Cool! We had a barbeque at work this evening in honour of our guest, who's an astronaut!!!

Seriously -- he went up in the shuttle!!!

HOW COOL IS THAT???!?!??!!????!???!?

Aw wow.....

Must suppress incoherent babbling... He's a very nice, laid-back guy who's now 67, and his major line of work is the same as mine, but he got to go into space to man a few experiments on Spacelab-2, on the Challenger shuttle (yeah, that one, but not that flight obviously).

He said that the further back in time that the 8-day experience receeds, the more unlikely it seems that he actually did it.

As Chris said, "I've touched him [ed.: shaken his hand :) ], and he's touched space!!!". That is quite something.

And he likes wine, which makes him a king amongst men, frankly.