I am not a Blog person. I would also go as far to say that the idea of sharing my thoughts and personal feelings on the web for all to peruse as kind of horrific, similar in fact I imagine, to the pleasure derived from gargling one’s own vomit.
However, after receiving certain pressures from a variety of sources to set up a central one-stop presence on the web where I can share stories, latest happenings & photo’s of my activities, I slowly came around to the fact, and reluctantly agreed that a Blog did fit the criteria and nicely fulfill the purpose of this task. And to be honest now I’ve started, it’s actually quite painless -- even enjoyable. I am hoping the following posts will give you an insight into Antarctica and the life that occurs within Britain’s largest logistic and scientific research base.
So to begin I would like to meditate over the following: It is an amazing truth that life takes on quite radical changes in direction, through either the accumulation of many small decisions taken in our everyday life, through to the more conscious and deliberate large scale changes we deliberately employ.
However, after receiving certain pressures from a variety of sources to set up a central one-stop presence on the web where I can share stories, latest happenings & photo’s of my activities, I slowly came around to the fact, and reluctantly agreed that a Blog did fit the criteria and nicely fulfill the purpose of this task. And to be honest now I’ve started, it’s actually quite painless -- even enjoyable. I am hoping the following posts will give you an insight into Antarctica and the life that occurs within Britain’s largest logistic and scientific research base.
So to begin I would like to meditate over the following: It is an amazing truth that life takes on quite radical changes in direction, through either the accumulation of many small decisions taken in our everyday life, through to the more conscious and deliberate large scale changes we deliberately employ.
The affect they have on our future is often unclear until sometime after the event. To personalize this hypothesis, I would never have thought it possible a year ago while celebrating New Years Eve 2006, in my comfortable brown stone Upper West Side apartment in New York City that exactly one year hence the 2007 New Years celebration would be conducted in a 26' by 18' hut on a glacier on a small island just off the Antarctica mainland. 
I am still a little confused how the events of 2006 led me from New York to Antarctica. But I have decided not to over analyze it and just accept the fact that life is odd. I like odd.
5 comments:
Nice to see that you're still alive and well! I'm excited to read all of your innermost thoughts and feelings.
Yes, you do like odd, don't you?
You seem much more content than you did in your windowless office in new york. I'm so glad to see you truly happy again. Can you bring me back a penguin?
Mike, old chap - after scouring the globe, I've finally found out where you're hiding! (I did have some help)
What a 'cool' excursion you've chosen. I will try to keep abreast of your exploits.
Jeff Brown
So I went skiing in VT last weekend and was freezing at the top of a long lift....and guess who popped into my head while staring at all of the fresh powder around me? My good old chum, mitch, that's who! I miss you!
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