Perking along...

After learning more than I really care to about how Russians do vaccinations (although the exercise did explain why so many of the people I worked with at JSC kept coming up false-positive for tuberculosis during the annual flight controller physical), and taking care of two more assignments, I am currently looking at about 20,000 words due by next Monday. The most challenging of the assignments is one that I'll be calling "The Paleolithic Job™." (Almost sounds like a movie title, doesn't it?)

Galina and I did take a break today, and among other things went downtown with Thumper to stroll along the (empty) riverwalk and grab some refreshment at a coffee shop.

As we are cable-less and dish-less at the moment, we took the opportunity to get the two most recent episodes of NCIS earlier this evening and watched what amounted to the last half of what I think is the first four-part story I've ever encountered on what is normally your basic "one-story-per-episode" series. The four episodes were well-crafted, and it seemed that every time the story line paused (which would allow a commercial break to occur on network television), yet another complication would be piled on top of an ever-growing mountain of its brothers and sisters. In the end, quite a number of loose ends were tied off, and a few more were created.

Nothing to do but wait, I guess.

Cheers...