Oct 18th – Day 13 of “The Commute”

“When I awoke today, suddenly nothing happened” – Colin Hay

I feel ya, Colin. Same here.

I did get awoken by some construction equipment being delivered at 6 am… Nice beeping of a couple cherry-pickers moving around outside.

Beautiful day today. Sunny / partly cloudy and clear- I can see the mountains quite well. Snow-capped and majestic. Just waiting for someone to go adventure. Alas, that’s not me.

However it is day 7 of the 14 days that NZ govt requires us to be quarantined! Which means I’m half-way there!! Well, half-way to moving to a new hotel while we wait for our ice flight. We’ll still be quarantined (USAP mandated) so hopefully the weather in MCM will hold up and we’ll get there on-time. ha. ha. ha. can’t you read the sarcasm.

On the flip-side, I have been getting some decent work done and the days have been flying by. Besides my nice stand-up desk (which I use almost exclusively for staring out the window and NOT working), I’ve got this great 2nd monitor for extra productivity!

And I tried to make a timelapse of myself working out, but the frame rate was low enough that it just looks like I’m doing nothing :’D . Like there’s a sequence where I’m doing “box jumps” on my bed and it just looks like I’m standing still but you can see the sheets have moved from frame-to-frame. (don’t mind my bloated tummy… to much dairy these past few days, but I need the calories)

It’s a grey day in McMurdo, and a balmy 5F (-9F windchill)…

and looks lovely at Pole , a cool -72F (-100F windchill).

Looking forward to getting out and running around. At least I won’t be sun burnt going down this year!