I received some really good news last week. I get to spend the rest of the season working in the control tower. I’ve always been a control tower/approach control kind of guy so working in the center, while interesting, has been a little dreary. You rarely get to actually see airplanes and the view from the tower here is quite spectacular. The move does mean that I will have a thirty minute commute to work each day on one of the huge transport vehicles that look like they just drove off the screen of a Star Wars movie. Unlike traveling on the New York Subway you can actually make eye contact with and talk to people on the commute. (Did that sound like I was being mean to New Yorkers?) I didn’t mean to. The change also means I go onto a rotating shift but that should be a real help to the tower since they have been working short handed all season.

On an unrelated subject, the Oden continues to break ice, the seals continue to come up on the ice in bigger and bigger numbers and more and more penguins are showing up on our shores. The crew of the Oden says the whales are also waiting with “bated” breath to get into the sound for a little lunch.