They're coming!

Lawrence M. Gould ship tracker

We have visitors coming! After a week or two of cruising through the Drake, our summer crew should be arriving sometime this afternoon. These will be the first new faces any of the 16 of us have seen since early July. Along with them come resupplies of beer, Fritos, Oreos, freshies, and of course a nice big boat to take us home. We have one week to resupply, turnover with our successors, and get out. It's going to be a quick one. Now's a good time to take a deep breath during the calm before the storm.

UPDATE:

Can you see the rabbit?

Some things you just don't hear about until someone makes an offhand remark. It turns out, there's a rabbit on the moon. Most of us in the northern hemisphere like to talk about the Man in the Moon, but down here it's a rabbit.

Can you see it?

Liger

Some days are good. Some days are bad. Some days you just have to play bass guitar in a liger suit. That's all there is to it. Last Friday was one of those days. The tail end of a week of artful expression was a performance of Palmer Station's very own "Freezing Band", now touring Anvers Island. Happy hour this week was a mean cider made by myself and the drummer, along with a 1-hour set of everyone's favorites - "The Dive Locker Blues", "Give me that old fashioned Morphine", and of course "Mahna Mahna" (the Muppets song).

The liger suit has a history of it's own. Unbeknownst to me when I got here, all former IT staff at Palmer have worn the liger suit at one point in time. It's survived endless cocktail parties, pier jumps, and now a performance as bass guitarist.

I suppose my work here is now done.