A January update and....who...me?

Greetings once again.

Things are beginning to change around here once again, for me personally now I'm on the day shift, which means that it may be more difficult to get a hold of you to tell you of my tales. Also on the winds of change front, I received word on my tentative departure date, so the end is closer than I think.

Another note, since our supervisor was going to be at McMurdo station for a week for R&R before he begins his winter shift, he dubbed me to be in charge of the meteorology office while he was away. Personally, I don't think much will change with my job. I might be the focus of attention more, but that always seems to happen with no matter which job I work. I'm certain that things will go smooth for the next six days and I won't crash the Met department into a C-130.

That's the major updates that I have for now. The picture is of a Kelvin-Helmholtz wave cloud, or at least before it began to dissapate. These clouds are somewhat rare to capture, but it's a little more special to see them in this part of the world.

Take care until next time.

One year down, another to go.

Hello again and Happy New Year,

I'm not too much of a guy that recaps everything that happened over the course of a year, but 2008 definitely has been one worth noting.

The notable highlights were that I finished up my Master's degree after 3 years of work. I also headed back home to Colorado to accept some contract jobs, one at Sun Microsystems for a couple of months and the other from Raytheon to do work in Antarctica.

Other times when I have been by myself, I tend to think about how can I improve myself better and how to do it by actions instead of by mere words. This maybe an ongoing theme as I discover some more things about myself about what I'm capable of doing as well as respecting and making the people around me feel better about themselves.

There is also uncertainty as well, since at times I always find myself in the same trap of worrying about things that are non-essential and not caring enough about my short and long term goals in which I need to succeed. As long as my brain doesn't become toast in the next month and a half, I should have a better idea what do I need to get things done, so I would have a better 2009 for myself and the people around me.

Also, the picture above is of a set of sun globes. We use these at the Pole to measure how much sunlight we received during the day by reading the burn marks on the cards. Also, the smell of burnt sun cards drives the ladies wild....

Late.