For the 1J THOR team building exercise we all piled into Ivan's minivan and headed out to Shiner, TX. That's right ladies and gentlemen, we rode in style. While I'm not a beer drinker myself I almost became one that day. It's fascinating to look at the process and manufacturing lines they have there. For as small as a place as it is I was baffled by the fact that they output almost 500,000 bottles a day.
On the way up to Shiner we stopped at a barbecue place Vic recommended. I must say that I've never seen so much taxidermy in one place. It's also good to see Jesus showing his support next to the fajita tacos and chicken salad sandwiches.
Unfortunately after we got there we were unable to get any photos inside the brewery, but I did manage to get some snapshots of the folks outside ye olde K. Spoetzl Brewery.
There are a couple more photos as well in the photo gallery. All the youngins of the 1J team showing those 11A oldies what's up!
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So a lot has happened in the last week and a half since my last post...
All of the floors in my house have been replaced. The entryway now has a fancy new tile makeover, along with the kitchen and the bathrooms. The living room, dining room, hallway and office have had some gorgeous engineering hardwood laid down. And lastly, the bedrooms have been re-carpeted. I promise you'll get some photos soon.
I was fortunate enough to get invited to go on a canoe trip with some of the ADCOs and their Russian counterparts that were in town. A bunch of us (16) took a day trip to Piney Woods to go canoeing on the river near there. I must say I had an awesome canoe partner, the kind that just likes to hang around in the back and cause trouble.
Josh took the majority of the photos on his camera and was fortunate to upload them to his gallery. Of course I had to steal them all and provide them on my own photo gallery for your viewing pleasure.
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This week we launched another space shuttle. The purpose of this mission is to bring up the new Japanese laboratory module, or JPM as us nerds call it. While I'm not scheduled to work in Mission Control for this flight, I'm the Team 4 person for THOR which means that if things go really wrong I can get called in to support those guys working console in whatever way they need.
My Krav Maga martial arts classes and the whole diet thing have been going well, I've lost another 5 lbs! That brings me down about 20 pounds overall in the last couple months. Not Bad!
There may be a few other things off in the distance, but I'll just let you sit and wonder for a while.
