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[jay]

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.



Here are the shirts, weighed down with rocks to keep them submerged in the blood-red water of the Rio Tinto headwaters... note the yellow crystallline sulfur at the water's edges.


And here's my work area, scanning cores in a small storage room in the mining museum ;).

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[geekchick]

. And surprised geekchick with a phone call :)

And a nice surprise it was. =) Thank you.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

You've very welcome, sweetie :D.

[dangerpudding.livejournal.com]

Looks like it's been interesting- I'm finding myself having a hard time adjusting to the relative calm of life here. That, and I actually quite miss Casiano's cooking. :)

Hope all continues to go well, and that you take it relatively easy- the hardest parts are over, no?

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

That, and I actually quite miss Casiano's cooking.

Meeee Toooo! Totally miss Casiano, and all the wonderful folks there at the Hotel, as well as their back bacon, Cola-Cao, and fabulous fish dishes in yummy sauces. Give them all greetings and best wishes from me!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I'll do that tonight, on both of your behalfs. Last night... some kind of country soup or else gazpacho, then pork loin (lomo) in whisky sauce with potatoes or else whitefish in some kind of lemon butter and salad. With a flambeed banana for postres, along with the usual. Long table. Many kinds of imbibables... sounds of laughter and multi-lingual flipping between science and casual conversation...

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Cool! And now we know that the half life of a plastic bag in pH2 water is approximately 1 week. ;^)


Yours has more color variability due to the concentrations caused by the ties.

Yes, well, that would be the point of tie dying, after all! Looking forward to seeing how they came out. Thanks for taking care of these.

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

I do not like this newer interface. Keeps putting my posts and responses in strange places. Weird. Anyhow, you know this belonged to the thread about the shirts, below.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

What interface? The new embedded comment window? If so, then yes, that one has led to a few mis-posts here, too. Annoying.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

That's pretty close... it is also noteworthy that there's no litter remaining in the water, even adjacent to the road. But there's elemental sulfur crystals at water's edge...

Your nightshirt (?) (it's huge!) has a vaguely bird-wing-like pattern across it... it came through the laundry nicely, only fading very slightly.

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Yep, nightshirt. Same one I wore the night we arrived in Nerva. ;^) I folded it in such a way that, with a deep color, it should have had chevrons on the front. With a lighter color, that might not show well. Sounds like it came out more or less like I'd intended, though. Cool! Are there any special laundering tips at this point?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Ah. That night, with all four of us in one room... ;).

Facing the shirt, there are two big chevrons on the right side, almost like arrowheads, with narrow darker triangles at the center neckline and base... hopefully that's what you wanted :).

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

(nods) Well, that's not quite what I'd envisioned, but not far off of what I'd expected, if you see what I mean. And of course, with tie-dye, however it comes out is exactly how you'd meant it to! ;^)

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm. Yum! Now I'm all "home"-sick! ;^) I'd have had the country soup and the pork loin. And the bananas sound wonderful. *sigh*

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

That's what I had, likewise :). You actually integrated pretty well into that community, I thought... and Casiano sends his greetings (translated ;).

And last night I hit the chocolateria in Madrid for one last fling. :D

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Now, it is just figuring out how I get all of my stuff home, and me with it ;). Virginia here asked me about your apple chips, today... and Carol has apparently written checks to Greenpeace in the past ;).

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

What color did the shirts end up being?

As far as Hemingway... You haven't developed a hankering for bullfighting, have you?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Sort of a Sevillian yellow-orange... and no! Heh. Not even with two Cuba libres...

shirts

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Wow. They've been in there a WEEK? Is there anything left of them??? And what happened with the plastic "twine"? Did it hold up, or disintingrate?

Re: shirts

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

The plastic was developing small holes, but was intact. And the shirts were intact, although very yellow-orange. Yours has more color variability due to the concentrations caused by the ties. Right now, they're away to be rinsed and line-dried before I pack them ;).