The Milky Way from DA

Not much to report this week. It has been cold and dark, enough that our scheduled station safety drill got pushed offuntil next week. The pressure has been super low for the past week and a half, so the physio elevation has been right around 11,000 ft, with the highest being about 11,300 feet. The side-effects of that kind of elevation were some head aches (at least for me, although they’ve gone away for the most part), and some grumpy people suffering from lack of sleep. The high elevation also made working out harder, especially intervals.

The cooks just switched shifts last week, so we’ve gotten some different styles of cooking for breakfast and dinner. We also got this:

The cake is a reference to this video: Honey Badger

One of the scientists on station has been doing Monday night astronomy classes, and this last week he took us outside to take a look at the sky.

Robert showing off his fancy green laser

Iridium flare

He used a green laser to point out various constellations, and Carlos got some pretty cool pictures.

Tuesday, the trauma team had another little drill. This time we were trying to get our patient out from underneath the floor of the station.

Our friend, the dummy, got into trouble again

Kind of a tight spot, but we got him out on a backboard without hitting his head too many times, and we were fast about it that with Shawn last week.

This weekend was our two-day weekend for the month of May, and we kicked it off with appetizers down in the green house on Friday night.

Joceline crushing lemon balm and mint from the green house,
to add to the home-made hibiscus spritzer

And even thought the cooks had the weekend off, we still got two hot dinners. On Saturday, Shawn, Jared, and I did a burger bar and showed “Two Lane Blacktop” in the galley. Jono made shakes/malts, which were great, and added to the ‘50’s feel of the evening. It went well enough that we are planning another burger night, with a summer theme, for August or September. Tonight Dale, the weather guy, made a Greek dinner, which was delicious, especially the baklava.