Toolin'...
Feb. 10th, 2002 03:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpAlmost halfway through tonight's shift, and I've only just poured my first cup of coffee!
The MSR facility at the MCC looks like your typical room inside the control center except, of course, for the decorations.
The photo shows a corner of the main room, with a poster of a bemedaled Yuri Gagarin resplendent in the corner. The sign over the desk translates as, basically, "Well done, guys!" and is autographed by the Russian members of the first station crew, Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko.
The top of the photo shows the bottom half of the Russian flag. The flag is a tricolor of three horizontal stripes. The top stripe is white, which leads Russians to relate the colors we know as "red, white, and blue" as: "white, blue, and red."
* * * I stopped off at the local Einstein bagel place after "yesterday's" shift and ordered their 'traditional' bagel with lox and cream cheese. Unfortunately, it seems that each time I order one, the technique used to put the order together degrades.
In any event, I got home around 10 am and went to sleep, rising at 1:15 pm. I did some chores and then watched an old version of The Avengers, which became one of my favorite shows only after it had largely finished its run. I had no idea that the character of John Steed (actually, John Wickham Gascone Berresford Steed) originally worked solo, only to be joined by Honor Blackman as "Mrs. Cathy Gale" a year or so later. I noticed the series way after Blackman had gone on to her role as Pussy Galore opposite Sean Connery in Goldfinger, replaced by the dreamy Diana Rigg as "Mrs. Emma Peel." Afterward, I played around with the translation that is the subject of my previous post and did some cooking.
A dinner and dog walk later, I again went to bed (at 8 pm) with the alarm set for 10:45 pm.
Life can be reasonably pleasant when you don't have to zoom around at Mach 3 with your hair on fire, trying to make a deadline.
Cheers...
The MSR facility at the MCC looks like your typical room inside the control center except, of course, for the decorations.
The photo shows a corner of the main room, with a poster of a bemedaled Yuri Gagarin resplendent in the corner. The sign over the desk translates as, basically, "Well done, guys!" and is autographed by the Russian members of the first station crew, Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko.
The top of the photo shows the bottom half of the Russian flag. The flag is a tricolor of three horizontal stripes. The top stripe is white, which leads Russians to relate the colors we know as "red, white, and blue" as: "white, blue, and red."
In any event, I got home around 10 am and went to sleep, rising at 1:15 pm. I did some chores and then watched an old version of The Avengers, which became one of my favorite shows only after it had largely finished its run. I had no idea that the character of John Steed (actually, John Wickham Gascone Berresford Steed) originally worked solo, only to be joined by Honor Blackman as "Mrs. Cathy Gale" a year or so later. I noticed the series way after Blackman had gone on to her role as Pussy Galore opposite Sean Connery in Goldfinger, replaced by the dreamy Diana Rigg as "Mrs. Emma Peel." Afterward, I played around with the translation that is the subject of my previous post and did some cooking.
A dinner and dog walk later, I again went to bed (at 8 pm) with the alarm set for 10:45 pm.
Life can be reasonably pleasant when you don't have to zoom around at Mach 3 with your hair on fire, trying to make a deadline.
Cheers...
