Instant replay...

For the second day in a row, I finished my self-imposed quota before 4:30 pm. (All that means is that I'll have to be doubly careful when I review the job.)

As variety is said to be the spice of life, I alternated between looking for bank statements and washing laundry and dishes for the "rest" of the afternoon. (I haven't decided if that's a pun, or whether it is intended if it turns out to be one.) That period came to an end around 5:00 pm, when I went into the store to relieve Drew so he could take Huntür home.

I am currently consuming an ersatz surf-n-turf dinner (lamb and shark, which has got to be some kind of first). It is my intention to finish the geology text tonight, leaving me tomorrow to check the text, send it off, invoice it, and then turn to packing for the trip to Albuquerque. If I leave by 1 pm, I ought to get there by 6 pm if I take my time.

I am probably underestimating what has to be done by about half.  We'll see.

Cheers...

Подвод итогов...

I have been translating like some kind of mad fiend all day, and have laid something like 4,500 source words down on phosphor. For some reason, I can't shake the feeling that maybe I've been working too fast, which is going to make tomorrow's check painful, or at least slow.

* * *The other day, while climbing to the Sunetha benchmark, I stumbled across a strange piece of... sandstone (?) lying in the dirt. Most of what appears to be sandstone around these parts is pretty homogeneous and featureless. Quite a bit seems to have turned to shale to one degree or another. (Heck, we live on top of a shale outcropping.)

There was a time I looked for fossils in such stones around here, but I was never able to find any, and never too motivated to look very hard. Recently, with the emphasis on documents that go on and on about Triassic, Jurassic, and Permian deposits, that part of my brain that reacts to the word "fossil" appears to have been activated.

I went back to the hill today during my walk, and confirmed that it was an unusual piece of sandstone. There appears to be some kind of inclusion in the rock, and darned if there don't appear to be shells in the matrix. Unfortunately, if what I know definitively about geology were to be jammed into your eye, you'd probably not feel a thing, so I may be blowing a fine stream of smoke with all this talk.

What I need to do - in my copious spare time - is cultivate someone around here who does know the local geology, and have them take a look at it.

* * *In the meantime, I need to wrap things up and get ready for tomorrow.

Cheers...