what i'm reading

[Scott Badger]

Reading a complete collection of Raymond Chandler's short stories. 1300 
pages of gats, saps and frills....

Just read Apsley Cherry-Garrard's, The Worst Journey in the World -- his 
account of the three-year Antarctic expedition that, in part, launched Scott 
on his bid for the South Pole. Imagine pulling a 200 lb sledge for 9 hours 
through a maze of crevasses in the winter-dark, suffering frost-bitten 
hands, face and feet, and then spending an hour to thaw your way into a 
frozen sleeping-bag while, outside the tent, the winds are gale force and 
the temperature's in the minus seventies.....repeat for several weeks.....to 
get some penguin eggs.....'course, they managed these conditions fairly well 
(and got their eggs). But it gets worse....

Scott