Lunch... Shuttle

Lunch Sunday. I went to a mom and pop restaurant that you had to walk through the next door grocery store to get in to . It was an adventure just to find it and another struggle to gather enough courage to try it. It’s a little clean, simple little restaurant, painted white with no deco at all. Completed with metal chairs and shaky tables. Nothing much aesthetically to sing about, but the food, well, that’s another story. The restaurant served steamy Indian buffet, featuring curry mackerel, Chicken Masala, Spicy Stew Lamb, … emmmmh! They are great and it’s only $5.99 per person!! The friends that I went with agreed with me that it’s one of the best kept secret in H-Town.


Emmm… I am off the topic. This blog is actually about one of the guys who went to the restaurant on Sunday. You see, he spoiled our wonderful lunch by ranting about how boring and unrewarding his job was.

Well, let me explain his “work” and you can be the judge. Last Friday, his director requested him to do an analysis on the frequency interference probability for the TACAN system, if the Space Shuttle were to re-enter and land from the Southern Hemisphere.

You see prior to the lost of Columbia. The Space Shuttles always fly back from the North Hemisphere, due to the abundant of TACAN stations at different bases. But after Columbia broken up in the sky, the route will now be shifted to the South Hemisphere, so if there was another accident, the shuttle will land in the ocean, instead of heavily populated cities.

So this guy is actually complaining about his “job” of manipulating the most advance RC Flying Toy in the world... while writing history at the same time... go figures.