From: "F"
To: "Parents"
Subj: Up up and away
Date Posted: 25.07.2010
Hi Mom, Dad,
Writing to let you know my new address, and that we made it up with out any problems. Got yelled at by ground control, but I don't think they scrambled anyone from Greenwood.
I'm currently hanging somewhere around L5, Dad can explain that to you Mom. Ari' and I are planning to head to Port Luna in the next couple of days. We're thinking of registering the ship there , mostly 'cause she likes their flag. We've also got a line on a hauling job which should let me start to rebuild my finances, such as they are.
[ What's this 'we' stuff monkey boy. I did all the work finding the job while he was outside painting a big maple leaf on the tail. He's already taking me for granted, no wonder he's still single. ]
To assuage Mom's fears, yes I'm eating well. I lived on my own for the better part of a decade you know, and never came down with scurvy or anything then. Space isn't changing anything about that.
[ It's just a slightly longer walk to the grocery store. ]
I've had my first spacewalk, safely tethered. Free-fall feels really weird, and I seem to get space sick as easily as I've gotten sea sick on Earth. But hopefully some practice and a little Gravol will help with that.
[ I think I'm happy I don't have any manipulators yet. He can't ask me to help clean the suit. ]
I don't know what else to say right now, so I'm going to send this and go float outside and watch the Earth go by. TTYS.
F
[ Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on him. - Aristotle ]
--
A normally dressed person just couldn't get away with saying things like "I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the expiration date on the milk carton of villainy!" I mean, without the cape, the suit and the hat -- it just doesn't work. - Tony Smith, on superhero dialogue
To: "Parents"
Subj: Up up and away
Date Posted: 25.07.2010
Hi Mom, Dad,
Writing to let you know my new address, and that we made it up with out any problems. Got yelled at by ground control, but I don't think they scrambled anyone from Greenwood.
I'm currently hanging somewhere around L5, Dad can explain that to you Mom. Ari' and I are planning to head to Port Luna in the next couple of days. We're thinking of registering the ship there , mostly 'cause she likes their flag. We've also got a line on a hauling job which should let me start to rebuild my finances, such as they are.
[ What's this 'we' stuff monkey boy. I did all the work finding the job while he was outside painting a big maple leaf on the tail. He's already taking me for granted, no wonder he's still single. ]
To assuage Mom's fears, yes I'm eating well. I lived on my own for the better part of a decade you know, and never came down with scurvy or anything then. Space isn't changing anything about that.
[ It's just a slightly longer walk to the grocery store. ]
I've had my first spacewalk, safely tethered. Free-fall feels really weird, and I seem to get space sick as easily as I've gotten sea sick on Earth. But hopefully some practice and a little Gravol will help with that.
[ I think I'm happy I don't have any manipulators yet. He can't ask me to help clean the suit. ]
I don't know what else to say right now, so I'm going to send this and go float outside and watch the Earth go by. TTYS.
F
[ Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on him. - Aristotle ]
--
A normally dressed person just couldn't get away with saying things like "I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the expiration date on the milk carton of villainy!" I mean, without the cape, the suit and the hat -- it just doesn't work. - Tony Smith, on superhero dialogue