Can I Go Now?

Thankfully I think all the royal wedding coverage is coming to an end. Endeavour launch coverage is quiet because they're in the middle of tanking, but I'm concerned about a rumour of a tanking reading anomaly and about the weather.

I just went downstairs to see what's on TV later tonight after the launch. Saw some of the wedding coverage cos Mum & Dad are watching. I mentioned that if it was only going to be a morning thing, we could've just had a half-day off from work, which Dad said was "stupid". I also said about how there's quite a few people at work who are actually working, because conferences and meetings and university induction days etc couldn't be rescheduled because this royal wedding bank holiday business was thrown upon us really quickly. I thought that meant they were getting married quickly because she's pregnant but Dad yelled at me for even suggesting it. If she is pregnant, she's not far gone because she's got a cinched waist dress, I saw the bit with everyone on the balcony. To sum up, the Queen was the best dressed person there and she was wearing one of her usual single colour coat-and-brimmed-hat outfits. The bride's dress was plain and her hair was a mess (but better I suppose than those ads for cable TV wedding shows with 25-stone women wearing strapless dresses), the groom's military outfit was so garish and hideous you need shades. Apparently it was a special outfit, not his dress uniform from the RAF or Coastguards or whoever he works for. And mother yelled at me because one of the little girl bridesmaids is Prince Edward's daughter, and I said I didn't know he had children and is he married as well.

There's been very little STS-134 launch news, a dramatic-looking weather front is apparently moving away from KSC, concerns are for crosswinds at the landing strip (in the case of a RTLS abort) and for weather at the TAL sites (in the case of an abort landing in Europe). Coverage is ongoing at http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/spacevidcast - just noticed they have a logo of MECO which is cool. I hope Tweeps start tweeting soon about Endeavour (very disappointed in many of them, who yesterday claimed they weren't interested in the royal wedding but have tweeted about it all day) - some of the crew have tweeted, they've had breakfast, and apparently there's a greasy spoon caff at KSC judging by Mike Fincke's breakfast. Saw some coverage of the Tweetup yesterday, some of Clay Anderson's speech/standup routine, he's the one who is fascinated by his own bodily functions and clearly should've been a Carry On film actor. Everyone was tweeting about a guy at the tweetup called Seth Green, who is apparently famous for himself, but I've never heard of him outside tweetups. I went to follow him cos I saw him asking Clay a question and he has a verified twitter account, he's an actor from those Mike Myers films in the 1990s but now does spaceflight twitter stuff. He hasn't followed me back yet.

Just remembered I should be keeping a day diary for Mass Observation. Haven't written a jot. Perhaps will copy stuff from here.

Scrub

Boo. APU heater problem means a launch scrub, minimum 72 hours turnaround. They'd better not try for a launch next Friday, have told them about my Hugh Laurie tickets - after all, I've been waiting for this theatre visit since before Endeavour was born so I think it's right to prioritise.

So no launch coverage, and no TV shows on, ie no bank holiday programming now that I missed Wallace & Gromit earlier. BBC News still kissing various Union Jack arses covering old ladies having street parties. And I asked a question without being yelled at, I asked if Kate whateverhernameis is in the RAF, Dad said no, she's unemployed, so I guess that's confused the Daily Mail, they probably don't know whether to kiss her arse or call her a lazy dole scrounger.