Antarctica 2024/2025

 Merry Christmas everyone! I am writting this on Christmas day here in Antarctica, and while it may be summer, there is still cold temps and a little snow on the ground. There have been a handful of Christmas parties around base the last few days, as everyone was given both 24th and 25th off to celebrate, and on Christmas day the base held it's annual softball tournament. Teams were generally made up from individual departments, and at the time of writting of this, they were down to the last two games of the day. I was on the utilities team and we were unfortunately beaten in the first round by the defending champs, the fire department. It was still a fun game even if we ended up losing. The rules are changed slightly to accommodate so many games in a single day, like games are only six innings and there is an hour time limit per game. Needless to say, with that short of a playing time, most games don't even make it to six innings.  Outside of the holidays, everything else is ...

Hello everyone. I'll start off by apologizing for the delay in any updates since I know there are a few of you out there who have been wondering what I've been up to over the last month. Time is flying by, and I didn't even realize how long it had been since my last post. While I've been down here, I have also been trying to keep a personal journal, and I keep getting surprised by how the time between entries is slowly increasing as well. I'm not sure why time seems to be moving by so fast, the day to day is nothing extraordinary. Work is the constant to my whole schedule, and when your working from 7:30am to 5:30pm, fitting in meals, and then making sure to get enough sleep to avoid burn out, it doesn't leave a lot of time for much else, but that doesn't mean it's all work and no play. No dull boys here.  I guess the first thing to cover is that Thanksgiving was celebrated, turkey and stuffing was eaten, and parties were had. Due to our light employment...