![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
At the MCC...
When I visited the client's office on Thursday, I was given a heads up regarding a new requirement to certify the space-to-ground interpreters.
Words cannot express my eager anticipation of the process, and my sentiments were more or less echoed by Leonid S., whom I ran into at the MCC yesterday and who was being certified yesterday as well. (Long-time readers of my LJ might recall my mentioning Leonid in a series of posts at the end of 2000, when we worked together doing, um, space-to-ground interpretation).
Anyway, upon arriving at work for today's shift, it turned out that Mark L. was being certified this morning (about halfway through the first hour of my shift), so I got to see the process first hand, and also got to see a brief review of how to get at a load of helpful flight documents (although their usefulness in medias res is quite limited... you don't get to look stuff up while interpreting simultaneously).
* * * The layout of this part of the MCC consists of a rectangular hallway that rooms exit onto. By and large, the hall is 7 feet wide, which makes it just able to accommodate three 28-inch floor tiles across, situated above a subfloor which contains all of the wiring that makes this place tick.
Out of curiosity, I paced off the tiles and found the corridor to be 256 tiles "around." At 28 inches per tile, that's 597.3 feet for the loop. Any attempt to, say, do a one-mile walk during a break would require about 15 minutes and just over 9 loops of the hallway.
Such a stroll may end up being boring as heck, but it's exercise (which I notice I'm not getting enough of lately) and it's a way of staying away from the oppressive heat that lurks outside these MCC walls.
Cheers...
Words cannot express my eager anticipation of the process, and my sentiments were more or less echoed by Leonid S., whom I ran into at the MCC yesterday and who was being certified yesterday as well. (Long-time readers of my LJ might recall my mentioning Leonid in a series of posts at the end of 2000, when we worked together doing, um, space-to-ground interpretation).
Anyway, upon arriving at work for today's shift, it turned out that Mark L. was being certified this morning (about halfway through the first hour of my shift), so I got to see the process first hand, and also got to see a brief review of how to get at a load of helpful flight documents (although their usefulness in medias res is quite limited... you don't get to look stuff up while interpreting simultaneously).
Out of curiosity, I paced off the tiles and found the corridor to be 256 tiles "around." At 28 inches per tile, that's 597.3 feet for the loop. Any attempt to, say, do a one-mile walk during a break would require about 15 minutes and just over 9 loops of the hallway.
Such a stroll may end up being boring as heck, but it's exercise (which I notice I'm not getting enough of lately) and it's a way of staying away from the oppressive heat that lurks outside these MCC walls.
Cheers...