Good news: It's Friday, time for great meals, TGIF and sleeping in.
Bad news: I broke the truck :(
If you enlarge (click) the image above, you can make out our tracked truck being towed back to the garage by a BV. Now, let's make it clear right off the bat that I didn't INTENTIONALLY break the truck, and I wasn't reckless. I turned. Yes, I know turning is pretty dangerous, but I figured it was safe, seeing as how trucks are meant to do that and all ;P Just took a nice gentle turn and we heard a big pop. We thought that we'd run over one of the metal flags marking the edge of the road, but upon backing up I realized that I had no control of the tracks. Hop out, and it's quite obvious what the problem is. I hope that I don't go over anyone's head here with technical mechanical terms.....but we broke the steering thingy :)So, our options to get up to the lab now are the other truck, that has broken power steering and can't turn either...or snowmobiles. Snowmobiles might be fun for the first time or two, but 7km in -50°C windchill might lose its novelty pretty quickly.
Took my final picture of the horizon before the sun comes up next weekend. It's SO bright out right now. When I'm out doing my flasking I don't need a flashlight any more to write my notes!Steering deficiently yours,
Graham
I finally got in! The truck broke because Larry drives like a madman. It wasn't your fault. As for the tracks, it coulda been a lemming. You should catch some and make Lemming Meringue Pie, one of Bernie's favourites. Let's play Scrabble again soon. Peace, peace...
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