Midwinter and midwinter storms!
Well, believe it or not, there's been a LOT going on here! We celebrated our midwinter here and the 50th winter over!
It was quite a lovely evening with a formal, or as formal as you can get, dinner followed by dancing and then live music at our Coffee House. Heather was looking SMASHING!
And I wasn't looking too bad...
That's me and some of my homies. From left, Ben, me, Jason, Ron and Andrew.
But of course, there's always a picture of Heather and me...
That was a great evening and one of those points you mark your memories of this place with.
Another marking point is the storms we have here! Our friend Christine held a pool to see who could predict as close to the date our first "Condition 1" storm! These are the worst of the worst and are times when the station pretty much closes down and you stay home and ride it out. Last year the winds hit 160+ MPH in our worst storm and a few days ago we peaked at 120 MPH! Last night into this morning we had long sustained winds and woke up to a "stay home" message on our pagers. Well, that didn't last but an hour or so and we got the message that the winds had died and it was time to return to work. We all wandered back to our workcenters to shovel out. Here are a few photos of what I had to look forward to outside of my building...
We're still waiting on word about the Port Hueneme jobs and worry a bit that the company may take the good idea they had and tweak it into something... ackward (and I'm being nice when I use that word!). So, holding pattern here for the IRS case, our New Zealand residency application and the Port Hueneme project! I'll keep you posted!
So that's us... halfway through winter now and it's all downhill to sunshine! First flight of winfly is scheduled for August 20th!
It was quite a lovely evening with a formal, or as formal as you can get, dinner followed by dancing and then live music at our Coffee House. Heather was looking SMASHING!
And I wasn't looking too bad...
That's me and some of my homies. From left, Ben, me, Jason, Ron and Andrew.
But of course, there's always a picture of Heather and me...
That was a great evening and one of those points you mark your memories of this place with.
Another marking point is the storms we have here! Our friend Christine held a pool to see who could predict as close to the date our first "Condition 1" storm! These are the worst of the worst and are times when the station pretty much closes down and you stay home and ride it out. Last year the winds hit 160+ MPH in our worst storm and a few days ago we peaked at 120 MPH! Last night into this morning we had long sustained winds and woke up to a "stay home" message on our pagers. Well, that didn't last but an hour or so and we got the message that the winds had died and it was time to return to work. We all wandered back to our workcenters to shovel out. Here are a few photos of what I had to look forward to outside of my building...
We're still waiting on word about the Port Hueneme jobs and worry a bit that the company may take the good idea they had and tweak it into something... ackward (and I'm being nice when I use that word!). So, holding pattern here for the IRS case, our New Zealand residency application and the Port Hueneme project! I'll keep you posted!
So that's us... halfway through winter now and it's all downhill to sunshine! First flight of winfly is scheduled for August 20th!
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