Number 15: RandomNess

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Okay, enough of this depressing stuff. Or recovery stuff. Or all that jazz. It’s time for a data dump! I’ve started a new website with a friend of mine from work called the Pleiades Report. What’s up with the name? Absolutely nothing. We were being silly at a 4th of July party and, being space geeks, it struck us as a good idea. And it wasn’t taken on Yahoo. Excuse me, Yahoo! What’s on the page? Anything. Right now there are a couple of movie reviews I wrote and a really funny story on choosing her name that she wrote.

A bunch of us went to the Summer Sanitarium tour (Mudvayne, Deftones, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, and Metallica --lovely spelling, no?); fortunately, one of the attendees was our manager so she can vouch for us if we get dragged in for “random” drug tests. Due to the horrendous design of the traffic patterns around Reliant Stadium we missed Mudvayne and half of the Deftones (no big loss) but had a great time with the rest of the bands. Had a great time!

I get to go the Cape! There’s a flight hardware test for the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) at KSC and I’m assigned to the flight it’s going up on. So I’m (barring bureaucracy and other acts of God) going to fly out the day I get back from Michigan for Rachel and Chip’s wedding.

I took my first trip to Ikea. What a weird place. And it was PACKED. But I decided I couldn’t live without a shoe organizer ($5) and a garlic press ($5). At least they were CHEAP impulse buys!

I’ve been watching an anime series called Escaflowne, about a girl who gets sucked into a world behind the moon where her fortune telling works and people fight in big clockwork Voltron-type machines. I wonder if I’m getting annoyed at the repetitive plot devices because I’m watching the episodes in close order or if they’re just overused. But it’s actually a pretty good story, even if it is eating up all my time. I prefer Rurouni Kenshin, however--another anime series that a friend has been getting through Netflicks. Kenshin has a lot more humor and a lot fewer “what??” moments.

And that’s all the news that I feel like printing.