Quiet day. one interesting thing today was a a panel in our company-wide seminar “Beta bytes if knowledge”… It’s a companywide seminar on things of general interest. Today we had a panel of some of our veterans members talking about Memorial Day and service member friends that they had lost. It was very moving..
I appreciate everyone who told their stories. Thanking about a story that my friend Eren told at our burning man seminar a couple of weeks ago where one of his friends to meet served with an Afghanistan and killed himself… And it wasn’t until Aaron went to the temple at burning man and wrote a letter to his dead friend.. that he was able to get closure
Thinking of all who have fallen with Memorial day coming this weekend
I was heading back from the dentist morning when I got a text message from my good friend Naeem. He let me know that today was a big day for us.
Naeem is my favorite space freak… He’s been working very hard with a group from Bulgaria to build a small “cube sat” satellite which will be an orbit for the next three or so years. He’s going to be using it for cloud computing from space experiments. So cool
And when Naeem told me about the project I mentioned how much I would love to get a samstone in orbit. (There was already one in space.. but not in orbit see http://samstones.org/WordPress1/?p=1827)
We explored different options but it turns out that the satellites are very space and weight constraint so instead of putting a real Sam stone on it I created an image from a 3-D scan of a real stone and gave it to the manufactures. They etched into the side of one of the struts inside the small satellite.
Anyway.. Naeem was told that the space launch was today. 2 PM specifically… And then the satellite itself would be deployed around 2:30. Here’s a picture of it…
Heres a video Naeem sent me of the actual deployment into orbit
It was a beautiful night when I got home from work.. diane and I walked back up dugway .. …we went to the lower gorge…and I couldn’t resist goign in.. the water was in the 40s.. but… well.. liquid enough to swim in..
First day back at work for a week.. so kinda unsettled.. It started well though.. I got to meet our friend Ri’cs grand dog Bently.. so cute !
Work was hectic.. but thats why they call it work I guess..
after work I was faced with a challenge.. we’re thinking of adding a new heat pump.. which meant doing some rearranging of our very full breaker panels.. looks a little too full.. spent the night documenting our mess to a new electrical.. ..kinda made me feel closer to the house
I appreciate everyone who told their stories. Thanking about a story that my friend Eren told at our burning man seminar a couple of weeks ago where one of his friends to meet served with an Afghanistan and killed himself… And it wasn’t until Aaron went to the temple at burning man and wrote a letter to his dead friend.. that he was able to get closure
