PrettyTiny Film Company Pic-A-Week **2026**! (#16, Apr. 18)

[Alliecat]

Tax deadline is the 30th.  For no good reason, certain entities are allowed to not send their tax slips till the end of March.
The burn is done, a week ago Thursday, and already nice little grass is growing.  Another scary job done.  "Night burns" come from [censored] "neighbours" slash-&-burning and leaving giant piles of trees burning unattended.  I'm sealed into my bunker with the back door taped shut again to try to keep the smoke out.  This effing place.

... at 25 hours in to the 9 day mission, that final fuel burn determines where and when the capsule will splash down in the ocean eight days later a quarter of a million miles away. And they were precise to the second.

Orbital mechanics are pretty amazing.  The "correction burns", not all of which they did, I think, because at least one wasn't necessary, were like 8 seconds of "fine tuning" and just little tweaks ... the entry trajectory being set by the TLI on day 2 is indeed mindboggling math.  They were, I think, actually 20 seconds late from the predicted splashdown!  Must've been a headwind??    I'm glad losing the row of 7's on their central-time 7:07:07 splashdown didn't prove unlucky!
I loved the sense of fun they brought to the mission, and how the social media dept. joined in, letting Rise "take over" their page for a day, and the fact that Reid snuck Rise off the capsule with them.
I have quite a bit of video to catch up on -- still haven't seen the whole press conference after they landed.

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Another overdue late still-this-week-till-I-go-to-bed pic-a-week.... sighh
I can not believe another week evaporated.  This one was bogged town with income tax (in fits & starts) & a stinker of an article on municipal election candidates for which I have to track down & interview 17 people.  Blaahhh.
But there must always be time for dolly therapy.