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Category Archives: pole
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Much better, thanks.
I got a lot of soothing reassurances after that last post (thanks!) and yes, today was much better. Got to meet a lot of the rest of the Pole team […]
Enroute: LAX
Made it to LAX an hour or so late – delayed, ironically, by an arctic storm sweeping down over western Colorado. Team is now wandering the terminal in search of […]
Tuesday?
The flight. About as uneventful a being blasted across the globe for a day and a half could be. Noticed, as we touched down Wednesday afternoon, that we missed out […]