Happy Birthday to the charming helix90

Your birthday has been a day of natural beauty & sunshine worthy of celebrating your life thus far. May it hold as much energy and promise when the planet spins around far enough to bring the day to you. I wish for you a wonderful day, and for the next year of your life to be even better than then ones which have come before. I miss you!

(PS if you want to visit me whilst I'm still in Australia, best do it soon--I don't intend to be here next year...)

Happy Birthday to the charming helix90

Your birthday has been a day of natural beauty & sunshine worthy of celebrating your life thus far. May it hold as much energy and promise when the planet spins around far enough to bring the day to you. I wish for you a wonderful day, and for the next year of your life to be even better than then ones which have come before. I miss you!

(PS if you want to visit me whilst I'm still in Australia, best do it soon--I don't intend to be here next year...)

wanted: visitors to play tourist with

Anyone want to come visit Tassie and see the mountains in the western, metamorphic, belt of the state? Say in September or October (ish)?

When I was last out collecting samples we took a few oriented mylonites to determine the sense of displacement on them. While I'm reasonably happy that my field notes recorded things accurately, the results once we cut them open and looked at them in thin section were slightly surprising for one of them. Therefore I should head back out there and re-measure the outcrop. But if I'm going to do a three hour drive to take one measurement, it would be nice to have a visitor along, to show them some of the other sights in Tassie and make a full adventure of it.

Since it will be necessary to cross the river, the trip is best done when it hasn't rained in a while, so certainly not before September, at the earliest, but not too late either, as once the thesis is submitted there will be no point in re-measuring anything...

wanted: visitors to play tourist with

Anyone want to come visit Tassie and see the mountains in the western, metamorphic, belt of the state? Say in September or October (ish)?

When I was last out collecting samples we took a few oriented mylonites to determine the sense of displacement on them. While I'm reasonably happy that my field notes recorded things accurately, the results once we cut them open and looked at them in thin section were slightly surprising for one of them. Therefore I should head back out there and re-measure the outcrop. But if I'm going to do a three hour drive to take one measurement, it would be nice to have a visitor along, to show them some of the other sights in Tassie and make a full adventure of it.

Since it will be necessary to cross the river, the trip is best done when it hasn't rained in a while, so certainly not before September, at the earliest, but not too late either, as once the thesis is submitted there will be no point in re-measuring anything...

I used to feel sorry for folk who "have to work", instead of coming along to a fun thing

A young friend of mine asked me in an e-mail recently if I'd been to any beaches or zoos recently. When I replied saying that I was too busy with uni work these days to take time off for those sorts of adventures, he replies saying that it sounded "kinda sad" to be so busy with my uni work. My reply to him, explaining that, actually, it is really rather fun, turned out to be somewhat longer than I think he was expecting. ( full answer behind the cut, not because I think it isn't worth reading, it is, but because it would be lots to page down through to get to the next post on your friends page, and you might have reason to do that after reading this once )

In other news: Today's progress report: only 397 words written (457 if you count the references cited), but the figure they go to took most of the six hours and 40 minutes of actual uni work, and will be one of the more important parts of the project.

I used to feel sorry for folk who "have to work", instead of coming along to a fun thing

A young friend of mine asked me in an e-mail recently if I'd been to any beaches or zoos recently. When I replied saying that I was too busy with uni work these days to take time off for those sorts of adventures, he replies saying that it sounded "kinda sad" to be so busy with my uni work. My reply to him, explaining that, actually, it is really rather fun, turned out to be somewhat longer than I think he was expecting. ( full answer behind the cut, not because I think it isn't worth reading, it is, but because it would be lots to page down through to get to the next post on your friends page, and you might have reason to do that after reading this once )

In other news: Today's progress report: only 397 words written (457 if you count the references cited), but the figure they go to took most of the six hours and 40 minutes of actual uni work, and will be one of the more important parts of the project.