Yes, Virginia, We Really Are Going Live

This post will be a big catch up, going backwards on the timeline. On Wednesday we had our official GO meeting. Today, we completed every task required for this part of the Go Live activities. When I finished, I jetted out to Kennedy Space Center to get a few of these (which were on sale - buy two get one free) for a thank you gift for some people who have gone well above and beyond the call of duty:




I also got, for myself, a NASA lunch bag so I can be just an even bigger dork.

The night before I did what is now a Thanksgiving weekend tradition and went to see the Osborne Family Specatacle of Lights at MGM which is one of those ya gotta see it to believe it and pictures don't do it justice. Click on the picture to see it bigger - the larger size photo does the true justice to the spectacle.



The lights dance this year, which is..umm...different. For Thanksgiving I went to a really good restaurant and had some of the best Prime Rib I've ever tasted in my life (second only to the Spirit of Dubuque riverboat featuring the stylings of the Mississippi River legend, Hal Brock). We all went out to eat because with this implementation, who has time to cook a turkey? The turkey was decent. It was hardly a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving but more of a Tommy Bahama meets Ernest Hemingway type Christmas.




No Grandma's posing with turkeys here. A lot of good, good looking men there too which substitutes well for the no-grandmas-with-turkey photos. I was serenaded..twice..by a strolling guitarist who found it funny to sing - to me - "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."

I do not make shit like this up.

Overall, not a bad few days but I've bitten all my glamour length nails off and I'm sick to my stomach. I have to go to work tomorrow and I'm freaked out to no end about how well/bad it will go. By this time next week..who knows what will have happened. But, as the mug says: Failure Is Not An Option.