Eleven Days

Ahhhh...and here you thought i was ignoring you. Forgotten. Left out. Not so my loyal readers. I'e been on somewhat of a vacation...from blogging. I spent the last eleven days flying spacecraft. I had the rockstar shift...5pm-ish to 2am-ish. We really didn't have much going on on our shift. We put the crews to bed and then took care of planning for the next day(s). We were known as the planning shift.

This was my second flight as the front room for the planning shift. I will say that this, the ISS portion, was a rather smooth flight...even more according to plan than my flight last summer. The orbiter and her crew are still in orbit and are scheduled to land on saturday. Once the wheels come to a complete stop, we can then declare this mission a complete success.

I am extremely tired right now though. It doesn't matter which shift you work, a mission sucks the life out of you. Eleven days in a row is a long time. We have work guidelines that prevent us from working more than 12 days in a row. Luckily we didn't extend the mission any.

Despite having the mornings/early afernoons off, i didn't get accomplish too much. I did hit the gym every other day though. It was nice to go to the gym in the morning when there wasn't many people there. I don't know if i'll be able to keep it going once i start working regular hours. But i'll give it a shot.

I've been very bad when it comes to playing guitar. I've only practiced my set once during the 11 day span. Just never seem to get the motivation. I am tryin to get back to that this week.

Tomorrow, Delilah gets her first checkup. She'll get her oil changed as well as the tint replaced on one of her windows...all courtesy of Infiniti. The tint has a lifetime warranty...and i get free oil changes and maintenance for the first 24 months.

I have a few other errands that i'd like to take care of tomorrow too. So, i think i'm going to take advantage of my 4 day weekend and try to relax a bit...as well as catch up on things that i've been neglecting.

I hope you've been well.