Am I NASA buff? Not Quite...

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I wouldn't consider myself a NASA buff, but it is clearly an obsession of mine. (I know my friends might will say differently.)

I find myself in situations where people will ask me seemingly random questions about the space shuttle or the space station and I can usually throw out a rough answer without having to look anything up. That doesn't take skill, that just requires that you have been paying attention.

At times throughout the day/week I find myself watching NASA TV. This usually entails me staring at a near-static image of the space station floating in space or a framed image of communicators in Houston sitting at their stations. Boring? Sure, but when something happens I get all giddy inside. This is wrong. I know this. I have a problem. I have embraced it and ran with it. But I don't let it get carried away. Well... not too often.

I do live in the U.S. county with the most astronauts (per capita, mind you), so I'm surrounded by a community used to sending their locals into space. (It's on our welcome signs. Take that surrounding counties!) Maybe it's something in the water.

Working for NASA has always been a dream of mine. At one time I wanted to be an astronaut. I had plans set to fast track myself into orbit. That's when life stepped in and rerouted my tracks. Was I disappointed? Sure, but that doesn't mean that someday I won't be somehow involved with sending people into space. I'll always keep he dream alive.

I know there are more knowledgeable NASA geeks out there, but I do know that I'm definitely one of the biggest cheerleaders around these parts.

Be seeing you.