Beach after work

it was hot as hell so I watched people at the beach all afternoon.

Angeles crest

rode up to angeles crest to check out some trails. Some good road and some good dirt up there.

Gas brutal

I have a small car and it cost me this much to fill up. Liberating carbon and energy ain't cheap.

60k

apparently I had 60 thousand dollars in my cash card account.

>On 2008-06-16,10:02:33 Kathryn wrote:

>>That's too funny

New card

my new filipino flag discover card. Haha I win all restaurant credit showdowns now!

Morro Bay

Morro Bay up the California Coast. Great place to go visit. I camped out next to the bay when I took a road trip up PCH. I think I could have spent a week there.

Phoenix Landed

My first month on the job and we had a spectacular landing on Mars. I even had to work. Although I was glad to be to be part of the event and I was shadowing Katherine so I wasn't doing anything critical.It was pretty darn cool. I worked in the Navigation Mission Support Area were the Phoenix navigators were working round the clock for a couple of the events like trajectory corrections and EDL. We watch the lander touch down through our real time doppler feed and everybody cheered when the lander relayed back the successful landing tone. Later on the pictures came in and we went into the main mission support area to check them out Its the room that you can see from NASA TV where everyone is wearing blue shirts. The back row is where all the VIPs sit, including Dr. Elachi, the lab director and some other big wigs from NASA. This is a shot taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the heat shield, parachute and back shell debris. Pretty awesome.