April 20, 2004
Temperature-51.1 C -60.0 F
Windchill-73.7 C -100.6 F
Wind 17.3 kts Grid 9
Barometer 682.3 mb (10542 ft)
Lunch: Mexican Chicken
Dinner: Some egg and vegetable thing and a protein shake.
Today I received the following message and became quite excited that we were having a six month party:
"This Friday will mark the halfway point for the people who arrived here on the first plane! Come join the celebration of this milestone, no matter how far along you are in your incarceration here. Slushies will hit the road and will be held in conjunction with the party in the Galley.
This will be a BYOB event - the ARO boys will provide the snow so please bring your favorite slushie mixer or beverage of choice. Hor d'oerves will be provided.
If you'd like to help out in the preparation and/or cleanup, please let us know.
About ten minutes later the following arrived:
"You all know I have to say something.....
Please remember the next day is a normal work day, so please don't extend the party late into the evening. We expect everyone to be at work on time and in decent shape the next morning."
Thanks Dad!
We are never done working and just think next summer they might go to 12 hours a day 6 days a week. That will be fun!
In the past week I received two emails asking for my advice for people who are thinking about coming here next year. One was a married couple and the other was an officer who just finished serving in Iraq. The married couple wanted some advice about what it is like to be married, and how they might prepare themselves for their year. The other is thinking about accepting what I think can be the most difficult position on station and how she might prepare herself. I feel there is nothing I could say to these people that would adequately prepare them for the experience. My two years have been very different from one another, with last year being the most difficult. The station management was ill prepared for the personalities they encountered and as a result the end of season psychiatric evaluations indicate the worst year since they started keeping records and some of those years included deaths and medivacs. This year is very different but if I may borrow a line from a movie "life is like a box of chocolates, you just never know what you are going to get." It is so dependent on who is here!!
Oh yea my wife’s Dad is fine and will be coming home from the hospital tomorrow.
Windchill-73.7 C -100.6 F
Wind 17.3 kts Grid 9
Barometer 682.3 mb (10542 ft)
Lunch: Mexican Chicken
Dinner: Some egg and vegetable thing and a protein shake.
Today I received the following message and became quite excited that we were having a six month party:
"This Friday will mark the halfway point for the people who arrived here on the first plane! Come join the celebration of this milestone, no matter how far along you are in your incarceration here. Slushies will hit the road and will be held in conjunction with the party in the Galley.
This will be a BYOB event - the ARO boys will provide the snow so please bring your favorite slushie mixer or beverage of choice. Hor d'oerves will be provided.
If you'd like to help out in the preparation and/or cleanup, please let us know.
About ten minutes later the following arrived:
"You all know I have to say something.....
Please remember the next day is a normal work day, so please don't extend the party late into the evening. We expect everyone to be at work on time and in decent shape the next morning."
Thanks Dad!
We are never done working and just think next summer they might go to 12 hours a day 6 days a week. That will be fun!
In the past week I received two emails asking for my advice for people who are thinking about coming here next year. One was a married couple and the other was an officer who just finished serving in Iraq. The married couple wanted some advice about what it is like to be married, and how they might prepare themselves for their year. The other is thinking about accepting what I think can be the most difficult position on station and how she might prepare herself. I feel there is nothing I could say to these people that would adequately prepare them for the experience. My two years have been very different from one another, with last year being the most difficult. The station management was ill prepared for the personalities they encountered and as a result the end of season psychiatric evaluations indicate the worst year since they started keeping records and some of those years included deaths and medivacs. This year is very different but if I may borrow a line from a movie "life is like a box of chocolates, you just never know what you are going to get." It is so dependent on who is here!!
Oh yea my wife’s Dad is fine and will be coming home from the hospital tomorrow.
posted by Kirk & Jodi Roberts at 9:53 PM
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