March 24, 2006

Diversity

Filed under: General, Work — Chris Parker @ 13:46

This week as the title suggests has been a diverse one for me. On Monday morning I headed into work as usual. After getting settled etc I learn that one of our clients has been on the phone and need some more Gravity work done.

After returning home to change and receiving some additional training, it was off to Maryland to conduct the survey. It took into the late night (or early next morning) to get where we needed to be for that day. We returned on Tuesday to finish up and so some surveying. After it was all done, it was back to Hershey for a 9PM arrival.

Wednesday I was out in Lancaster doing an EM-31 survey. I have not used one of these since Uni and it was good (in a strange, messed up way) to see the beast again. This time though, it was not me with a handheld GPS and a notebook writing down each stations information, but we had a data logger which did all that for me. Wish I had one of those 3 years ago!

Today (Thursday) and Friday I will be in Denver, Colorado. It is a bit of a change of pace as I am not doing field work but more administrative stuff. The view on the flight in was spectacular. The contrast in the snow covered fields was fantastic. The detail with the shadows was great.

Last night I won an English writing competition which was run by Oxford University. Yes yes, it was a dream but it was fun. For the prize, we all went out and had lobster tails (No, I was not drinking before I went to bed :P ). The prize was for a piece about “how do you say hello and why?” I have sort of been thinking about it since and saying hello does reveal a lot about a person. Sometimes you get those fake, manufactured hello’s which need a good dusting off but other times you feel it has more depth to it.

Anyway, next week in diversity I am off to Virginia for three days for a TM-6 mag / Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) job. Should be fun.

 

March 18, 2006

My Apartment

Filed under: General — Chris Parker @ 08:23

I have officially got a place! The lease was signed today (Today being Friday here). I don’t have any piccies yet but I do have a Live Local Link. Piccies should be up over the weekend!

March 15, 2006

Uno

Filed under: General, bahuma.net — Chris Parker @ 10:56

When I was down in Tas, i got addicted to Uno :-) . I found a flash version today on the net. Tis fun! Grab it here

March 11, 2006

Ho Hum :-)

Filed under: General, Work, bahuma.net — Chris Parker @ 09:40

Heellllooo :-)

The work week is now over and the weekend begins. A few things have happened this week to make things interesting. Today I put down the initial deposit on a place of my own to rent. It is close to work (around 2 miles!) and is in a nice area. I am planning to sign the lease on and start the move in process on Tuesday!

Ian left for Australia today. He is going back for around a month to get his Visa sorted out. I also learnt today that in order to obtain a drivers licence in PA, I have to get a learners permit. So I will have to go and do the written test to obtain that and then a few days later I will try for my real licence – what a pain in the bum!

My social security number still hasn’t arrived (not that it should have come by now) so I still don’t have a bank or anything yet so hopefully it comes next week!

It looks like I will have at least one day in the field next week using the TM-6 to look for drums about 2 hours away from here.

Anyways, thats it for now, cu!

March 4, 2006

Back at it

Filed under: General — Chris Parker @ 10:19

Well i’m back in the US and back @ the office. My internal clock is pretty much sorted out now :-)

I have spent the last few days sorting out ‘new to country’ things such as a social security number. Things are coming together :-)

I am off to Maryland tomorrow to help out on an environmental project where gas (petrol) was spilled.

Hope all is well :-)