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Today... was busy. Monday, at the work site in Rio Tinto. I dropped off laundry, including shirts of patgreene's, sarahh's and dawnd's that had been steeping in the ph=2 water since last Tuesday. And spent today doing spectral scans of rock cores, pyrite from about 80m down. And surprised geekchick with a phone call :).

This evening, I was in the taberna inglesia at 2am, the only English-speaking person there... loud and noisy, and I called Nancy... we talked, she remarked that it was surreal to be chatting with me in a small-town Spanish bar, drinking Cuban rum at 2am. "Your life reminds me of Hemingway" she said. "Um... I hope not!" I replied. Interesting, sure... this has been a good couple of years, with fun work and travel opportunities.

( a couple of photos... )

quiet time online

This is the quiet time for me, online... apart from a few souls at NASA working very late, there's very little email traffic, and almost no IM or LJ updates. Kind of lonely, if I weren't generally busy here in the lab....

Lots of cores... 9 so far, nearly a day's worth before lunch (!). My hands are grey... each one takes about a half-hour to process.

Hallelujah!

Finally... Parkfield went off! Twenty years too late, arguably, but at least before cutbacks removed most of the intense instrumentation there. :).