FD10 -- Photo day

This morning started out a little slow. My planning team built a pretty good plan and all that we had to do was finalize a few small things. So the work load was fairly light. There was a full crew conference with several organizations. That went fairly well. After the crew conference it was time for us to take our team pictures. We didn't do the "individual discipline photos" like on 12A.1 but we did do a photo with all of our "tattoos." The new, hip thing in the space business is to wear temporary tattoos.

Then things got crazy. We were asked to start planning an early undock. Apparently the uncertainty with Hurricane Dean is making folks around here a little nervous. It wouldn't be all that good to try and land a shuttle while a hurricane is knocking on MCC here in Houston. So, with that, we were asked to see what it would take to undock early so we could land the shuttle before it was time to evacuate JSC.

At a team outing at Boondoggles tonight, we learned that we are probably going to undock a day early. I must say, i'm a little bummed about that. But you ask, don't you get to take a break a day earlier then? No, actually, i don't. Because we don't have any personnel lined up for this little scenario, we are going to be asked to continue working through the weekend. While tomorrow may be my last shift on the 13A.1 mission, Sunday will be another day on console getting ready for increment work.

Hopefully, the morning prediction for the track of H. Dean will be further south so that the JSC area will not be affected and we'll go ahead and finish our nominally planned mission length. I guess we'll find out in the morning.

Tomorrow's color is bright. Wear something bright. I don't think i'll be able to pull this one off...