No Shipping on President's Day - Federal Holiday - Watching Astronauts Instead
We admit we got distracted yesterday. We don't like to watch too much television, because as entrepreneurs, we need to stay focused on merchandise and our customers, not on people yammering away about stuff they are trying to sell.
That is what we do. We yammer at you with the idea that either we are improving our writing skills, or you folks out their in blog land are snapping up our books and CDs because you are hypnotized by our compelling prose at My-Lynx Associates. you can visit our website at:
But we found a new channel on our cable listing. It was not there before. It was by the clump of channels that provides daily dramas about women and their lives, also known as the soaps. It was the government sponsored NASA channel, and we were watching the EVA, or Extra - Vehicular - Activity - also known as spacewalk of the astronauts at the Space Station. They had the entire procedure covered with cameras. It was not as exciting as regular television, because there were fewer camera effects, but it was exciting nevertheless. We kept flipping over to another channel to watch the Philip K. Dick-inspired thriller Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger. And we felt the contradiction. Should we be watching an imaginary space thriller starring the now-Governor of California running around on a Mars Colony set in the future? Or should we be checking in on real-time video from real astronauts doing real work?
We decided to tape the Total Recall and watch it later. But it was fairly slow viewing on the NASA channel, they had to go through lots of checklists before they opened the hatches to space. They stopped depressurizing at 5.5 pounds of pressure to check forleaks in the airlines and the suits. And that was a little concerning, because when we sit around theoffice here at My-Lynx Associates, we don't necessarily need to worryabout enough breathable atmosphere. This sounds like pretty dangerous work, in other words.
Perhaps the highlight of our viewing (actually we were doing some other tasks, and we listened in on the computer after turning the television off, we found the same feed on the Internet using the NASA.gov website). The highlight was when they started talking about a leak in one of the lines. The two astronauts had already depressurized their airlocks and gone outside. They were installing some coolant lines (a media wag called them "plumbers", and I started calculating their billable rate for service rendered) and while we were doing something else they apparently filled the lines with liquid ammonia to test the circulation of the coolants. The discussion with the staff on the ground centered around if some small "snow flakes" that one of them had seen momentarily was actually an ammonia leak. They seemed to be very concerned about that. Maybe if they had gone back in with some ammonia adhering to their suits, it might be pretty toxic when the temperature came up, so they had to end their spacewalk early to go through some additional procedures to insure that the ammonia would not .
So, we were so involved with the activities that we did not post our blog yesterday. But there is no shipping tomorrow, so we could relax a little. Tomorrow is President's Day, the Post Office is closed, so we are busy preparing merchandise, but it will just have to sit in the corner until Tuesday, when we will once again leap into action.
That is what we do. We yammer at you with the idea that either we are improving our writing skills, or you folks out their in blog land are snapping up our books and CDs because you are hypnotized by our compelling prose at My-Lynx Associates. you can visit our website at:
But we found a new channel on our cable listing. It was not there before. It was by the clump of channels that provides daily dramas about women and their lives, also known as the soaps. It was the government sponsored NASA channel, and we were watching the EVA, or Extra - Vehicular - Activity - also known as spacewalk of the astronauts at the Space Station. They had the entire procedure covered with cameras. It was not as exciting as regular television, because there were fewer camera effects, but it was exciting nevertheless. We kept flipping over to another channel to watch the Philip K. Dick-inspired thriller Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger. And we felt the contradiction. Should we be watching an imaginary space thriller starring the now-Governor of California running around on a Mars Colony set in the future? Or should we be checking in on real-time video from real astronauts doing real work?
We decided to tape the Total Recall and watch it later. But it was fairly slow viewing on the NASA channel, they had to go through lots of checklists before they opened the hatches to space. They stopped depressurizing at 5.5 pounds of pressure to check forleaks in the airlines and the suits. And that was a little concerning, because when we sit around theoffice here at My-Lynx Associates, we don't necessarily need to worryabout enough breathable atmosphere. This sounds like pretty dangerous work, in other words.
Perhaps the highlight of our viewing (actually we were doing some other tasks, and we listened in on the computer after turning the television off, we found the same feed on the Internet using the NASA.gov website). The highlight was when they started talking about a leak in one of the lines. The two astronauts had already depressurized their airlocks and gone outside. They were installing some coolant lines (a media wag called them "plumbers", and I started calculating their billable rate for service rendered) and while we were doing something else they apparently filled the lines with liquid ammonia to test the circulation of the coolants. The discussion with the staff on the ground centered around if some small "snow flakes" that one of them had seen momentarily was actually an ammonia leak. They seemed to be very concerned about that. Maybe if they had gone back in with some ammonia adhering to their suits, it might be pretty toxic when the temperature came up, so they had to end their spacewalk early to go through some additional procedures to insure that the ammonia would not .
So, we were so involved with the activities that we did not post our blog yesterday. But there is no shipping tomorrow, so we could relax a little. Tomorrow is President's Day, the Post Office is closed, so we are busy preparing merchandise, but it will just have to sit in the corner until Tuesday, when we will once again leap into action.
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