Every March I take about 3 1/2 weeks away form home to volunteer for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska. I coordinate a group of other volunteers to get the race data collected from the checkpoints and post it to the Internet. My office works 24/7, but in recent years I’ve been able to fine tune the operation well enough that I occasionally get a chance away from my office in the Millennium Hotel to snap some photos around town. And on race day itself, I’m not in the office at all, but rather out enjoying the start like thousands of other tourists.