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Freeoples Thread 331
Posted on 08/22/2002 12:31:35 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: Mo1
Can't stay -- got to get ready to take Gabe to the doc for a physical so he can play football.
Good Thursday Morning FReeople
To: Rowdee
Anything yet on the employment scene?I have an interview next week. I thought it was this week, but he didn't schedule until yesterday.
I had a 5 hour meeting with an investor about one of my patents yesterday, it went really well. I may get some activity within the year from that.
To: Mo1
I open it this morning to see the lovely picture of dead pigs That was so sad (none of them was in a pantsuit)...
To: ValerieUSA
*smootch*
To: Mo1
You look a lot like the little girl in THEM! either that or a young wildwoman...
To: ValerieUSA; All
Morning all,
Is this Gabe's first year of organized football? What fun for him. From the photos I've seen, he looks pretty tall...tight end material?
To: yall
Good Morning!
and a funkle...
To: Cuttnhorse
Durn! Shouldn't you be having an earthquake or somethin'???
To: null and void; Rowdee; lodwick; All
Morning Nully,
The wife goes to the market on Thursdays...avocados,(palta) are now about $1.25, US, a KILO!! Artichokes are 12 for 1,000 pesos, or about $1.43. At least there's one advantage to living down here.
To: null and void
I've finally decided to try to find employment back in the USA and am starting to send out a few resumes. So far no luck. Am getting very tired of the foreign grind, it starts to wear you out after 6 years.
Re earthquakes...am beginning to worry, haven't felt one for almost 2-months now. Hope things aren't gearing up for a big one.
To: Cuttnhorse
I bet they taste better that US veggies, too. We tend to breed 'em for looks, and ability to survive being trucked half way across the country, not taste...
To: Cuttnhorse
We could probably find you something in San Jose. How would you be at cleaning up after the 1860's cinnabar mining in Almaden Valley?...
To: null and void
The neat thing is, the veggies are right out of the local fields. Thursday and Sunday are the big market days and they're fun to go to...about a million booths all selling stuff. The Sunday market is out on the pier and they sell all kinds of fresh fish, fun to spend a couple of hours wandering around. We ususally stop at a small restaurant and have camarones pil pil...which is a bowl of shrimp in a spicy garlic soup...with a beer and bread. Nice to sit and watch the pelicans and harbour seals swimming around the boats.
To: null and void
Interesting! The old Almaden mercury mine. Is it a super-fund site?
To: Cuttnhorse
Yer breakin my heart...
To: Cuttnhorse
I believe so. I know they recommend that you don't eat fish from the local stream.
To: null and void
There is a belt of mercury mines that occurs in the Coast Range and extends up through and north of Napa. I think the state and feds have had a program of cleaning these up for some time.
To: null and void
It was a particularly rich deposit, convienently close to the mother load gold fields.
IIRC, it was one of the few places on earth one could find native mercury. Some chunks of cinnabar would have little beads of mercury inside.
To: null and void
I've seen specimens of cinnabar from there and it was a very rich deposit. Some of the Nevada mercury mines also have native quicksilver in small vugs in cinnabar...it's fairly common in underground mines which are usually associated with hot springs deposits. The Cordero mine in northern Nevada was extremely hot underground and I've talked to a miner who told me that the water in the drainage ditches was so hot that they when they dropped a tool into a ditch they couldn't fish it out with their bare hands. As I recall, the guy who told me this was suffering from acute mercury poisoning...no hair, losing teeth, etc.
I don't think a mercury mine could be operated today with the health regulations that are in effect.
To: null and void
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