I have a day off today (maybe)! Only one day off this week, and I am stuck by the telephone for the next hour waiting to see if I need to go in and help out. One of my co-workers was (is) sick...
RPUer? I am ashamed to admit that I don't know schist from chert. I grew up in Hawaii, where the geology not only is fairly simple and obvious but also I took a local geology course at the University of Hawaii. Hawaiian volcanoes and lava flows are easy to understand because you can walk right up to them and see them happening. Here in the San Juan Islands, the geology is extremely complex both in appearance and history. Subduction zones and ice ages are somewhat mysterious, and there are no obvious strata or fossils.
They just called from work! I think they might survive...
I'm going to light a fire in the woodstove. It's not really that cold, but it's supposed to get cooler tonight and the fire is always motivating.