At GA Tech, it’s Spring Break. Everywhere, it’s Saturday. Yet for some
odd reason, we woke up earlier today than any other morning. Maybe it
was courtesy for the returning photographers that arrived at sunrise,
maybe it was for an existential morning, but more likely it was the
promise of free coffee and Danishes from the photographers that gave us
lethargic college students the motivation to arise from our slumber.
Real cream at last (and by “real” I mean not powdered). Besides,
there’s nothing better than a nap that starts before 0900. At least
that was the plan, but after the excitement of fresh caffination, we
found it somewhat hard to go back to sleep.

Here’s a shout out to all the “non-morning people” out there; it is
truly amazing how much you can get done before noon when your day
starts three hours earlier. So much, that today we felt it necessary
to put off doing real engineering work until after lunch just to make
the day seem shorter. This turned out to be a bad idea since boredom
quickly ensued, and a game of Google-A-Crew-Member quickly came about.
If you’ve never played this game before, Crew 69 highly discourages
it…I am now thoroughly convinced that nothing good can come from the
Internet.

In any case, the afternoon engineering work was wildly successful. I
mean like Rocky fighting the Russian successful. We completely fixed
the GreenHab, and now have a fully functioning trickle-filter (water
constantly flows from one tank to another filled with vegetation to
filter the water)! While this may sound like a small feat, let us
assure you it is truly a triumph. Tulika started an experiment
measuring our comfort level while climbing different inclines on
various soil types, Dan has his Wind Turbine almost ready to go, and
Elisha’s Mars Rover is about to roll out the door. So, overall the day
was very successful.

As such, we must celebrate. In observance of Easter and childhood
memories (and in absence of any real eggs), we painted egg-shaped rocks
in various shades of pastel red, green, and white. A truly bonding
experience. And the night came with another special surprise, as today
is also Holi, the Festival of Colors in India, and Tulika made the
Crew a traditional Indian meal (though she is forcing me to say she had
only limited resources at her disposal). The only thing left to do is
to hide those Easter eggs for tomorrow…I mean Easter rocks…I mean
painted Easter Mars eggs.

Crew 69 out!