What have I been up to the past couple weeks? Mainly doing a lot of work and hanging out with Jerod and Spring and the crew.
The other day I had sea-ice safety training. The first half of the day is in the classroom and the secondhalf is supposed to be out in the field. It was a frigid day (-50F windchill), but we loaded up into the Hagglund and headed out to the sea ice to test cracks. However, when we got onto the sea ice, visibility dropped down to zero, so we turned around and will complete the class at a later day.
Yesterday the Crary staff got to tour the JSOC (Joint spacecraft operations center) building which is run by NASA. It was kind of a privilege for us to take the tour. First we took a tour of their building where they showed us all their big computers where they track and control all their satellites and then we went up on the hill above McMurdo to the "golfball" where a giant antennae is housed and got to tour it and see hot it tracks back and forth with the satellites to get the information from the different satellites. Pretty cool stuff.
Today I called ING about setting up a 401k. The lady on the other end was in Florida and had a very southern accent and she was just so stunned and so excited to be talking with someone in Antarctica. She couldn't wait to go home and tell all her friends and family that she spoke with someone in Antarctica. She told me she would send some of that Florida heat and humidity through the phone. My favorite line of hers today. "When would be the best time to call you. It is currently 6pm here right now. Is this normally a good time?" "Well ma'am, actually it's Satruday and 10am here" "I'm sorry Mr. Guy, I don't understand you. You said it's Saturday where you are at? How can that be?"
Last night Jerod and I suited up and took a night walk up to castle rock. It was pretty cold (below 0 and maybe -20F with windchill), but not too bad. It was definitely cool to do this hike up on the snowfields in the dark. It's not completely completely dark anymore. During our hike there was a tiny bit of twilight out on the horizon. So it won't be long until there is no more darkness or stars. So we wanted to get out and experience that quietness, darkness, and solitude before it is gone. Always fun to go on hikes with Jerod.
Tonight is a tour of rooms. It's a show off your dorm room and serve a drink kind of thing. You are just supposed to grab a cup and go on the tour. Jerod and I decided we wanted to decorate our room for the occasion, so we are going with a mtn ski chalet theme. We have skis and snowshoes and ice skates around our room and we cut out tons of paper snowflakes to hang. We will be serving spiced mulled wine to go with the decor and feeling
The other day I had sea-ice safety training. The first half of the day is in the classroom and the secondhalf is supposed to be out in the field. It was a frigid day (-50F windchill), but we loaded up into the Hagglund and headed out to the sea ice to test cracks. However, when we got onto the sea ice, visibility dropped down to zero, so we turned around and will complete the class at a later day.
Yesterday the Crary staff got to tour the JSOC (Joint spacecraft operations center) building which is run by NASA. It was kind of a privilege for us to take the tour. First we took a tour of their building where they showed us all their big computers where they track and control all their satellites and then we went up on the hill above McMurdo to the "golfball" where a giant antennae is housed and got to tour it and see hot it tracks back and forth with the satellites to get the information from the different satellites. Pretty cool stuff.
Today I called ING about setting up a 401k. The lady on the other end was in Florida and had a very southern accent and she was just so stunned and so excited to be talking with someone in Antarctica. She couldn't wait to go home and tell all her friends and family that she spoke with someone in Antarctica. She told me she would send some of that Florida heat and humidity through the phone. My favorite line of hers today. "When would be the best time to call you. It is currently 6pm here right now. Is this normally a good time?" "Well ma'am, actually it's Satruday and 10am here" "I'm sorry Mr. Guy, I don't understand you. You said it's Saturday where you are at? How can that be?"
Last night Jerod and I suited up and took a night walk up to castle rock. It was pretty cold (below 0 and maybe -20F with windchill), but not too bad. It was definitely cool to do this hike up on the snowfields in the dark. It's not completely completely dark anymore. During our hike there was a tiny bit of twilight out on the horizon. So it won't be long until there is no more darkness or stars. So we wanted to get out and experience that quietness, darkness, and solitude before it is gone. Always fun to go on hikes with Jerod.
Tonight is a tour of rooms. It's a show off your dorm room and serve a drink kind of thing. You are just supposed to grab a cup and go on the tour. Jerod and I decided we wanted to decorate our room for the occasion, so we are going with a mtn ski chalet theme. We have skis and snowshoes and ice skates around our room and we cut out tons of paper snowflakes to hang. We will be serving spiced mulled wine to go with the decor and feeling
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