I think she was just cleaning out her closet ( Read more... )

We have had enough snow that I am finally willing to call it "winter", and so very grateful I am, after a couple of years of no snow till late November or early December. However, I watch the forecast and see that it is supposed to go back up above freezing, and I worry if it will be another of those winters where the temps oscillate back and ( Read more... )

I have previously managed to organize information about rock thin sections in a spreadsheet, but one winds up with lots of extra columns needed to keep track of everything, and lots of empty cells since not every mineral appears in every rock, and not all possible information about each mineral is recorded for every sample. Therefore I have been ( Read more... )

As I type this it is New Year's Eve-there are occasional sounds from outside of people's fireworks being shot off, and I am contentedly curled up at home with my sweetie, who is at the next computer, within easy reach ( Read more... )

Not surprisingly, this week has been quiet at work as more and more people leave early for their winter holidays. Since lord_kjar had to work all week, including today, my plan was to spend the week working myself (though today is only meant to be a half day for uni employees, which is why so many just take the day off--they need only take off a half day ( Read more... )

I haven't really posted much lately, so I thought I would take the time to type up what I have been up to for the past 9 days since my last update ( Read more... )

When I joined the University of Luleå as an assistant Lecturer this month they asked me to provide them a New Employee Interview for the Uni Intra-Web. So I typed up a short summary of what I will be doing with this job and my previous geology experience, then translated it into Swedish with the help of a friend and GoogleTranslate. (Note that I ( Read more... )

I had started a post talking about the SCA event in Germany and how much fun I had before the event being the one to coordinate the plans for the Laurel Ceremony* and vigil for SvartulvR, the current Prince of Nordmark (who was totally surprised by it all--it never occurred to him that the Crown would present any sort award, let alone a peerage, to ( Read more... )