Planning and preparation - so much fun....

You just could not believe how much is involved in going on a wee holiday. OK, so Antarctica is not your usual Thomas Cook destination but what a mammoth effort, especially considering that we are going with an expedition company that is doing all the hard work. So far this week I have spent almost 2 whole days just trying to automate the sending of my blog to a friend's PC so that it can then be forwarded to an automatically updated subscription list of the people who want to get daily emails about this trip. Not sure what that says about my computing skills but is not the sort of preparation I had in mind. I was really expecting to spend January skiing and climbing, getting fit and raising my rope work skills etc.

Also on the list has been to get sponsorship for our means of communication with you back home, an Iridium satellite phone, and to arrange the rental of that. Then I will need to test that is works with email, blog software etc.... Thanks to Cairn Properties for their sponsporship there.

So if I was to include a photo of the last three days, it would be me stuck in front of a laptop. Any video would capture me swearing at Microsoft Outlook which keeps offering the hope of features but fails to deliver on them.... sorry bit of a rant going there.

Anyway off to break the mundaneness of computing by painting the garage floor.... such is the life of an adventurer... ; -) - Alan