goth work tasks

[jay]

A slightly weird job task... calling headstone companies, in search of a block of limestone. Our project's Mars-prototype drill arrives in a day or two and I'll need something comparable to Bedford limestone to drill into for initial tests. Finding fieldstone isn't easy, most of it is prefabricated into thin slabs for walls and kitchens. Most tombstone companies use only granite, nowadays, but they're still my best bet for finding a local slab... so I'm calling grave marker companies, identifying myself as from NASA and then asking them about their supply of stock...

Comments

[joelzero.livejournal.com]

Will you bring a chunk of stone back from Mars for my tombstone? ;)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

No, but you could ask soaring_phoenix (below)... ;)

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Heh, too bad you're not around here. "Bedford limestone" is named for Bedford, IN. There's a ton of limestone quarries in Southern Indiana :-)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(nods) actually, I'm looking specifically for Indiana limestone, since that's what the drill was tested with in NYC and in Atlanta.

hey there

[iluvdaphne.livejournal.com]

I'm from Indiana too, we are the limestone state!

[tshuma]

Heh. Conspiracy theorists would make hay out of that, I'm certain.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Just as well that I identified myself as from NASA, not just "the government", or folks might have wondered if I was from Defense or even Homeland Security... :-|