{"id":379,"date":"2005-02-27T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2005-02-27T00:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-27T00:58:00","slug":"so-tired-you-cant-even-think-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/27\/so-tired-you-cant-even-think-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"So tired you can&#8217;t even think straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So as a blogger I&#8217;m supposed to write something neat and witty about commanding my first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/MDRS\/fs04\/0225\/eva.asp\">ATV EVA<\/a> (six short letters compressing the oxymoronic phrase &#8220;all-terrain vehicle extra-vehicular activity&#8221;):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/mdrs-atv1.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, being &#8220;commander&#8221; basically meant that my job was to keep everyone on the right road so we could hit all the fun spots before we ran out of air:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/mdrs-mps2.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And now the wit and wisdom of the post-digerati blogosphere should be inserted here.  But unfortunately work on a Mars station, shorthanded and overloaded with post-refit cleanup tasks which in turn generate reams of paperwork, has left me &#8212; has left us all &#8212; so tired that I can&#8217;t even think straight:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/mdrs-sotired.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re having to jury-rig components to keep the station&#8217;s power working since the replacement generator hasn&#8217;t arrived yet &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/mdrs-juryrig.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and don&#8217;t ask about the war with the Mighty Martian Mouse.<\/p>\n<p>But, on the bright side, I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiosandi.com\">beautiful dreamer<\/a> sending me the staff of life (pound cake) by Earth-Mars express.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/mdrs-care.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So yall have a good night and I&#8217;m going to catch some z&#8217;s.<br \/>-Anthony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So as a blogger I&#8217;m supposed to write something neat and witty about commanding my first ATV EVA (six short letters compressing the oxymoronic phrase &#8220;all-terrain vehicle extra-vehicular activity&#8221;): Of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}