The first logbook entry I've written by hand in a decade

Pulled out the old waterproof notebook tonight because the plankton tow came back with something I didn't expect — a pseudocalanus bloom two weeks early, and I wanted to feel the ink go down on paper instead of filling in a spreadsheet. There's something about the permanent scratch of a ballpoint that makes an observation feel real. Anyway, the notebook still smells like the boat bottom of 2016.