An unproductive day...
Jun. 19th, 2002 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpOf course, no day is really completely unproductive, but today felt as if it came close.
When I went back outside after a few minutes, the GPS had settled down, locked onto a number of birds, and was happily tracking its position. I'd written down most of the coordinates that I'd captured previously, but most of them are not terribly useful. No biggie. It's just nice to have the unit back.
I left for JSC around 11:30 am and got to the National Tire & Battery place on Bay Area Boulevard at about noon, to get new tires. The ones on the car were pretty worn, it turned out, so I got a complete new set. I was due at JSC at 1:30, but since the NTB folks promise a one-hour turnaround, I wasn't worried. I left the car and went next door to the Miyako restaurant and had some sushi for lunch.
When I got back around 12:35, no work had been done on the car, so I started to worry. They finally finished at 1:40, and I left for work cursing NTB under my breath. I managed to find a parking spot in the parking lot next to the MCC and rushed upstairs, only to find that the sim had been canceled owing to the Shuttle landing. I have no idea why there should be a connection between the two, but there is one, apparently. I called the office to confirm the cancellation, and was told I could charge 4 hours for my trouble.
On the way home, I stopped at the EPO parts outlet and bought some NiCads for my 2-m handheld and a fan for my desktop. I then stopped at Barnes & Noble and picked up the current crop of Linux magazines. When I got home, I started to work on the nuclear job that's been sitting in my bag and after a couple of hours, I got tired and took a nap.
Dinner was light. Afterwards, I watched The Luzhin Defence with John Turturro, and enjoyed it very much. It's rare enough to find a film that treats chess intelligently, but this film had much more than that. It genuinely touched me. Besides, I plan to do a little more research about the locale in which the film was shot, as I think I would like to visit it someday.
Tomorrow's sim starts in the afternoon and runs until midnight. Friday's work is from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, after which Lee and I need to start getting ready to leave for Pagosa.
It's really hard to get things done outside the framework of work. Just getting the tires on the car was a struggle. Ah, well.
Cheers...
When I went back outside after a few minutes, the GPS had settled down, locked onto a number of birds, and was happily tracking its position. I'd written down most of the coordinates that I'd captured previously, but most of them are not terribly useful. No biggie. It's just nice to have the unit back.
I left for JSC around 11:30 am and got to the National Tire & Battery place on Bay Area Boulevard at about noon, to get new tires. The ones on the car were pretty worn, it turned out, so I got a complete new set. I was due at JSC at 1:30, but since the NTB folks promise a one-hour turnaround, I wasn't worried. I left the car and went next door to the Miyako restaurant and had some sushi for lunch.
When I got back around 12:35, no work had been done on the car, so I started to worry. They finally finished at 1:40, and I left for work cursing NTB under my breath. I managed to find a parking spot in the parking lot next to the MCC and rushed upstairs, only to find that the sim had been canceled owing to the Shuttle landing. I have no idea why there should be a connection between the two, but there is one, apparently. I called the office to confirm the cancellation, and was told I could charge 4 hours for my trouble.
On the way home, I stopped at the EPO parts outlet and bought some NiCads for my 2-m handheld and a fan for my desktop. I then stopped at Barnes & Noble and picked up the current crop of Linux magazines. When I got home, I started to work on the nuclear job that's been sitting in my bag and after a couple of hours, I got tired and took a nap.
Dinner was light. Afterwards, I watched The Luzhin Defence with John Turturro, and enjoyed it very much. It's rare enough to find a film that treats chess intelligently, but this film had much more than that. It genuinely touched me. Besides, I plan to do a little more research about the locale in which the film was shot, as I think I would like to visit it someday.
Tomorrow's sim starts in the afternoon and runs until midnight. Friday's work is from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, after which Lee and I need to start getting ready to leave for Pagosa.
It's really hard to get things done outside the framework of work. Just getting the tires on the car was a struggle. Ah, well.
Cheers...
