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Name: Matthew
Birthday: 4/8/1976
Gender: Male
Interests: My dogs (1 springer and 2 brittanys!), paleontology/fossils, painting, astronomy, a good book.
Expertise: Good question. Certainly not life.
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Member Since:
5/13/2004
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| And maybe someday we will find , that it wasn't really wasted time. | | |
| I'd been away for 10 days in Galveston. I flew home Tuesday and Thursday night headed north for a fossil hunt in Alpena. I know Amy didn't want me to go, but she's so understanding and knew I really needed one last fossil trip before this year ended.
I spent Friday hunting alone. I hit a few spots I usually don't hunt. I did ok, but nothing too special.
Saturday I set up a field trip for the Friends of the UM Paleontology Museum group. We spent all morning in the largest limestone quarry in the western hemisphere. There are quite a few exposed bioherms or reefs. I found a hand full of crinoid calyxes. This quarry also have quite a bit of Devonian fish material. One of our members is an expert with fish and has collected at least 5000 specimens. Some of them are small bone fragments, but he keeps them all. I found a tooth and showed it to him to see if he could identify it. He looked at it and said, "I know what this is. This is a lung fish tooth and only the second known specimen. I have the first. The species hasn't been described yet, so it's unnamed."
By far, the coolest thing I found this weekend.
It felt good to get away and I'm so lucky to have a wife that understood I needed some time away.
Now back to the grind at work...
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| I'm in Galveston for a week and a half. Two conferences and visits to the plants in Houston. I remember why I hate business trips so much. I flew in Monday and checked my e-mail at the plant. I'd been "out of the office" for all of 4 hours and I already had 40 messages. Two projects need my attention, but I can't work on them from a distance. All my data, reference material and other information is in my office. My boss is making promises that it'll get done while I'm gone without understanding the issues. I've tried to call him twice to explain. I don't care anymore. I'm just so tired of everything being so difficult. There's no pride. No teamwork. No recognition. It just pays the bills. At least I'm taking a vacation day next Friday to go fossil hunting. I don't think my boss realizes I'll only be in the office 2 days in the next two weeks. | | |
| Jasmine turns 9 today. I haven't seen her in over 2 years. I understand I probably won't see her again and that hurts. I hope you're doing good Jazzie-girl.
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| I may have a job opportunity. I need to think about if I want to pursue it...
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