Looking at tide charts, weather reports and google earth. Changing hooks, doing laundry, worrying about running out of gas money, worrying about ferry delays. In other words, preparing for MV. Whatever the effect of the weather, from the weak reports from there things can't really go THAT far downhill. It's ok if I put everything off until the last minute though, cuz then I can pull an all nighter getting packed and claim I did it on purpose to get myself used to sleeping in the daytime again.
Astronaut training indeed.....