It's funny how different circumstances change things. I mean I go away from Jon all the time to fly up to work. I should be used to his not being here-ness. But I'm not. It feels really lonely being in the house that would normally contain him but he's not there. I'm such a sook. Also for a couple of days there it wasn't even like I could call him if I needed to. Oh and I missed his calls from singapore because of my stupid mobile acting up.

I've been able to talk to him online though so it's not all bad.

There is an art to drawing lines. For a straight line you start at one point focus on the destination and draw it all without looking at the line. Curved lines are a flick of the wrist. Drawing a curved line between two points involves starting at one going half way then starting at the other and joining the two. I am a perfectionist with the lines. I'll draw it, erase it and redraw it until it's perfect. Honestly, it all saves time with digitisation.

I have been drawing lines all day. No seriously ALL day. Tomorrow I may be colouring in between those lines. Geology is... getting paid to be a preschooler.

Argh! Feeling so very restless at the moment. I've already done a couple of laps around the office. I'm sure people will begin to think I'm a caged rodent of some sort if I keep this up.

Fire Fire Fire Fire...

Yeah we had to evacuate from the drill area today. Fun and games.

Well it appears that the bush fire that's been hovering around us for a couple of days has decided to take a turn closer to the camp and the road. It's moving east of us but it keeps cutting back and edging closer to us as well. On the way back from the drilling area I could see flames in the distance over the ridges and now a couple of hours later the flames are cresting the ridge.

We've started using the dozers to cut back on the road and just sort of widen the gap. People are taking regular trips out to monitor it.

Here's hoping it decides to turn again in the other direction.

I'll try and post some photos and stuff later. I'll put links though so as to not break your friends pages.

Map of current location of fire courtsey of satalites and such things
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f300/warpwind82/spotfiremap.jpg

Photo of fire taken by other geos yesterday
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f300/warpwind82/P1010745.jpg

The next couple of days are going to be interesting. Hilarious, slightly painful and above all interesting.

Spraining one's ankle upon returning home for a week break after work is not recommended. It seriously hampers being able to do anything. In short it's frustrating as all hell.

On wednesday night after getting back from the airport I sprained my ankle carrying my bags down the small amount of stairs we have. I did a pretty decent job of it too. My foot swelled up to the size of a tennis ball. I went to see the doctor the next day and he sent me off to get my foot x-rayed. Luckily I hadn't broken anything but I have torn one of the ligaments and damaged the other two.

Suffice to say it's going to take a while to heal up enough to be able to walk on it properly. About seven days or so. Of course I fly back to work in five. I'll still be going because we are seriously short of geos at the moment. I just won't be able to go on a rig or do anything that requires a fully functional foot.

I still went to see Varekai. Damned if I was going to miss that but it was a quite a bit of a strain on me and I was pretty much useless for the rest of the evening. Still it was several shades of awesome.

Tonight I'm still heading off to the PAniC Masquerade ball because I want to go and we kinda need all the help we can get. I imagine I'll be sitting down taking tickets mostly. I doubt I'll be going anywhere near the dancefloor. Still there'll be some nice music playing.

Help! My multi-tasking abilities are getting sorely taxed. Can I simultaneously...
- process traders
- chase up traders who haven't submitted
- calling them if necessary
- process PQ physical data
- pick-up and log HQ diamond core
- sit on an RC rig for two days
- then catch up on the HQ core that's piled up in those two days

and then I think I may just lie down for a little while.

Well, just got back from melbourne and manifest. I had a great time, made another comedy amv for the iron chef. It may have involved Dr who. I got to see a whole bunch of folks again. Many from adelaide some from melbourne (although they tended to be running around a lot, weren't they Mark?). Also damn you again for your Naruto manga scans. Callum won the day with a lovely sentimental video. Oh, and I got to meet Danielle from canberra. Ah, so many editors together in one room racing against the clock. Good times.

We also shopped around melbourne a lot. Consumed all sorts of fantastic foods. Went the crown casino (they had awesome light displays). Oh and we got to see the pixar exhibit at AMI. Well worth it.

Now all that fun's been had I've got to get to bed because I've got a flight early in the morning.

People there's a 10$ sale over at threadless. Jon and I will probably be putting in a order in on Wednesday night (if there's anything left :P )

Things are plodding along up here on site. It's beginning to look like the project before ours won't finish up before I fly out on break. Especially since the compressor broke on a rig this morning. That means I'll have been up here for two weeks without my project even starting! So more piecemeal work for me to do for the next couple of days.

I went out to H1S with Haley and Tracey yesterday and after we finished re-sampling some materials we headed off to see the mine camp and their fabled shop. I confess to being amazed at the thing... I mean it had an ATM! I immediately spent the entire $20 I'd brought on various things. Including conditioner, I have certainly been missing that. Oh, and icecream which was fantastic.

gtg will finish this later

I forgot how full on a project could be even when you aren't on the rigs. I swear I've had my brain split in all sorts of different directions today. Of course having two incidents (no one was hurt) today doesn't help matters. I only did the report for the minor one of the two.

I've been so tired lately too. I was in perth too long, I've become accustomed to normality and to Jon. I miss him.

I think I've finally got all the info ready for the rigs. Although knowing my luck I'll be re-printing it all again tomorrow because something has changed. It's not really particularly hard work just brain intensive. You have to keep track of so many different things and those things can change rapidly. Honestly, I'm ready to knock off now but can't do that got to keep turning over. Spent to long typing this already.

I am alive... that is all.

We have acquired a office mascot today. It's sitting there staring at me through the leaves of the pot plant with it's big yellow owl eyes. There's a little bit of a story behind it.

Last week we had several hundred zebra finches commit suicide on one of our sites. They decided that instead of drinking from the water filled sump they'd have a sip from the gluggy remains of the drilling mud that hadn't been properly disposed of. It generally gets disposed of in the sump since it's a non-toxic compound. Anyway the reason the finches died was because this concentrated glop from the bottom of the tank is rather sticky. So basicaly they died like those dinosaurs did in the La Brea tar pits.

Anyway back to our office owl; apparently birds are scared off by giant plastic owls. I can just imagine one of these on every drill rig. Hehe :) Personally I think we should just stick with the stuff that doesn't create a gluggy sediment like this one did. Also I really want to take a photo of that owl and submit it to the building photography competition under the workplace category.

I have a request if at all possible. A friend of mine, Micheal is doing a Death Note amv during his uni break. He's only got about a week left and he's having serious issues with his Death Note source (plus it's subbed...). Anyway I was wondering if any of you folks had the Death Note Raws. I'd download them myself but to be honest it'd take way too long to get all the episodes (1-28) that he'd like. He's desparate engough to send me and Jon around with a portable hard drive to pick them up. If anyone could help out that would be great. Just email me at leahcrichton(at)gmail.com

After hours spent pondering I believe I have the answer to the question that has been plaguing gamers. Where do we they go from here? (bonus score - dual reference) It boils down to escalation. We began the day with Red, Blue and Yellow. Then followed Gold, Silver and Crystal. Things were broken up slightly with FireRed and LeafGreen but then recovered with Ruby, Saphire and Emerald. The cycle of threes has (barely) been maintained it must continue! But now we have Diamond and Pearl. What can possibly trump that and maintain the trinity?

I sat here and I thought, "Nothing trumps diamond. They have undone themselves." But then I realised it's all a fallacy! The three don't have to genuinely link they just have to look like they do... to a six year old child. Crystal is not truely on par with gold and silver it just seems like it is since it's similarly expensive. Just as pearl doesn't truely compare with diamond neither does the third DS ititeration have to.

Thusly I present to you the solution I theorise: The third DS iterartion shall be called Pokemon - Opal!

It's obscure engough that people will know it's expensive but the majority won't recall how much. Instead of being linked to a single colour like the deep blue of Diamond and the pastel pink of pearl, it can be shiny multicolours. It doesn't trump diamond by any means but it's engough of a jump sideways (much like pearl) that it won't be noticed... right?

Sigh I really shouldn't be as annoyed as I am.

I mean lets use scientific evidence to disprove a tried and true scientific theory but lets remove anything scientific about the evidence and say it's magic! That makes perfect sense! I mean there's no way fold structures in the grand canyon could have been caused by high temperatures and pressures because it's hard rock. Tee-hee, and once somethings hard there's no way it can go soft again. And since it can't be explained it must be God! Oh, and since that disproves all science forever, evolution can't possibly be real and now everyone will believe in God and the world will be a happy place. Because everyone will have the exact same values and beliefs... God's! Who needs free will!

Opps, I've used up my sarcasm quota for the day.

I really need to find myself a bible study group again and through balanced discussion reasure myself that the above isn't what christianity has distergrated to.

Just in case Jon doesn't already know...
http://www.bioware.com/bioware_info/press_releases/2007_06_21_Sonic_DS/

I can't seem to win. I stayed up way too late on monday night. For me that was a wussy 12pm. That was mostly due to COV which I'm still playing even with seriously irritating crashes when I manage enhancements. If it wasn't so unstable on my computer I may consider grabbing a game card or two but with things as they are I think I'll just go back to NWN if I need to incinerate NPC's.

As a consequence I spent tuesday yawning and trying to stop going cross-eyed. So I decided to go to bed earlier that night so I could be functional for work today. If anything I awoke in a worse state than I was before. Looks like I'll be having a similar day of yawning today.

Also my model is being annoying and won't play ball.