This morning at 3:53 a.m., Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station. They did a picture-perfect separation and flyaround, and…
New Moon
I squeezed more activity into my 6 hours of non-work, non-sleep time yesterday than I have on any other day….
Counting Down
One day, sixteen hours, and fifty four minutes until undocking… This morning around 7:30, I walked into the back room…
Oh Baby
Randy Bresnik, one of the STS-129 astronauts, is a dad! His wife gave birth to a girl, their second kid,…
Red Eye
The lack of sleep is starting to catch up with me. I’ve been averaging 6-6.5 hours per night for a…
Showtime, aka Rendezvous Day
The photographer walked in towards the end of Atlantis’s rendezvous with the International Space Station on Wednesday morning, and I…
The Mission Begins…
I’ve been MIA over the past week first because I was finishing up my preparations for STS-129, and then because…
$100 Hamburger
Happy Veteran’s Day! It is always a little random when this holiday falls in the middle of the week, but…
Rookie Mistakes
Monday’s Sunset I’m beginning to build my mileage in anticipation of running the Houston Half Marathon in January. I started…
Feast with the Beasts
A couple weeks ago, Jose and I were up late one night and he spotted a commercial on TV for…
Beat L.A.
We had so much fun going to Rockets games last spring that we ended up buying a 14-game season ticket…
Starting to Run
There was a time when my friends would complain that my blog was all about running. But lately, my running…
