January 10, 2004

Returned to Base

I have returned.

I left the client site about 1700 today. It was COLD up there. However, when I returned home, I discovered its COLD here too. Karol said it was 5º this morning. I don’t know how cold it was for me this morning. I only know that Dasher-1 was slow to fire. It cranked two or three slow revolutions before the mains ignited. I glided into home base just after 1900 this evening.

The night in the hotel room was not the best. Those heaters have no temperature marks so you have to guess where to set them. I woke about 0200 this morning and it felt like 90º in the room. I shut down the heater. I figured I had enough heat in the room to last until my wake up call at 0600.

At 0300, I woke up freezing and turned the heater back on. From then on, I woke up about every hour to adjust the temperature control up or down. I think I had it just about right, then the phone range for my wake up call.

Tonight I’m looking forward to a bed softer than a tabletop and a room temperature conducive to sleeping.

Posted by Ted at January 10, 2004 9:26 PM