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Got the catheter out. Can pee. Testified in the murder trial. Mixed day.
Odd , it is extremely dreary here , no sunshine , not much hope for better in the near future . Dusty
Lannis , I know you are speaking in code , don't politicize this thread also ::( Dusty
"The crow flies at midnight. Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling! Grab your egg-and-fours and let's get the bacon delivered!"
Someone is a Richard . Dusty
Today is an endless grind of analysing nastly 1840's garbage. Nick
As I remember, you're an independent archaeological consultant .... So how do people know to find you? And who wants some 1840's stuff (I assume it's not literally garbage although it might be) analyzed ???We hired one of you guys in Pennsylvania when we were getting ready to build a new power plant ... makiing sure we weren't digging up something that might be of historical interest during construction? Is it that sort of thing? Lannis
Exactly. Under various bits of legislation, developers, crown corporations etc. are required to make sure they aren't destroying anything (along with eagle nests, rare plant communities etc.). In the case cited above, a developer hired us to investigate a 700 acre piece of swamp and limestone plain. Nobody in their right mind would ever have chosen to live there, but it was all divvied up and surveyed following the American Revolution when the 'Loyalists' needed land where they could continue to live in thrall to their masters in the UK ~;. Of course the connected got the best land and held much of the rest for speculation. In the first half of the nineteenth century, various settlement schemes sought to populate the area with the disadvantaged from Scotland and Ireland. I think many of them found exchanging a 1 acre tenant field in Donegal for 100 acres of their own in Ontario wasn't such a great deal after all.We found four historic cabin sites during the assessment. Hard scrabble farms indeed! The best of them continued to be used and farmed into the 1960's. The other three were burned out during the 'Great Fire of 1870' - a massive conflagation which destroyed the farms and livelihoods of thousands of people, and incidentally, resulted in the first government social assistance program in the 'new' Canada. And yes - most of it really is garbage. Tiny sherds of pottery, nails, bits of clay pipe - the junk people swept out of their back door, dropped between the boards on the porch, or threw into the manure wagon. It ain't all like 'Time Team'.Nick
.................Pretty specialized work in this case; the same guys don't do the Indian stuff as do the European settler stuff ....Lannis
I just set a record for the world's shortest and cleanest Management Review meeting, and I'll spend the rest of this week in final preparations for an external ISO 9001:2008 recertification audit. Believe it or not, I love my job - never a dull moment.
We just had an 'aftershock' of the same-ish magnitude and depth. It felt the same to me, but it's recorded as a 4.2.
At least life in Sitka is never boring , at least here we get some warning before a tornado :D Dusty
[Lannis], do you work with a calibration lab?(edit) Okay, what kind of testing ? Do you get to test motorcycles, or is it something more like oil / mineral / water samples ?