Not for the faint of heart or easily bored, this is what everyday (except Sunday) has been like here in Cold Lake for me. Note that this is a little exaggerated, since I picked one of the good days. This past week has been much, much more boring and spirit-killing. Next week threatens to be even more horrifyingly dull.
4:50 Alarm, Check weather on Channel 50, read news on-line
5:30 Shower and dress (need to do a post on just this ordeal)
6:00 Breakfast in the coffee shop
6:50 Get gear duffel and Laptop and head to the Lobby
7:00 Through gear into back of SUV and climb in
7:05 Get Coffee at Esso Station, make locals do Star Trek Hand Signal and call us aliens
8:00 Arrive at Range, get gear out and put in high bay
8:15 Gather in break area and plan day
8:30 Put on gear
8:45 Go and open 2 of the 4 systems, troubleshoot the ones where the TIVO won't boot
10:00 Log into control room and take control of a station
10:10 Check settings, turn on IR and do initial calibrations, tune cameras, 10:40 stand outside freezing trying to get e-mail
11:15 PB&J in break room, talk about problems you've had getting system going
11:45 Begin Calibrations
12:30 Test Calibrations
12:45 Aircraft taxi's, check cloud cover, notice that ceiling is <2000 ft and you'll be seing lots of gray on the scopes.
13:15 Attempt tracking
15:30 Complete tracking
15:45 Archive data, stretch legs, make Morrocan Mint tea in break area
16:00 Get print outs of calibration tables and put with archive disks for Sys Engineer to process
16:30 Go and close 2 of the 4 systems and perform graceful shut down on the systems
17:15 Close control room, log off of work stations and lock door
17:40 Remove gear
17:50 Put gear in SUV and turn on SUV to warm it up.
17:55 Begin trip back to hotel
18:40 Arrive at hotel, put gear into room and run to sports bar attached to hotel for dinner, watch curling while eating
19:15 Call from home, too tired and mentally exhausted to be a good conversationalist, feel guilty about it.
19:50 Hang up
19:55 Blog some, to try and lift spirits, watch weather, read
21:00 PJs, teeth, cholesterol meds, bed
21:30 Lights out
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I'm at my sister's for a night during my six day ordeal.
After discussing your BLOg with her she has a few comments:
#1) Where are the Moose(s)??
#2) after discussing the consistency of Grits in the Northern Lattitudes, she told me that the Grits eventually will morf into "Cream of Wheat"!! (she should know, she is a dietician for the state of Ga, the grit capital of the world, and has done some work with the CDC)!!
Hey, she told me the correct spelling for "diarrhea" for my last blog (as only a dietician could know!!)
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