Mid summer heat

I arrived back here in Dunedin last Friday to a 27C heatwave. And promptly got a sunburn. Of course.

On Saturday I moved into a new place. This is the front of the house:
This my room with an awesome view: And this is my room ceiling:
On Sunday I went surfing for the first time. And on Monday I actually started working. And since everything is official now I can finally broadcast it: I left the world of sea ice and entered the world of Geographical Information Systems. I will be doing a GIS-based sustainability study for the City of Dunedin and are very excited about that.

And yesterday we had a little B-day Pizza party here and have started to plan adventures for the summer (even though we spent most of the time complaining about the lack of snow here at the moment)

Cabin Fever Reliever post

The temperatures around here managed to change from -45F to +48F in only 2 days. And so we are all going outside again. In t-shirts. Well, almost. It sure is confusing. I have no idea what to wear. I ended up sitting in the coffee shop in a tank top yesterday because I was way overdressed but forgot to layer a t-shirt in there somewhere. Such is life in the far north.

So yesterday I was finally able to take my new used splitboard for a spin:
And today I took the bike for a spin:

All of this will come to an end soon if the temperatures don't go back down below freezing. Which won't concern me much since I will be out of here in only 4 days. Going back to worrying about sunburns. And work. Life is tough.

How to convert stuff ...

(http://xkcd.com/526/)

Hunkering down and hanging on

This is kind of like a Sarah Palin blog post - everybody's gotta have one. Only this time it's about the weather. Or better the bitter cold. And talking about it has been a Fairbanksian favorite pastime for days now. But yep, it's damn cold here. We even made it onto the "Coldest places in the world" website.
I am currently in Alaska trying very hard to ignore the Dunedin webcams. Sometimes I get well-meaning emails from people telling me about the nice weather there. But what do they know? We have SNOW here! And if it ever warms up again we might be able to go outside and enjoy it. And I'll get to break in the new splitboard. So far only Ben has been lucky enough to use it. On the one nice powder day before the cold spell:
But for now: it's Party Time! Happy New Year everybody!