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Quiet and peace...
Mar. 18th, 2006 08:01 pmI did some additional twiddling for the work site, tuning some of the answers to my list of Frequently Asked Questions, and learning some more about CSS.
Then I hied myself up from my seat and started to clean up around the outside of the house, only to be driven back inside by some snow, which pretty much stopped once I got undressed. The snow started up again after Galina got back home from the store, and right now, something in the air is blocking lights more than a hundred or so yards distant.
I managed to put a couple of items on eBay; I plan to do some more tomorrow. My attempt a few weeks ago to sell some Soviet-era Czech souvenir crystal glasses imprinted in gold leaf for the trade union newspaper Trud went no place, and I don't know if the stuff I put up today (a palekh lacquer box and some movie memorabilia) will find any market at all.
It's looking as if my time may be spoken for during the last couple of weeks of April, which is always good news. The Khrunichev site (the Khrunichev Space Center puts together the Proton-M and Breeze-M rocket for ILS) still has May 2006 as the date of its next launch, but it's a cinch that the date will slip. The major question in everyone's mind is: how far? And that will depend on several factors, the primary of which being: was whatever caused the problem with the February launch a one-time deal, or something indicative of a deeper problem? The commission investigating the anomaly is supposed to finish its work by the end of the month, so I suppose I'll learn more then.
In the meantime, it's nice to know I have something to fall back upon.
Cheers...
Then I hied myself up from my seat and started to clean up around the outside of the house, only to be driven back inside by some snow, which pretty much stopped once I got undressed. The snow started up again after Galina got back home from the store, and right now, something in the air is blocking lights more than a hundred or so yards distant.
I managed to put a couple of items on eBay; I plan to do some more tomorrow. My attempt a few weeks ago to sell some Soviet-era Czech souvenir crystal glasses imprinted in gold leaf for the trade union newspaper Trud went no place, and I don't know if the stuff I put up today (a palekh lacquer box and some movie memorabilia) will find any market at all.
It's looking as if my time may be spoken for during the last couple of weeks of April, which is always good news. The Khrunichev site (the Khrunichev Space Center puts together the Proton-M and Breeze-M rocket for ILS) still has May 2006 as the date of its next launch, but it's a cinch that the date will slip. The major question in everyone's mind is: how far? And that will depend on several factors, the primary of which being: was whatever caused the problem with the February launch a one-time deal, or something indicative of a deeper problem? The commission investigating the anomaly is supposed to finish its work by the end of the month, so I suppose I'll learn more then.
In the meantime, it's nice to know I have something to fall back upon.
Cheers...
