Hello, everyone! … The month of October began with quite stormy weather. Accordingly, I decided to move up our normal medical study by a week, so as to make the most of the bad weather. This time we had to take additional blood samples for NASA, and complete some more psychological questionnaires ...[Read more]
It’s “sakrisch” (darned) cold!
Hello, everyone! Some things are just easier to say using dialect. And I remember last using this expression a year and a half ago on a ski tour when, at minus twenty degrees Celsius, the non-slip skins on my skis kept coming loose. We now have (as of 13 August) over 6 hours of sunlight every ...[Read more]
Here comes the sun …
Hi, everyone! Just like every day, after getting up the first thing I look at on my office computer is the weather forecast. Today is Tuesday, 21 July 2020 (just to make it clear, since it usually takes a few days for the blog to go online), and tomorrow the sun is supposed to rise briefly for ...[Read more]
Finally, the sun is back …
Hello, everyone! Today I was rudely awakened as usual by my alarm clock, raised the blinds in my window and saw a strip of red on the horizon. Now you’re probably asking yourself what was so special about that. Well, for the past nine days we’d had snowstorms with wind speeds up to 60 knots, when ...[Read more]