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@johnmcquaid, we haven't worked through it all, but since my levee work was for the national desk, and I'm going to national, it might be me
News: I'm getting a new beat! As of January, I'll be the national legal correspondent for the NYT. (Didn't know I had a law degree, didja?)
working from home as the Verizon guy installs FIOS. Having trouble getting signal to the house, it seems. Have you seen the light? I ask.
Spicy lunch, happy boy. And how 'bout those Kerouac-ian auto execs? http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
nothing like shifting gears to keep things fresh and interesting; in today's paper I'm in the Circuits section; tomorrow, Business.
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all! My turkey is almost done, or ruined. I'll know soon.
Don Pettit, tinkerer extraordinaire, is on the case of the messed-up urine recycling machine: http://tinyurl.com/bzxan. But will it work?
fumblefingered in space: http://tinyurl.com/68qxjg. Gotta feel for Stefanyshyn-Piper; when I lose my bag, it doesn't make headlines
let me just say this about night shuttle launches: wow.
The things I do for journalism: http://tinyurl.com/5ou9lq
getting ready to head to Florida this week for the next launch of the shuttle Endeavour and the new Ayurvedic water recycling system
having enjoyed a perfectly wonderful dinner with the perfectly wonderful Bill Barol after two days of out-of-town reporting, it's back to NY
Getting ready to go to bed for a few hours so that I can get up and drive to JFK airport and fly to CA for a reporting trip. Wot larks, eh?
whew! Soyuz with Sergei Volkov, Oleg Kononenko and Richard Garriott touches down safely; no ballistic entry this time.
hope you like it!
There's a new installment up of my US/Russia space series. On the ground in Star City -- http://tinyurl.com/4auyss
A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants: http://tinyurl.com/5xrw8t
Robert Pearlman at CollectSpace.com has a lovely story about why the 100th Soyuz flight might not be... http://tinyurl.com/424x8j
I had to run, flat out, 1/3 mile to make my train today. Wot larks. It's always nice to arrive at work a sweaty mess!
Great moment: I told my 12-year old that if he didn't finish his homework, he wasn't going to be able to watch the debate. And he sped up.