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Sol 79
Woke up at dawn,
Checked oxygen & co2 levels,
Eat breakfast pack and drinked a cup of water,
Brushed teeth and shaved with electric razor,
Does lovely routine(bathroom),
Goes outside and collects solar cells,
Gets back rover and listens to seventies music,
Starts driving,
Does quick EVA to swap cables,
When second battery run out he stops and pops out solar panels,
Sits around for 12 hrs doing nothing; sometimes he thinks,
Then sleeps, -
Sol 80
Hes about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder,
Has a boring drive,
Considers making a compass,
Navigates by Phobos,
Found a 5 kilometer crater to navigate by,
Camped near it to recharge solar panels,
Sits around for 12 hrs with nothing to do, -
Sol 81
Hes 22 kilometers from Pathfinder,
Sets up solar panels,
Goes for a walk, -
Sol 82
Finds Pathfinder,
Does quick & careful digging,
Has to remove center panel, dig & cut off the balloons filled with sand,
Takes Sojourner & the lander,
Makes a rope out of Hab material,
drags heavy panel to the rover,
Calls it a day & rests -
Sol 83
Mark builds a ramp out of rocks & sand,
Then drags Lander onto the roof of rover,
Makes sure it is firmly secure,
Stacks solars in one big pile on top,
Then has to take down ramp so it doesn't damage the rover when driving away -
Sol 90
Marks 7 days closer to the Hab,
At every stop he takes soil and rock samples -
Sol 92
Mark gets 2 signals from the Hab beacon,
Then watches The Six Million Dollar Man -
Sol 93
Finds the Habs signal -
Sol 94
Made it to the Hab,
First thing he does is wave his hands wildly while running in a circle,
He fires up the oxygenator & atmospheric regulator,
Checks air levels & crops,
Adds his manure to the pile,
Dumps box of pee into water reclaimer,
Does full system checks,
Lounges around,
Then puts solar panels back where they belong,
Takes Lander off of rover,
Gets rid of RTG,
Then sleeps -
Sol 95
Works on Sojourner,
Cleans dusty solar panels,
Then starts working on Lander, -
Sol 96
Gives Lander and Sojourne more time so they can function -
Sol 97
Find out Lander and Sojourner work,
Sits on the ground & cries that he is not alone anymore,
Finds out he has communication,
Has to make cards in order to communicate,
Answers questions from Earth -
Sol 98
Has to watch camera when it spells things out,
Watch a pair of numbers then look in up in a ASCII cheatsheet,
Scrapes them into the dirt so he remembers,
Gets up hours early,
Has breakfast,
Does unnecessary checks on equipment,
Reads Poirot,
Has to translate messages he receives,
Tries to use laptop outside of hab to write down the messages but the screens go black,
Uses camera to save the messages