Gary Paulsen passed away and it made me remember this Norwegian in Alaska.

Back then, I'd take a lot of people to and from the bars - which closed only momentarily - at forty below zero in Fairbanks. There was one older Norwegian gentleman who'd sometimes make conversation on the return trip, after he'd been sufficiently lubricated. "Never get excited," he'd advise me. I wasn't so good at avoiding that particular pitfall back then. That's probably why he saw fit to tell me that every single time we met.