There are a lot of

There are a lot of happy Longhorns around the office today. I didn't watch the Rose Bowl last night, which is a bit disappointing since it seems to have actually lived up to all the hype. Instead, I was shooting the two Interliga soccer games at Reliant Stadium. I enjoy soccer and these guys were good, so it was a lot of fun. I looked through a few of my photos last night and will finish going through them tonight.

I'm feeling so-so about the ones I did look at. The good -- my timing was good, and I caught a lot of good moments. The bad -- my equipment wasn't quite good enough to really let me be effective, and I was pretty handicapped by both the reach of my lens and the f/4 hit that I took to get to 280mm with my 1.4x extender. Hopefully I got a couple decent shots though, and will get the chance to do it again.

I worked my first real real sim this morning, a full 4-hour sim with four ascent runs (as opposed to my first real sim, which I did before Christmas, which was only one ascent). George had told me yesterday that he'd be there at 7:00 to help me, but he didn't show, and didn't show. By 7:30, since I was in no way prepared work the sim entirely on my own with no one prodding me and pointing me in the right direction, I began to panic. Finally he came in at 7:40; he'd overslept. Whew!!

Other than that, the sim went ok. The second run was a doozy where we found ourselves in a case for which we apparently have no procedures. Fun.