The very boring life and times of me. http://www.lbcurry.net/blog.html 5/15/2010
I have been playing the waiting game for awhile now...
It is a little frustrating, two other people have left (so the total is now 5 from work down there) and I'm left up here - with the guy I was suppose to go with, and we are both excited & waiting to go. It is kind of hard to plan anything when you never know when you are going. (They said to "leave my cell phone on" this weekend *again*) You can only keep your bag packed for so long.

The silver lining is that I'm getting to see spring at my house. Several off the bushes are blooming in the yard, I saw a humming bird at my bird feeders the other day, a few seeds I planted outside are coming up, it is fun.

-lbd
http://www.lbcurry.net/blog.html#05152010 5/8/2010
At the very least, this is a temporary re-start of the blog to let everyone know what I'm doing down in Mobile, Alabama. Yes I'm heading out from our "new" cozy little Rhode Island house to save the world... I'm telling my parents I'm be deployed - oceanography style :-D

So to catch you up on what is happening: I'm going to be heading down to AL, for work, to help organize samples from several cruises collected in the Gulf. We are trying to help assess damages from the big spill. I'm not going to be on a boat this time, but I'm going to be "on the ground" organizing what comes in from several boats. I have a feeling it will involved a giant-new type of metadata that involves a chain of ownership along with what usual what/when/where/how you normally see.

Currently I'm in a state of alert, but they don't think I'm going down until Wednesday (5/12) at this point. I'm really excited to go help out with such a big and important project. At work it really is "all hands on deck" so to speak, and 3 people from the office are already on boats collecting samples in the Gulf. At least 2 more of us are going, so lots of other projects are being put on hold. I am amused though,I'm being pulled off the Block Island wind project to go help with an oil spill. We were TRYING to go in the right direction... :-)

-lbd
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