No sooner than the planes had landed in Longyearbyen, my cell phone began to light up with calls from “Steelie Europe”, a special phone line that Hans Amundsen provides for Steelie so that he can be found during the preparations for AMASE. This year, owing to conflicts with a trip to Australia, I was arriving late for AMASE. My job, at least this one, was to bring over things that people had forgotten, items that were lost and broken, and if possible, the crowning touch to margaritas.