-Feb 10th. Every six weeks or thereabouts I do the weekend at the post: Saturday from 8 to 2 and Sunday from 11 to 6. This is at the end of a regular work week and stretches until the coming Wednesday when I have 2 days off plus the weekend. Actually the weekends are slow, don`t mind it a bit. When there aren`t many people around somehow the place speaks to you even though it`s a large, modern building. You see empty work places lacking the normal hustle and bustle. Such times allow you to pause and take in a larger picture, and I apply this to any place one happens to be. The post, for example, takes in mail from the entire country. You get a clear sense this place is a kind of ground zero for Iceland.

-The post had free tickets at large local skating rink, so I got them today and gave to a family which can use for both this afternoon and tomorrow; includes free skate rental. The ponds and lakes have ice but too thin for skating.

-Received a flyer in the mail from a local pizzeria, Papino`s Pizza. The owner once worked for Domino`s which has a fairly extensive chain in Iceland, got fired, and decided to open his own. The ad said 30% off all pizzas, so why not?

-Helicopter rescue is very common here, especially pertaining to fishing trawlers at sea. The other day a copter had to rescue a crew of 5 from a trawler north of here, rough waters not far from Greenland. As for Greenland, a smallish freighter pulled into port from Nuuk this morning. You see native Greenlanders walking about town on occasion: not unlike American Indians though shorter and more Oriental in appearance.