tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19216099.post6376306712217829619..comments2024-02-16T06:03:12.489-06:00Comments on BrummellBlog: Interlude II: 080707TheBrummellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08973380652057861796noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19216099.post-31900244963081144682008-07-21T17:48:00.000-06:002008-07-21T17:48:00.000-06:00Some day (actually possibly quite soon) I shall ha...<I>Some day (actually possibly quite soon) I shall have a car and be able to 'spend some time' in places.</I><BR/><BR/>Carlo with wheels? What is the world coming to!?!<BR/><BR/><I>So the guy just came up and asked about ID because you were marked as biologists?</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah. I guess the guy knew what the word "biodiversity" means, or he guessed it from the giant pictures of butterflies and dragonflies plastered on the Bio-Bus. Still, a little odd.<BR/><BR/><I>While I'm glad that there are no mosquitoes in the Hammer, the weather has beed humid and hot-as-hell. It has also rained a lot this summer.</I><BR/><BR/>Hot? Check (Florida in June)<BR/>Humid? Check (Again, Florida in June)<BR/>Mosquitoes? Check (Northern Ontario, Manitoba in summer)<BR/>Rain? Not so much, actually. Most of the rain I've seen this summer has fallen on a windscreen in front of me, rather than directly upon me.<BR/><BR/><I>You've obviously got a lot of stamina to be able to be doing that kind of stuff day in and day out.</I><BR/><BR/>I do get into a kind of field-work groove, which is only superficially different from the 7-days-a-week lab-work groove I've been in before. Damn holidays, screwing up my collecting schedule...TheBrummellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973380652057861796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19216099.post-3290758927385083232008-07-21T12:58:00.000-06:002008-07-21T12:58:00.000-06:00Whoops, swap northern manitoba with northern ontar...Whoops, swap northern manitoba with northern ontario in my comment.King Aardvarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02785457928646226831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19216099.post-35255819951388115622008-07-21T09:27:00.000-06:002008-07-21T09:27:00.000-06:00I never gathered the necessary courage to try to d...<I>I never gathered the necessary courage to try to drink the Maxwell House instant coffee that was available.</I><BR/><BR/>That stuff is CRAP.<BR/><BR/><I> I was expecting such comments in the “bible belt” of the Southern USA, not at a highway pause in Northern Ontario.</I><BR/><BR/>I've heard it suggested that Ontario may have a pair of bible-suspenders or some such...<BR/><BR/><I>The weather was often cool enough that I could wear a sweater or hoodie that at least kept the flying parasites away from all but my head and hands.</I><BR/><BR/>While I'm glad that there are no mosquitoes in the Hammer, the weather has beed humid and hot-as-hell. It has also rained a lot this summer.<BR/><BR/><I>This trip also reminded me that I have some roots in Northern Ontario, and that I’d like to spend some more time there.</I><BR/><BR/>Some day (actually possibly quite soon) I shall have a car and be able to 'spend some time' in places. I'm looking forward to it. It's too bad that you didn't get to come out to Necator's cottage that time we went fishing on the lake, you would have enjoyed it.<BR/><BR/>I'm glad to hear that you're having a productive summer. You've obviously got a lot of stamina to be able to be doing that kind of stuff day in and day out. I on the other hand have had so many damned things on my mind this summer that I don't even know where to start!Carlohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00153076425887492166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19216099.post-55356838576113577882008-07-21T08:30:00.000-06:002008-07-21T08:30:00.000-06:00So the guy just came up and asked about ID because...So the guy just came up and asked about ID because you were marked as biologists? Still, that's very very odd, and in northern Manitoba no less. Anyway, you're a lot more polite about it than I'd be.King Aardvarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02785457928646226831noreply@blogger.com