brought to my attention:

I'm finding out that many of you are awaiting a new post...I am too!!

Since my last posting, I've been work, work, working. Last Monday I get in to work after my first full weekend working at the station (different beast on the weekends!!), and it is decided to send a crew out to Denali National Park to cover a story about two hikers who have been missing since that Friday. Denali is about a four hour drive away, and I am given about half an hour to get all of my gear together and to run home to pack an overnight bag. I really don't want to get into this whole story now, as I don't have the time to get into it at the moment, but the reporter, SAT truck operator and myself did not return to Anchorage until Thursday evening. 

And then on Friday a reporter, the same SAT truck operator from Denali, and myself were sent to Deshke Landing (just about two hours away), to cover a fishing story; not returning until about 8:30p. By the time I got out of work it was just about 10p, and of course I am on call, and of course there is some spot news happening. So just as I slip into my PJ's, I get a call to go to this missing child story on the other side of Midtown. When all was said and done I did not get home until about 11:45p that Friday night. 

Factor into the equation that I worked yesterday, today is my first day off in 9 days. Not a big deal in Red Sox land, but with being on the road so much and with the Denali missing hikers story such an intense story, I'm pooped. All that being said, I still have to make my way in to the station today to prepare for an overnight trip to Cordova tomorrow morning to cover the Supreme Court decision regarding the Exxon-Valdez oil spill. And I have a ton of editing to do for VVF, not to mention LAUNDRY.

I sincerely hope to have a good post up by the end of next week, about one or several of my crazy adventures lately. I also have other postings I'd like to talk about from my trip home.

Hope you're all well.

Happy Summer Solstice!!  Last night the sun set at approximately 11:45p and rose this morning at approximately 4:20a. I wanted to get up to Arctic Valley so that I could take a couple pictures of the "sunset", but ended up missing it. Bummah.

Temperature update: 52 degrees and rainy in Anchorage

Alaska trivia: average summer temperature of the Arctic Circle: 40 degrees

Emails to return: 15

Phone calls to make: 8

Projects to edit: 9