Hurry up and wait...

[jay]

Waiting in Resolute for the weather, again, before we can make our final hop to Devon Island. Conditions have worsened, in that the high we had yesterday is weakening and we're getting overcast and drizzle from the NE.

In California, I hardly notice weather forecasts... here, they're vitally important. Three years of work hinges in some sense on having sufficiently good weather in these two weeks. Still, last year we were stuck here for 3 days, and still managed OK.

Theoretically, we are supposed to depart after lunch around 1:30-2pm, but I doubt it. Weather at HMP is further to the east and hence worse than here.

Wandering around Resolute... very quiet Sunday morning. Walked by the tiny Anglican church, where services are held only in Inuktituk (I attended, a few years ago). the Co-op store is closed, so I can't do postcards...

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[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

(nod nod)

There is a reason I didn't ask for lunch with you *before* Wednesday. I wanted to be reasonably sure that you'd have actually returned.

I find it fascinating how much the practical realities of life-- and therefore cultural norms-- are different from place to place.

I also marvel at an Anglican service in Inuktituk, and the Jesus message that is able to move from desert-dweller to urban living to the arctic. About what parts of being human just *are* the same, despite the differences.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Probably wise WRT delays... and agreed about there being similar as well as different rhythms here.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

*hugs* and wishes you improved weather and a safe crossing!

Maybe you'll have time to find the Resolute geocache... ;-) Most appropriately, it's called Hurry Up and Wait!! GCK4TW

"Very easy cache to find once you actually get there. Allows all geocachers something to do when there waiting for a flight out!" Indeed...

*grins*

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(grins) title here is from the cache, actually... found it before lunch. :)

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

*grin* I ought to have clued in when your post title and the cache title were one and the same. Yay on finding it!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

It's posted now, along with a photo. :) It was an easy find... last year, I'd forgotten to switch back to WGS84 from NAD27, so had been off by a couple of hundred meters. This year, it was easy! Plus I had a much better notion of likely hiding places ;).

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Yes... I think that may have been the first cache you ever searched for! :-)

I am still really fond of that icon, and I like the pic you posted of the TB in Resolute too. Its owner was so thrilled to hear that it was going on a NASA expedition... I didn't tell them where to, though, other than "North. Really really north!"

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

PS, am vaguely on IM, if you feel like chatting. I say vaguely 'cause the connection here on my cel ain't great, but it gets pings through eventually.

[dangerpudding.livejournal.com]

pouring down rain and occasionally snow here. Very cold. I'm attempting to configure the ip phones..

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Hm... the weather you get there arrives here 6 hours later, currently. We're waiting for the two IOL-access guys from Grise Fiord who are due to land around 3-3:30pm. Plus a missing Georgia Tech shipment which is hopefully on the air cargo flight that just landed.

Current notional departure is 4:30pm, assuming everything arrives, weather where you are improves, and the Polar Shelf pilots are willing to wait for their dinner...

[dangerpudding.livejournal.com]

Ah, the joys....

Now, to maybe make some of these guys do some work. That'll be fun...

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

BTW... that, rather than the past few days, are what I think of as typical summer weather up here (wry grin).

[inflectionpoint.livejournal.com]

Many hugs for you now and for when you return. I would be fascinated to hear that service - I wonder how the rythms of the service change or don't when the language changes underneath them.

More hugs and also kisses. Come back safely! You are missed.