"After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake" -- Elvis Presley

Being hurled off the top of rock in high winds isn't something I previously thought of as fun, but as it turns out, it's a right laugh.

Trouble is after putting so much faith is the tiny pieces of metal that are keeping you from falling to your doom, you then have to remove them, in order to climb back up the rope (after first securing the necessary climby-upy bits)

A large part of my job will be Meteorological Observations, so I've been training on the subtleties of cloud types and the proper format of recording weather, optical phenomena, and other met info, in a way that can be universally understood and fed into forecasting models used by the Met Office.

Oh. And here's a picture of me posing on a mountain.

The token balloon launching photo. Lost the opportunity to strike a proper pose though.