Hey friends and foes alike up there, don't pick on my pal WyoWoman! She may be a bit eccentric, but I was definitely not one of her delusional creations!! We're in the middle of our annual resupply phase down here so I'm pretty busy with vessel comms, data transfers to support SPole flights, etc., but I'll try to be a bit more present here soon. In quick response to a few of the more burning questions in recent posts, yes we have both men and women down here, most very healthy and thoroughly screened by professionals in our beloved medical industry. To paraphrase, "the iceboy cometh" when the situation requireth. The gender ratios down here make those prospects a bit more challenging, shall we say, but not insurmountable. (no pun intended) We're well supplied with alcohol, bars, noisy music, parties and many of the other supplies intented to lubricate the ever humming social machine down here. Could always use a few more women, though. Isn't that pretty much true around the world? ;^) FYI, the weather in our summer is probably much balmier than a typical midwest winter. Our daytime temps, (24 hour sunlight now) are in the 40's to low 50's. We're starting to cool off a bit lately. Scorcha, who's your friend down here and where does he work? Maybe I know him. So the phone's gonna start ringin any second. Back to work. Please post comments, inquiries and criticisms re: Charlie Patton, Blind Boy Fuller, Lemon Jefferson, Skip James, Bill Jennings, BLind Willie Johnson, or most any blues artist who was active from 1925 to 1965. Hell, I'll even talk about Ralph Stanley, Flatt & Scruggs, the Louvin Bros. and Patsy Cline! If things get too slow, we can always fall back on sex and politics, but that's what bars are for, right? May take me a bit to get back to you but I'll check in from time to time. Thanks for making me welcome in this little oasis.