Not much to say tonight, as it reaches the close, just relishing a good conversation about books and meanings, some story trading, a sauna and a shower.

Still have to celebrate those simple things to keep perspective here.

The sun continues to circle lower on the horizon, the shadows lengthening each day. You notice this not directly, but in smaller ways. During a game of pool two of us found ourselves blinded looking down the table toward the windows in the lounge. One or two more days and the sun will have lowered enough that the station will block it. We won’t be blinded again for six months.

It’s hard to believe, but we’ll be in the dark by the end of this month - or at least in a long-term twilight.

I’ll throw up some photos soon of day to day life here. A brief traverse through the waking hours of my world and a few last photos of the horizon before it goes dark. Also, there’ll be a couple of pictures from a trip out to SPRESSO on Sunday. SPRESSO is a vault, buried about 35 feet down in the snow, seven miles away from station, that houses equipment to measure seismic activity around the world. It was a good Sunday trip, a couple of hours away from the station and out on the polar plateau.