Sushi For Breakfast

Yay I changed my LJ layout :) I've always liked the Art Deco layouts, but I resisted for ages cos it felt like everyone was using them at one point. But recently I've been feeling that the previous layout was rather plain and that maybe it was time to experiment with something a bit sunnier.

My friend C, who I feared was caught up in the travel delays with the volcano ash, was back at work today as planned - they had Eurostar bookings and didn't know about the problems until they turned up on Friday afternoon for the Eurostar.

Discovery didn't land today cos of bad weather at KSC - bad enough for the STA to be unable to take off to investigate the weather due to fog. So it should land tomorrow as the weather forecast for both KSC and Edwards are looking good, but it means I won't get to see the landing as I'm in a meeting all morning and then we're out at lunch. Unless the restaurant has free wi-fi. It's unfortunate that for reasons of Ku problems and time zoneage this has been a difficult mission to follow closely, cos together they've been a really awesome crew. And it's the final seven-person shuttle crew, so the last time there will be thirteen people together in space till who knows when. And four women together in space, and two Japanese astronauts together in space. And I'm looking forward to seeing Clay Anderson on Dancing With The Stars next year :D

From karaokegal: Comment if you'd like a color. Then list ten things that you like/love which are that color.

K-gal gave me the colour White - ( under here cos there's lots of wordage )
:)

A separate post for everything else. Stuff in the news.

The General Election has been announced for 6 May. So a whole month of suffering all the right-wing loons who crawl out of the woodwork (no web link because it's all over the place) :(

Corin Redgrave dies at age 70 I know he'd been ill in recent years, but :( And Four Weddings And A Funeral was only on TV on Sunday. The only other thing I know him from is the BBC's Persuasion from the mid-1990s, he played Sir Walter Elliot as a totally unspeakable upper-class arse. If you haven't seen this, I do recommend it very highly - also stars Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds, Simon Russell Beale, Susan Fleetwood and Sophie Thompson.

Dawn French and Lenny Henry split after 25 years of marriage Double :(

Discovery is in orbit and things are progressing well, but the Ku band has packed in completely - won't send or receive, so no onboard coverage on NASA TV. They're going to record the tile survey and edit/compress it in Windows Movie Maker 7 and then send it down from the ISS after docking & hatch open, apparently (cue discussion of PC vs Mac and Windows in general from space tweeps). There's alternatives and/or workarounds they can use for docking without Ku, I guess that's what the training's for. But NASA TV are replaying highlights of the crew's training, or stuff from previous missions in the absence of Flight Day Highlights. It feels like when it keeps raining at Wimbledon and they show you a 'classic' match from 1980.

There are now 49308493840328 potholes on my journey to/from work, more than there was immediately after the freezing weather had left its mark. I think the plan is to wait until the rest of the road is worn down to the level of the potholes and then claim they're "fixed".