Quote of the Season!

Saturday night the residents of the South Pole Station were treated to yet another live music show – featuring some local bands . While most people were totally distracted, Todd burst onto the scene and declared “You’ve gotta see this!”…dressed in a T-shirt and jeans, I and many other folks followed Todd out to the nearby observation deck to see this:

It is indeed sunlight….WOW…I’ve always been a fan of sunrise, though I’ve never gone outdoors in a T-shirt in minus cold as hell at 9:00 PM to look at one. I’ve also never been quite so excited to see one – epic! It’ll take another month before the sun is fully above the horizon at which point I’ll promptly curse its everpresence – but right now it’s really exciting – a sign of hope! oh…I almost forgot….the quote that went along with this observance. Owing to the frigid temps and lack of cold weather gear – Todd said “Now that was worth losing a nipple over!” and, indeed it was.

In other atmospheric news I woke the other day with a pounding headache and couldn’t figure out what might be causing it – I hadn’t been drinking and I was very well hydrated so what could it possibly be? Here’s a screen cap that I got from our “weather channel” – the barometric pressure has dropped so far that the physiological altitude is a full 2000+ feet higher than the physical altitude – that would explain the headache.