I have had my hands full from day one. First, we come into Mars' atmosphere at a steeper than planned entry. Luckily the Commander and pilot did not explain this to the crew. The heat build up ruined some of our equipment. The Heat Exchangers were damaged and from the moment we entered our new Cave... Because that is what it is! Now I know what a caveman felt like! The temperatures started to go up. No one noticed at first. It is a pretty big Cave, It wasn't until people started sweating like it was the middle of a Florida Summer that the medical director and commander came to me and asked, what the hell is going ON? So I told them that my crew was racing to fix the heat exchangers but in the mean time it would get hotter because we needed electricity. They both groaned. They knew I was talking about the Mini Nuke Plant. Look, I said. We either have electricity or we die. And of course the medical director said, Yeah, and if we have more heat we die! Any how two days of 100 degree heat later and the heat exchangers were in place and the electricity was on. Did I get a thank you? No. But the relief as temperatures stabilized around 70 degrees seemed to make everybody happy. So I just went with the flow."
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