The Think Tank

We are on the ground in Orlando. It is about 75 degrees and pouring down rain. Fortunately, the current conditions and forecast for Cape Canaveral are much better than here, so this crap shouldn’t effect the launch. Keep your fingers crossed!!!

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We Are staying with our friends Ansel & Tiffany in St. Petersberg, which is about 90 minutes west of Orlando. Neither Joel nor I had met Tiffany, our gracious host, before tonight, so we both owe her a great debt of gratitude for allowing us, a couple of perfect strangers, to crash of her floor.

Joel and I had a conference call for work literally minutes after we landed in Orlando which lasted about an hour, so after that we picked up our car and headed for St. Petersberg, grabbing some dinner along the way. We got to to Tiffany and Ansel’s a little after 10pm and visited for a while, then they took us out on the town to a local bar with so with some realy good beers. We came back, had some more drinks and hit the sack around midnight.

Tomorrow we are planning om going to the Kennedy Space Center for the day before heading out for the shuttle launch at 4:30am. There is a 80% chance that it will launch on time, so we are Very hopeful. If it does not launch tomorrow night, there is a 90% chance that the weather will permit a launch on Sunday night, and then a 80% chance for Monday night. So no matter what day it goes, we stand a great chance iof seeing it.

Ps: the picture above is of a sports memorabilia store we saw in Houston near our gate. As good Blazer fans it’s always good to see Clyde recognized!

I will update more tomorrow.