No, love, do not lean over any further. I like when you make my geometric photo perfect! We are at the Stockholm Arlanda Airport terminal here, having just come in from Oslo. More food adventures await us!

But not for lack of trying!

The snow here in Oslo, at the end of the winter, is nothing like Canadian snow, except it kinda is.

Unsurprisingly, we started throwing snowballs. I caught this one of Jonathan's snowball mid-air. I should make a gif of the series, he's adorable.

I love when we can play like kids together.

Okay, I'm working through the Science of Well-Being class from Yale. Week three's lecture discusses Annoying Feature #2, which is that our minds do not think in absolutes, they think in social comparisons. Tragically for us, those comparisons are whatever screams the loudest or we are the most exposed to. So, watch a lot of television featuring old rich f---s and you'll start being depressed because you're not nearly as rich. Our minds ignore that many of said people may have inherited their wealth or won some lottery, and yes, a good IPO is a lottery win, many many businesses fail or have shit business models (looking at you, Twitter).

For my first trip to Antarctica, I made a lot of guesses about what I should do and what I should bring along. Because I have a journal, I wrote down many of my thoughts in the moment about what I would do differently, what I would bring differently. Fortunately, I didn't do everything wrong, and also kept track of what I would do the same next time.

What I would do differently

1. Have an iPhone case with a wrist strap

For reasons I do not understand, a couple months ago I started the experiment of handing conversations back to people when they offered them to me, and waiting to see how long until they handed said conversation back to me again. I would like to say I've been shocked and surprised by the data I've gathered, but I'm really not.

The experiment goes something like this:

Them: "Something really interesting! Let me talk for a bit about this interesting thing. Okay, I've talked about this interesting thing long enough. How are things with you?"

Me: "I'm good. I'm doing this thing. What do you think about this?"

Them: "Why, I think this way about this thing! As a matter of fact, I'm going to talk a long while about this thing that leads into this other thing. I'm going to continue talking for a while."