Holiday

I hope everyone had a restful and safe 4th of July! I was tickled pink that my family came to visit me in Cleveland. We spent much quality time together which was very nice. I'm happy to say that my whole family looks healthy and well.

I was especially happy to see my favorite dog, Lily (although I think she was a little confused-- jumping into suitcases-- making sure she's not left behind anytime). But, being with my family was awesome because after the three weeks on my own, I realized just how much I appreciate them (and how much they talk).

After I bid my family a fond farewell, we visited the zoo and then it was back to work. On tuesday we visited the NASA Great Lakes Science Center which was for the most part fun-- it's got nothing on the museum of science and industry but it was definitely a nice break from the usual. Today, I got 2 fantastic opportunities-- one was attending a briefing about nuclear fuel for rockets-- apparently we have metric tons of uranium on the tips of our fingers just waiting to be used up (eek). But I was also made privvy to the fact that when we were planning on going to Mars-- it wasn't going to be a nice week long escapade for the astronauts-- those poor souls would have to spend upwards of 590 days on the hostile landscape of Mars... who wants to fly?! That's my reaction too.

The other event was Leon's meeting... which was interesting becuase I got some insight into what all goes on to prepare for the audits... the next one is apparently in August. Things were getting so pressed for time that some of the employees suggested that they hide the "unacceptabe" materials and tools in a locked closet that the auditors couldn't get to. Haha... audits.

As for databasing on my project, it's coming along a lot better than I thought. I have a pretty solid foundation... and now it's just a matter of ironing out the MANY MANY kinks in the database. Hopefully by the end I'll have something that the risk management team and I can both be proud of.

For now, this is NASA Girl On the Rise signing off.

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