Interlude with Mr. Reinhardt

For your friday enjoyment and musical enlightenment I post a tune by Django Reinhardt.

Workin' Man

Yeah, I finally got a field day!

This past week a a co-worker and I went to a site on Cottage Street in Bar Harbor (pronounced, Bah-Ha-bah) to conduct a soil gas survey. The picture is of me using a hammer drill to make a hole through the asphalt; And that hammer drill kicks like a friggin' mule I tell ya! *side note* Once thing about B.H. is that in addition to all the tourists there are also a lot of hippie kids with fat bank accounts and rich parents who just hang out all summer and smoke pot. Annoying, at least take a shower. oh and petruli oil is fucking rank. *anyway..*

Since we were making holes so close to underground pipes we vacumed out the hole with that shopvac and pvc pipe down about four feet. Then insert the steel rods and turn on the PID to check for gasoline vapor. The whole deal worked slick as shit. A little bit physical, but it was better than doing paper work. I've got to say too, that the data was good and the methodology for the assessment of vapors solid.

So I did that at two sites last week and hopefully laid the ground work for more of these types of jobs at the company.
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While I'm here and writing; notice that I added a music download to the right side bar. Feel free to download any of the music that I put up there. It is my brothers band and the songs are from a CD they made a while back. He thought it was pretty cool that I could starting spreading his stuff via the webs. Ill have to add a link for him once he gets something up.

I also decided to add a PayPal donate button. I figure I might as well start pimpin'. Why not? Beside if you really like the music or my wittings you can throw some spare change this way.

of Podcasts

Last summer while out cycling my wife found this mp3 player.
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It's an innovage with 256k memory. as far as mp3 players goes it is LOW end and the reviews for it are suck city. but free is free and the 60$ or so it cost didn't come out of my wallet so that's good. I do feel a little sorry for the parents of the kid who lost it. I'm sure they paid for it. Just not enough to hunt down an owner.

So for the past year I have been using it to listen mostly to my own music. Stuff i ripped from CDs. Yeah, i still buy cds.
But recently I have started to put podcasts on it. I have been using the Digital Podcast web site to find things that may interest and entertain me during my lunch time walks.
I gotta say. Podcasts are pretty cool. I can see how city people and sub-way riders really benefit the most of these things. I find my self lost in the both the music and show I listen to, Occasionally talking out loud to myself in response to the show.
I find it is also good at helping you ignore bums asking you for spare change. Just keep on walking.......
For the time being this is my newest electronic device. and like I said, it only has like 256k of memory but for now I find it covers the bases. Perhaps one day I will crank up my inner nerd and go for the actual iPod.
But at the rate I usually do things I'm more likely to find another one.