Mudaholic meet Iceaholic

Mud sucks; Ice is where it is at. For those of you that haven’t seen a Mudaholic, you will have to trust me when I say that it is slightly less menacing looking than this Delta. And it is allegedly street legal in NY.



Stumpy, try to beat 66x44’s. You might have to do a little fender work to get these under them.

So this is an example of a Delta. This particular vehicle is a Delta II; we also have Delta III. The question of the day is: what is the difference between a Delta II and a Delta III. We will have the answer on the next session.

We have lots of Deltas. They are used for fuel trucks, cargo trucks, personal carriers, and anything else that you can bolt onto the back of a truck. The Delta III has to be 50’ long. They are very impressive when you pull one of them in the shop. They articulate in center for steering, and they are old Navy spec. vehicles and so they are very simple inside. I am going to be a Delta driver for the rec. department during Mainbody. They use these for field trips out to points of interest out on McMurdo Sound. I will post more about my Delta driving when I know more about the job.



Well the weather has been much warmer here this week. However it has been quite stormy to go along with the warmth. Today it was 18F with light winds which was enjoyable to be outside in. I was outside for a while today doing jumpstarts on several vehicles, so I was able to enjoy the weather. However, we have had two storms come through in the last two days. We had snow and 50mph winds yesterday during the afternoon and the evening. And tonight at dinner time the winds and the snow came back for another storm.



Here is a shot of some of the vehicles that we will be digging out soon. We have many of military 5 tons. We actually have one as a shop truck. They are used allot during ship unload in January to move the containers.



We are two weeks away from the start of Mainbody. WINFLY is actually fairly nice because things are fairly quiet and you don’t have to spend much time in line for anything. Computer time is easy to get, and you don’t have to wait in line in the Galley for dinner. But once the crowd gets here we will have more activities and we will get mail and fresh food regularly. And to answer some fan mail, we had ‘freshies’ for the first week down here and the second week we were down to a few ‘freshies’ and now we have basically none. Freshies are any fresh fruit and vegetables. So we haven’t had much for bananas, oranges, salads, etc. lately. Our meals are pretty good here, there is always two choices for a main entrée and lots of cold and hot selections. Most entrees have a sauce on them. Mostly to cover up the fact that you are eating year old food that has been frozen all winter. So we are looking forward to mainbody for some new food. We have a shipment of chocolate and tea coming from Buffalo right now. That should keep us for a while.

And this week we will be participating in the station MCI drill. Paula and I will both be assigned to the Medical Auxiliary. Basically we will be acting as EMT’s in the event of a large station emergency. So we will get to play in the firehouse on Friday. That will be interesting.

That’s all for now.
R.J.