Blogging Ottinger (tim)ISS Spotting
“Hey, Tim. Whatcha been doing?”
“I’ve been standing in a dark parking lot watching the international space station fly by.”
It’s an interesting thing to say you’ve been doing. In Dallas/FtWorth area, we’ve gotten quite a show. Just the idea of watching a man-made, man-bearing space craft (well, low-earth-orbit) a couple of hundred miles away, zipping across the sky at an amazing rate, is pretty cool. I don’t know much about the station, really, but I’ve seen it with my very eye in the Texas sky. How many of my fellows in the Northwest Chicago ‘burbs can say the same? At least one, because he’s here with me.
It’s been a good week, though I’m eager to be home. Some good work, signs of good things happening, good conversations with good people. I actually like my fellow consultants when I get with them, but I’m such a homebody that I don’t always jump at the chance. I love my family more, but I really like learning from other professionals and picking up their jokes and ideas. Tonight we had a good talk and some really fine Italian food, and capped it off with a naked-eye observation of our space station.
We built that thing, we humans. And launched it. And we’re not intending to use it to kill anybody (that I know of). We even got along, more or less, to get it up there. Nice.
Missed you the other week at the Agile 2007 conference. It was a great week!
Comment by Kevin S. — 2007-August-25 @ 01:43