Apparently my Friday night soccer team has forfeited the rest of the season, about six games. Seems no one saw fit to tell me about it though, as I had to deduce it myself from the league webpage. Slightly annoying, but no big loss, as that team was in complete disarray anyway. The first time I played with them, we had six or seven extra people on the sidelines, but every time since, we’ve been short people. (Which culminated in the half hour stand-in-the-cold-rain debacle before Christmas.) Anyway. That’s that. Anybody want a too-big white t-shirt with the number “13” on the back? Katie?
I’m relieved to hear that the Mars rover sent something other than a beep; JPL got a half hour of comm this morning. Spirit has been doing so well for almost three weeks that it will really be disappointing if they can’t diagnose and fix the problem. But in the meantime, opportunity is supposed to touch down on the other side of Mars tomorrow night. It’s all so exciting! I hope the landing is as trouble-free as possible.
Last night Jen had a Yuri’s Night meeting at Oriental Gourmet (a chinese buffet place). It actually turned out to be a good place to have the meeting, since it allowed us to eat dinner at the same time. I am not volunteering for anything related to the Yuri’s Night party, since I’m organizing the race, but I go to the meetings to stay updated. When the discussion moved to venues, I started doodling race t-shirt designs on a napkin. I came up with one I really like, but it’s going to be a challenge to draw. I’m going to attempt it and see what happens.
In the meantime, we opened online registration for the race yesterday, so if you are in the Houston area and want to run a 5k on April 3 and want to make me really happy, go here and sign up.
My weekend should be pretty nice. Maybe a movie tonight. Becca and I are going to test drive all sorts of cars tomorrow. And we’re doing PS interviews on Sunday. Plus a soccer game sunday night, if it doesn’t pour down rain like it did last weekend; the weather at the moment looks ominous.
