1 … 2 … 3 … Sleep

Objectives:  start on color version of painting

Accomplishments:  none

Physiology:  Everyone has influenza, except me.

Provisions:  I’m preparing sausage and rice jambalaya tonight.

Music:  KTBG (90.9 mHz)

  Humans possess a remarkable ability to function without sleep.  A normal human requires eight to nine Earth hours of sleep to operate consciously for the next 15-16 hours.  But humans push that requirement a lot.  I tested it this weekend when, in another weekend filled with flu-bitten workers, my boss asked me to produce our station’s Sunday morning newscast.  I slept one hour Saturday afternoon, then three hours after returning home Sunday morning before going to bed at the normal time.  My species must recharge in a similar way.  We even dream the same way you do.

Slammed

Objectives:  none

Accomplishments:  Completed political story for FOX network

Aggravations:  typing with laptop computer

Escape velocity is hard to realize in such cold weather.  The Stratus doesn’t move so freely with frozen muck on the undercarriage.

It is truly amazing how journalists can operate for weeks without finding a good story, then we get slammed with several in the same day.  I compare it to long distance space travel.  You spend copious amounts of time in black emptiness, then one day, radiation from a supernova melts your shorts.  Tuesday was one of those days, though I kept my threads intact.  Missouri’s governor announced he won’t seek a second term (the way it occurred was strange); a famous actor died; a polarizing member of Kansas City’s parks board resigned (her letter started “Enough already!”); and a judge recommended an officer fired in a traffic stop that resulted in a miscarriage be reinstated.  We really need to spread these stories out.

Hello, cruel world!

Escape velocity not realized.  Furthermore, my interstellar travel license requires me to maintain a ship log.  I received the message today, which at light speed meant it was sent quite some time ago.  I have 31 sols of catching up to do.

Provisions:  Rice; chicken cooked in Italian dressing; spoonful of oleo; crickets; ice cream

Music:  KROQ HD2 internet feed

Accomplishments:  none

Today the major players at work bestowed praise upon us at the annual year-end meeting.  We won awards.  We help the community.  We’re still ranked fourth in most time slots.  The parent owner of the station is also in the process of selling us to the highest bidder.  My home planet refused to provide the necessary sundries.  A female co-worker prevented embarrassment by alerting me to the untucked pocket on the back of my pants.  I will never become accustomed to Earthly threads and fabrics.