dude, i just made record time, as in land speed jutqoreness thereof, up to mammoth.  rolled out of SD at 00:39, got in to MM at 06:07.  394 miles in 5 1/2 hours with a stop halfway.  pretty good, considering 2/3 of the trip is not on the interstate.  that, and it sure is nice to get through LA at 2 in the morning...

 

so here's a great quote from the brief i gave yesterday - the one that held me up from leaving SD.  we're discussing risk levels and how we would rate the project that i'm managing.

 

CAPT Pope : so this is a pretty low risk project, right?

cap'n hq : well, yes, but i can't be entirely sure we'll get the desired results until we actually test the system over-the-air.

CAPT : but we've got the OEM designing the enhancement, so we shouldn't have the typical integration issues

cap'n : that's absolutely true - they know the system better than anyone else

CAPT : so everything should work then?

cap'n : Yep, everything should work perfectly fine - it's just the unknowns that always trip you up...

 

that was my Yogi Berra moment for the day.  Everyone just dropped their jaws and shook their heads.  It was awesome.