Up a little early this morning. Ian (next partition over in in J7-13) usually gets up a bit before I do, but he hit his “snooze” a couple of times, […]

Over lunch yesterday, Michelle let on that she’s writing a novel – her ninth. She’s a long-time participant in National Novel-Writing Month (which happens to be November); in fact, she’s […]

It’s Dr. Science time! Weather’s turned fabulous – sunny, with zero wind (albeit still -42C), but with the sun and no wind, I’ve been leaving Big Red unzipped, or sometimes […]

Hi all, It’s my day off (again), so it’s time for round two of “Questions for Pablo at the Pole“! I’ll tackle a couple of the easy ones first: ==========================================“What […]

You might be surprised to discover that the South Pole has a Denver area code. Yesterday morning, just at the end of our window of satellite coverage, my phone rang, […]

Storm’s finally lifted. Sort of. On the way in this morning, snow was still blowing like crazy, but the the sun was cutting through to make shadows, and by noon, […]

I’ve been spending a lot of time writing about the outdoors, haven’t I? I don’t spend much time there – much less than most people here. Mostly I drive a […]

I do promise to start to post some more photos of the station itself, really. I’ve been taping video too, trying to get the hang of the new medium. Very […]