To wait idly is the worst of conditions.
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.
Keep engaged in the all new popular and fancy, positive side of things!
The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.