 This is November 22nd and I'm in the science tent. Dale was staying in here the last couple nights when his tent collapsed, but he put up his new tent and he's moved out so it's turned back into a science tent. So not much science is happening here yet because we don't have any samples and most of the science will be based on samples. But today's been a good day. I went out with Chris earlier today and collected some samples from the surface of the lake ice for hydrogen and oxygen isotopes. He wants to see if there's an isotopic shift from sublimation and how far that extends down into the ice. After that I walked along part of the front of the glacier and saw a bunch of ice pushed up and as even a spot where lake water is leaking through some of the cracks to form a pond. It had liquid water on it today. It's really really beautiful. And then I walked to the edge of the glacier and down across some rain some of its icecord and some of that was a little bit damp and there's some snow melting. There's a little bit of sun today but it was mostly cloudy. But still there was enough heat from the sunlight to melt some of the snow and ice that was in contact with the Park sediment. I walked back along the lakeshore looking for the windscreen for the snowmobile with almost no hope of finding it which I didn't. And then Ian and Dale were putting up Dale's new tent and so I helped them for a bit and then came back and spent most the afternoon working on Matt's both editing the paper describing pinnacles in Lake Vanda and the McMurdo dry valleys and thinking about how for medium type mats like we have here might differ from those that form steep pinnacles which I'm calling Lepda Lingvia type mats. So after that I made potato soup so we didn't eat freeze-dried food tonight for dinner and ran out of propane in a small tank in the cook tent and so we put in a big tank for that and then I set up the table in the science tent and that's where I'm now. Things are more or less back together after I don't know five minutes maximum amount of work since I haven't put the microscopes up yet and that's where I am this evening so it's about 10 till 8 so I think I will probably go fix myself a cup of rubos tea and maybe head to bed do some reading first. So thanks for watching!