Deadlines! August 20, 2008
Posted by spacemom in : Current Affairs, She Blinded me with Science , 1 comment so farOfficially, my book should be done in first draft form in 30 days. I have given myself until September 30. Why the extra time? Well, let’s be honest. I work, I have two younger kids, I travel and I am still working out my whole "what the hell am I doing when I grow up ?" thing. Therefore, the extra time comes in. I am actually excited about where I am in the story, and I am having trouble finding the time to sit and write. It’s the time. Where is the time?
I spent some extra time at the control center yesterday understanding the timing from a meeting that we had. Last week, our telescope went into something called "Normal Sun Mode". This means the solar arrays (the things that power the telescope) were aligned to be 90 degrees to the sun and we stopped pointing where we should and the whole thing just sat there and waited for us to tell it to go back to work. It turned out there was an SEU* that caused a computer to reboot, which caused a timing issue, which caused a slew to take too long, which caused a shut down of the telescope, which caused our instrument to reboot, which caused many headaches. So, when I didn’t write much last week? Yeah, this is why. We were busy.
Now I have a series of deadlines:
- My book, Sept 30.
- Timing paperwork and documents- soon
- annual review soon
- wallpaper removal and painting in Soleil’s room- soon
- School supplies - as soon as I know what to buy
- Girl Scout stuff- WAY too soon
- Code updates-soon soon soon
Just a lot of deadlines. I wish I could make these flow better, but I can’t right now! Any ideas how to make time work for you?
SEU=Single Event Upset…ie WTF? the thing reset and we aren’t sure why, and until we have a cause, it’s a Single Event Upset
