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John suggested that we have a S-058 lobster tail party in the Earth Science Bldg. We arranged it for 6:30. Beginning as a do for John, Ludolf, Ghislaine, John Schutt, and me, it grew to Ed, Gisela, Wolf and Christina - Except that Christina is allergic to shellfish so she dropped in at the end.

I ordered all our frozen supplies for camp. Then, as party time neared I picked up our lobster tails, my wine, some crackers and cookies and put them in the lab. Ghislaine got plates, potato salad, green salad, coke, and a whole mince pie & cheese from the galley. When we all arrived John [[Spletsto??]] was there too -- just arrived from Chch. He was here earlier but went home when his wife needed an operation - cancer, chemotherapy, & complications. Came back to resume direction of the NVL camp. Demanded his 2 beers I promised for the slides be sent me of Derrick Peak irons. Party great fun - ended w champagne - & Ludolf telling about the sorry treatment of field parties by uncommunicative radio operator & chalet personnel. Little news is given by U.S. radio -- more by N.Z.

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After the party wrote a few more notes for tomorrow's mail. 10:50 and not tired.

[[underlined]] Tuesday, December 15 [[/underlined]] The day we didn't go to Granite Harbor. Wind howling outside and blowing drafts in thru closed and pillowed windows and out through crack under door. Yet it was mild out and became more so by noon. The usual rivulets flowing downhill through McM were torrents of meltwater. The plane for Chch today was to take John & Ludolf and also the mail So I spent all a.m. writing more letters. 12 or so. Meanwhile I washed my jeans & 2 sweaters -- one with powerful spots of lobster tail butter -- and used the dryer. Shipped lunch. Not hungry and wanted to catch the mail by ~ 1:00. ^[[Ate apple, banana, grapes, cracker I've had for a week.]] I missed it -- John Schutt came by to go to Radio shack for a briefing on our radio band. Did that before going to P.O. Last evening Ludolf told us about the poor rapport between radio men and field parties. This afternoon we got a glimpse of it. Our briefing was by a regulation man who barked info and direction with a continual stream of "OK"s & "you know" Very authoritative, but young. He was scandalized to hear that our colleagues had left a radio & antenna in the field. Went into his files to check them out. Learned that the timing was OK for such a transfer. Instructed us on which bands to use -- regularly and in emergencies. Specifically prohibited calling Scott Base