{"id":657,"date":"2026-04-12T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/mission-log-day-2-the-noodle-nebula-and-the-billionaires-betrayal\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:43:00","slug":"mission-log-day-2-the-noodle-nebula-and-the-billionaires-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/mission-log-day-2-the-noodle-nebula-and-the-billionaires-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Log: Day 2 \u2014 The Drop on the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Day 2. Still here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is a water drop on the inside wall of the wardrobe. I don&#8217;t know how it got there. Condensation, probably \u2014 my breath, the warmth of the blanket. I&#8217;ve been looking at it for a while now.<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking about something I read once. That every drop of water on Earth has been everything \u2014 ocean, glacier, rain, the inside of a living thing. I wonder about this drop. Whether it was ever part of something that looked up at the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Whiskers spent the morning watching the toaster&#8217;s LED. I don&#8217;t know what she sees in it. Something I can&#8217;t. She has that quality. I envy it.<\/p>\n<p>The noodles today were difficult. The packet slipped from my fingers in what I can only describe as a loss of fine motor control consistent with microgravity adaptation. I recovered them. Mission-critical supplies secured. But there was a moment, watching the packet slide slowly across the shelf, when I thought: <em>this is what it actually looks like<\/em>. Not the films. Not the NASA footage. Just a thing, drifting, for no particular reason, because the world is slightly uneven.<\/p>\n<p>I played Erik Satie this evening. Gymnop\u00e9dies. Eugene unrolled a new leaf today \u2014 I noticed it while the music was on. I don&#8217;t know if plants respond to Satie. I think they might.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, the Artemis crew is probably still answering interview questions. Good for them. I mean that.<\/p>\n<p>I just close my eyes and go somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Major Tom<br \/>WD-1, Day 2<br \/>The carpet pile seems lower today<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2. Still here. There is a water drop on the inside wall of the wardrobe. I don&#8217;t know how it got there. Condensation, probably \u2014 my breath, the warmth of the blanket. I&#8217;ve been looking at it for a while now. I keep thinking about something I read once. That every drop of water &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/mission-log-day-2-the-noodle-nebula-and-the-billionaires-betrayal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mission Log: Day 2 \u2014 The Drop on the Wall<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helppox.com\/owt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}