April 13, 2006
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Trapped like a…
I’m so busy right now, I shouldn’t even be doing this. But, since big things are upcoming, I had to get this out of the way.
This weekend: trip to Moab, UT to visit the famous Uranium mines!
Tuesday: day trip to Bingham Cu+Mo+Au+U+etc… mine, net worth $750,000,000,000.00 (that’s more than the combined history of Utah’s state budget)!
Next weekend: Move in with Aly!
April 29-30: NFL Draft!
Speaking of mining, Aly and I just got jobs! It’s with a mining company, Palladon Iron (of Palladon Ventures). It will be mostly data compolation at first, with field work in the future. There’s a Iron mine near Ceder City, UT and a copper prospect near Milford, UT. And, we’ll be getting $16.50/hr. Not bad, eh? It may only last through the summer, but who knows…
Last weekend, Aly, Steph, some other friends, and I went to Antelope Island, a state park on an island in the great salt lake. That’s downtown SLC in the background. It an awesome place to go, this time of year. I can be very infested with bugs once the weather warms.
It’s quite a pretty place.
The main reason we wanted to go was to get the fat dogs and the fat (us) out and about to get some fresh air and exercise. Hogan (R) tried to drink the salt water, but failed, but tried again and again.
Look at those cute hikers! And check out the cool Liz-homemade volcano shirt!
We had tried to break Dot into her coller and leash. Not much luck, so we let her go collerless and leashless.
Of course, it wouldn’t be a trip without some drama. When we got there, Steph was trying to get the dogs out of the back of the car, but they were not happy or cooperative. So, as she went around to go at the from a different angle, the dogs had stepped on the “lock door” button, and locked themselves in the car. Uh oh. So, after trying to get the dogs to hit the button again, we called AAA. They said 30 minutes. 90 minutes later, just before we were going to break the window and save the hot, thirsty dogs, they came.
This reminds me of another story. Less than 36 hours later, I was at work, in the athletic tutoring study lab. Well, 4 football lineman decided it was too taxing to take the 1 flight of stairs down, and got in the elevator. This elevator is normally only used by the injured on crutches, but these guys take it all the time. They overloaded it and broke it, and a service guy didn’t come for 45 minnutes. The whole time, they laughed, yelled, pounded on the walls, and hit the loud alarm bell, totally disrupting any studying in the study hall. Of course, most people had trouble concentrating because they were laughing so hard at the situation.
OK, I need to get back to work. I have to grade 16 field reports in 1 week. I’ve done 1.75 so far. Bummer.
One more thing, today’s Cool GeoPic® (Edit: not to be confused w/roddy’s cutie)
Here’s some gold ore. Notice the cubic-shaped hole in this rock. This was pyrite, and the deposition of pyrite coincided with gold. Later alteration disolved the pyrite and left the small gold inclusions behind.
Comments (9)
Cute pups, cool gold, and I love the lineman story!
I really think that you should put in a pic of my baby Geo if you are going to exploit Geo pics. Geez.
AH! LIZ’S VOLCANO SHIRT! She was telling me about how she made that thing, and now that I’ve been able to see it, I have to say that the girl has shirt-making talent.
AHhhh sellin out to the mining demons. Remember the Clark fork man!!! the Clark FORK!!!!! well for 16.50 an hour I’d probably spread my legs too.
Thanks for the comment Matt, I’m sure all the geo people here at Tech will appreciate it! Way to go moving in with Aly, I’m so proud of you!
nice!
did they have the linemen story in the newspaper… that would have been a good one…
The “another story” is awesome.
cool dude! congrats on the job… have fun moving!
ha ha ha… football players… so lazy…
good luck with the move (perhaps you already have? My timeline is all askew). I love the pics and the geo-talk… even though as a social scientist, I have no idea what you’re talking about most of the time. I think it’s interesting.
I should tell you, all sappily, that upon walking onto the UCLA campus from lot 8, of course the first thing I saw was good ol’ Pauley. And it made me miss all of those long nights sleeping out for floor seats… we were really nuts in our younger days!