, but when you consider the aforementioned meeting, as well as the several translations that I've been asked to edit...well...it's fixin' to be a pretty exciting day tomorrow.
Even more exciting than today, if'n I don't get the editing done now before I lay me down to rest.
Cheers...
Up until about 2 pm this afternoon, the plan was for me to stay away from the office during the day tomorrow, instead putting in my time "on console" during one shift of another murderous 29-hour simulation. There, I would interpret simulated conversations between the MCC "capcom" and the counterpart position at MCC-M. All fairly cut and dried, actually.
At any rate, by mid-afternoon, it was clear that there were entirely too many other things that needed doing for me to waltz off and interpret way into the night. (Did I mention the shift is scheduled to end at 2:30 am? And that my flight leaves the ground a scant 7 hours later?) A few calls later, and I was free of the sim shift, and right back in the fire.
Now instead, I have a "window" of time between about 9:30 am and 10:45 am tomorrow, during which time I have to attend a fairly high-pressure meeting to hold forth on the company's ability to support upcoming operations once everything goes to "steady-state, real-time" mode. Meetings such as this are announced well in advance, but only to those who receive the announcement. I found out about the meeting today, which gives me less than 24 hours to prepare. As a result, I've just spent some quality time with my own personal copy of PowerPoint (I hate working late in the office), putting together something I hope will hold water as I step before a bunch of senior NASA managers to sing of all we will do (and do well!) to support the program.
But that's not the real reason for taking me off of sim support. It turns out the company's been nominated for an award, and consequently, we have to provide some words that describe, in glowing phrases, our good qualities. To be frank, we have plenty of those - good qualities, that is - but I have less than a day to catalog them and put them down on phosphor for all eternity, or at least for the eyes of the nominations committee.
I spent much of the day cribbing material from earlier nominations (some of which were written by professional, um, civil servants, and thus lack that certain je ne sais quoi in the comprehensibility department), so I have something of a leg up on tomorrow, but when you consider the aforementioned meeting, as well as the several translations that I've been asked to edit...well...it's fixin' to be a pretty exciting day tomorrow.
Even more exciting than today, if'n I don't get the editing done now before I lay me down to rest.
Cheers...
