We all went to the airport this morning not knowing if we were staying or leaving. NASA’s press conference was supposed to be at 1030, but Mountain Man and kids had a flight at 1000. Lucky for us, NASA leaks like a sieve, so the Twitterverse was aglow with rumors that the launch wouldn’t happen [...]
Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
1 May
Wonder Works & Downtown Disney
(Written yesterday, but the internet connection in the hotel sucked, so I had to wait to get to the airport.) Today, we wait. Tomorrow there should be an announcement about when the shuttle will attempt to launch again. But today we goofed off. If you are ever in Orlando and want to do something a [...]
1 May
Heading home
NASA says it won’t be possible to liftoff Monday and I have to be home by Tuesday, so I guess I just had a random weekend in Orlando with Sparkles and Mountain Man & co. I did have a ton of fun with them all and hope they come to visit in Cali sometime! As [...]
29 Apr
Scrubbed for 72 hours
I set up my tripod and not fifteen minutes later, NASA scrubbed the mission for 48 hours. Now it is up to 72 hours. I don’t yet know what to do. For a little schadenfreude, there were groups of people camped out away from the loudspeakers who were all still waiting around twenty minutes later. [...]
29 Apr
Are we lost yet?
At the NASA Visitor Center. What should we see? – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
28 Apr
Orlando
I’ve landed in Orlando. Uneventful trip. Sat next to a nice looking business man who reminded me of Tom Scavo on Desperate Housewives and a twenty-something Google engineer. Maybe he doesn’t work at Google, but he was wearing cheap, florescent-green sunglasses with Google written on the side and his laptop was covered in tacky stickers. [...]
28 Apr
So far, so good
I had three transfers and didn’t have to wait for a single train. I did get picked for a random search at security, but no porno scanners. Now I’m in the terminal an hour before takeoff. It makes me wonder what would have gone wrong if I’d gotten on that later train. – Posted using [...]
