hatman
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Liam Anthony was born on June 29, 5:52 AM. 6 pounds 7 ounces, and 19.5 inches. We're a little bit confused, because unlike his two older siblings, he's actually mellow. I mean, my wife and I are pretty confused, because he sleeps, and he nurses, and is basically happy to be here and watch the world go by when he's not sleeping or eating. Our other two were screamers when they weren't sleeping or eating, and since they didn;t sleep well, and they didn;t nurse well, it meant they did a lot of screaming.
Not sure if anyone has noticed my absence in teh last like 6 months. Been busy. Or should I say BUSY. One thing that some of you may find interesting is that our company launched a new system to the Space Station that processes the waste hydrogen from our oxygen generator, combines it with the reclaimed carbon-dioxide, and makes more water. It pretty much closes the loop in the regenerative environmental system. Management, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the resposibility for making arrangements for data to be forwarded from White Sands to our facility in CT, and then to write an application to decode it, would fall on me. Not the software developement department, but a dumb mechanical test engineer without any formal training. I actually managed to finish the app before my wife went into labor last week, and if the activation stays on schedule, they flip the switch mext thursday when I return to work. That will be the moment of truth when I get to see if my code works on real live data as well as the canned stuff I've been testing with. And by the by, there's a multi-million dollar ward fee hanging in the balance.
Not sure if anyone has noticed my absence in teh last like 6 months. Been busy. Or should I say BUSY. One thing that some of you may find interesting is that our company launched a new system to the Space Station that processes the waste hydrogen from our oxygen generator, combines it with the reclaimed carbon-dioxide, and makes more water. It pretty much closes the loop in the regenerative environmental system. Management, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the resposibility for making arrangements for data to be forwarded from White Sands to our facility in CT, and then to write an application to decode it, would fall on me. Not the software developement department, but a dumb mechanical test engineer without any formal training. I actually managed to finish the app before my wife went into labor last week, and if the activation stays on schedule, they flip the switch mext thursday when I return to work. That will be the moment of truth when I get to see if my code works on real live data as well as the canned stuff I've been testing with. And by the by, there's a multi-million dollar ward fee hanging in the balance.
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