TDY.
Saturday, 5 a.m. and my head’s still spinning. Two days into TDY (“temporary duty”) in Denver, and my mental balance has tipped way over into what-the-hell-am-I-doing-land. Okay, I’d spent a […]
Category Archives: pole
Breckenridge
Wait – isn’t that in Colorado? I thought you were going to the South Pole! Well yes, but I’m going by way of a few days of USAP training and […]
Zipped
I guess this is it. Shipping out to Colorado at 10:05 tomorrow morning, so everything that’s going with me has pretty much got to be packed at this point. I […]
Bittersweet
Any time I step away from something I get all teary-eyed. Walking back to my desk from lunch today, I closed my eyes and felt the heat of the sun […]
Crunch time
“You know how time is nature’s way of preventing everything from happening at once? It’s not working.” – Mike Dixon I imagine it’s going to get a lot worse […]
Roadtrip administrivia: blog updates by email!
I post pretty irregularly, and bunch of folks who don’t use reader software tell me that they keep missing posts because they don’t know how often to check back. I […]
“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has yet been devised.” -Apsley Cherry-Girard, “The Worst Journey in The World“, 1921The […]
A Few Handy Links
Okay, I’ve now spent something like three days not obsessing about the Pole. That’s probably enough for now – don’t want to overdo it.Since it seems I’m going to be spending […]
Unexpected Side Effects
One of the unexpected side effects of this whole “Pole” thing is a touch of local celebrity. Closet Antarcticans are coming out and telling me that this is something they’ve always […]
I’ve got a date…
I’m back in OMG-land. Just got my deployment dates. Knowing that I’ll be heading to Antarctica “in late October or early November” leaves it vague enough that I can still […]
David Pablo Cohn 