Hey folks, sorry to disappear like that. It's been a difficult week for me. Nothing dire, but I've been having a spate of detector shutdowns which have kept me busy reloading the detector code and ramping the high voltage back up. Since the detector processors are about as intelligent as sponges, I have to do all the heavy lifting for them, and when the detector processors need to be rebooted, you can guess who gets stuck doing all the work. Heck, I keep a complete code image of the detector code in my memory.

Just to be clear, I'm talking about the far ultraviolet detectors that register and record the spectra I take. Not my "eyes," aka Fine Error Sensors, which are my guiding cameras. The FES's are a lot better when it comes to robustness, and while they do sometimes get wonky, I can reboot either one of them in under 60 seconds. So I don't stay "blind in that eye" for very long.

Also, when I haven't been frantically working to get a detector back into operation, I've been busy consoling my dear GOES-10. She had a loss in her family last week that has all of the GOES satellites pretty bummed right now. So I've been spending most of my free time - such as it's been - communicating with her. I imagine that's going to keep me occupied for a while to come. They're dealing with a lot of grief.