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Administrative, Space

Back To LA

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I didn’t go to the runway dedication today — I just couldn’t see sitting on a bus for six hours or so (two or three each way from Las Cruces to Spaceport America) for a photo op. There will be plenty of other people thee with pictures that will shortly be on the web. It didn’t get back until five or so, and I have a 4 PM flight out of El Paso. I’ll check in tonight.

[Late evening update in CA]

Sorry, arrived safely several hours ago. More anon.

Administrative, Space

Off To Las Cruces

To the ISPCS. Probably no posting until tonight.

[Late evening update]

Well, I made it, and made it to a great reception sponsored by Spaceport Sweden, with Absolut, whole salmon, herring, shrimp, cheese, and other healthy food. No Swedish bikini parachute team, but most of the spaceport people were women.

Off to bed now, for a busy symposium tomorrow.

Administrative, General

Some Like It Hot

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But not me, and today is the hottest day of the year in Redondo Beach. It’s eighty degrees on the lower floor of the house, and much warmer upstairs (it’s apparently 109 downtown LA). I know that eighty doesn’t seem that bad, but one of the reasons we like living here is that this kind of heat is rare, which also means that we have no air conditioning here. It may be hot sleeping tonight (last night it never went below seventy outside). There’s supposed to be one more day of this, then a cool down on Wednesday, when things go back to normal. It’s ironic that the hottest days of the year in LA didn’t come until fall. I blame George Bush.

[Update later afternoon]

Wow. According to Accuweather, it is currently 95 in Redondo (not clear where they take that reading) with a day high of 105, then cooling down to 63 (a forty-point plunge) overnight. That’s how dry it is here, with an off-shore wind. This is the first time I can ever recall triple digits at the beach. The record is 106 (back in 1964) and the normal for this time of year is 76.

Administrative, Popular Culture

Back To CA

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Probably no more posts until I get back to California tomorrow, because I don’t think I’ll have Interweb access.

[Saturday afternoon update]

Well, I got back in time to see a great Michigan/Notre-Dame game. I think we’re going to start hearing Heisman buzz about Robinson, but Michigan’s defense is still suspect. Fortunately they have a soft early schedule from here on in to work on it, before the Spartans and Hawkeyes in October.