tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70434975543869572092024-03-13T06:53:30.167-07:00Daggy Dad geo, or T-Dawg, done it alone in OZ with MSwas the Sole Parent and with MS starting trying to get four kids out into the wide blue world. Score: four in the wild! Now semi retired maybe, cook, windsurfer that needs to be a better amateur meteorologist, Alcoholorist; ex-winemaker ex-beermaker, ex-diy-distiller, keen and paid drilling rig wellsite geologist , has RRMS, RC yacht hobbiest, drone pilot. Coffee lover. mad SF reader,
Mad keen speed sailor on sailboards, ambition 35 knots or much better!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger426125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-76062360587086981392021-12-12T23:00:00.002-08:002021-12-12T23:00:22.071-08:00towards ending<p> maybe the last, other wise go to <br /><br />https://wp.me/p10Uuj-Qh</p><p><br /></p><p>cheers big ears</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-56417765140837983642021-07-31T00:33:00.003-07:002021-07-31T00:36:46.865-07:00@0$%^ and that was 2021<p></p><h1 style="text-align: left;">Long time no posting</h1><h2 style="text-align: left;">but have almost semi-retired due to the UNPRECENDENTED #$%^ awful time since March 2020.</h2>have a guess why<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Anyway, hacking this old blog space to pieces, by means of adding all my blogger blogs into this one, if it works that is.</h3><div>So far it appears to be working. Might mean a lot of editing again, so maybe a book can be decontructed from the blahblahblah? Who knows. Self evicseration laterly has had the painful realisation of a self I did not know was or is probably just a short arse pain in the ass niggling you or whingin and never being perfect but really <span style="color: #2b00fe;">"<b><i>wants that</i></b></span><b style="color: #2b00fe;"><i> too</i></b><b style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>- and right now!</i></b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">".</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v7hYsNh3OKU/YQTvNFeebjI/AAAAAAAAE6s/WI2OVS48GIwn_Ur1-TGtwLI8VDdkOH_pQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/b38db3f0-9ca4-11eb-9f58-9fa0941fde94.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="All I really wanted was to go barefoot skiing and what did you do?" border="0" data-original-height="1227" data-original-width="2000" height="196" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v7hYsNh3OKU/YQTvNFeebjI/AAAAAAAAE6s/WI2OVS48GIwn_Ur1-TGtwLI8VDdkOH_pQCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h196/b38db3f0-9ca4-11eb-9f58-9fa0941fde94.jpg" title="All I really wanted was to go barefoot skiing and what did you do?" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></span></div><div><br />So when I am am done and dusted or even still piling S#@T on here anyway and anyone feels that I need to be pysych-o-ed analysed, at least here are the usual rants, objections, achievments or otherwise, point of view, humour or not notes, crap, weather, geology, sailboarding, kids etcetera etcetera, that you can comb through and react to or with. </div><div><br /></div><div>The sites should have a dedication to my SIL, cos guys do not seem to say aloud what is going on in the head- like me as a widower raising four kids alone- "hi, how are ya?". So I started this and other blogs a decade ago to see if it helps grief. Or more? Like exercise, hast not cured moi. I think. Anyway, weekly visitations are off as another realisation was made self evident, not really a two way thing anymore- PITA but yeah why not. </div><div><br /></div><div>Well.</div><div><br /></div><div>ATM shitty as not getting work THROWN in my direction as COVID cr%pped on it as soon as I was signed up for some great location work close to a speedsailing site- VERY annoyed at that. Not helping my moping, and turning off by reading mah kindle. Or doing Angry Birds a lot.<br /><br />Plans are to tidy up and get out of Her hoose and closer to rest of family, faar away from the helipad of my moroseness.</div><div><br /></div><div>I did buy a RC plane to learn to fly, and seems not a flier, so off it went. I bought a drone to do videos or stills of geomorphoogy or wellsite drilling sites for oil/gas companies, or just stuff.<br />Problem is, you need to learn a lot of stuff so people and stuff are not bothered by the 'drone sound and privacy invasion'. Spoilt the fun of it. I do have some published pics by a newspaper and a company paid for stills for the annual report- so that was nice, but I have not profited by it yet. There's seven grand in equipment and training doin' nutin'.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1Mw28WL4GcM/YQT065BwV7I/AAAAAAAAE68/raEDm-EYjnsdw1apBVSxm82PzjTP8_1VACLcBGAsYHQ/s4000/DJI_0157.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1Mw28WL4GcM/YQT065BwV7I/AAAAAAAAE68/raEDm-EYjnsdw1apBVSxm82PzjTP8_1VACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DJI_0157.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ixNyRcp8op8/YQT06lDi1-I/AAAAAAAAE60/bsdd9TVlEIIUAfRIYUUus0LhZi4Jw3UJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s4000/DJI_0352.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ixNyRcp8op8/YQT06lDi1-I/AAAAAAAAE60/bsdd9TVlEIIUAfRIYUUus0LhZi4Jw3UJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DJI_0352.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-du7rbwTq54M/YQT06uc8WTI/AAAAAAAAE64/vf-x4tlzHxEUQOkauZE9J2mVqwEZzxX0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s4000/DJI_0369.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-du7rbwTq54M/YQT06uc8WTI/AAAAAAAAE64/vf-x4tlzHxEUQOkauZE9J2mVqwEZzxX0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DJI_0369.JPG" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Changed my sailing profile, bugger waves and chop- Speed is it, got two action cameras and new sails, and new fins since Jan 2020, so armed for those bears. Weather permitting and the bloody borders are open. Lake George is the place, South Australia. OMG.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--6xjRjhuXf0/YQT1aVWoPxI/AAAAAAAAE7M/bowIU4A32i0Ifzwlzbk0tVUaxDqKhJRSgCLcBGAsYHQ/s4000/DJI_0028.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--6xjRjhuXf0/YQT1aVWoPxI/AAAAAAAAE7M/bowIU4A32i0Ifzwlzbk0tVUaxDqKhJRSgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DJI_0028.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NQrH4fn0i18/YQT1l34jFpI/AAAAAAAAE7Q/87ViE2gITugPJ6BqCkgsm9efs_mQT4KVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2565/IMG_20210120_115825.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1226" data-original-width="2565" height="153" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NQrH4fn0i18/YQT1l34jFpI/AAAAAAAAE7Q/87ViE2gITugPJ6BqCkgsm9efs_mQT4KVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210120_115825.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LezQYCHELWs/YQT8mgYsfMI/AAAAAAAAE7k/d-cZyDalWSs7LkSrUyiUONK2-v6vlMA6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1922/157347041_10160853592374972_4575322049401493170_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1081" data-original-width="1922" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LezQYCHELWs/YQT8mgYsfMI/AAAAAAAAE7k/d-cZyDalWSs7LkSrUyiUONK2-v6vlMA6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/157347041_10160853592374972_4575322049401493170_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MzcwW9_khp8/YQT8mh81-KI/AAAAAAAAE7g/FKlcmoZZuDA8My_p8vT5p3Cq9oyMPsQFACLcBGAsYHQ/s1338/157615084_10160862307784972_6325816086246964504_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="941" data-original-width="1338" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MzcwW9_khp8/YQT8mh81-KI/AAAAAAAAE7g/FKlcmoZZuDA8My_p8vT5p3Cq9oyMPsQFACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/157615084_10160862307784972_6325816086246964504_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gll2X-1XEUQ/YQT8mmLynBI/AAAAAAAAE7c/UkJc3YNTCWQs2JNqC3QWkPxp1_MeJTH7wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1922/159155653_10160869605854972_6611154029559532354_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1081" data-original-width="1922" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gll2X-1XEUQ/YQT8mmLynBI/AAAAAAAAE7c/UkJc3YNTCWQs2JNqC3QWkPxp1_MeJTH7wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/159155653_10160869605854972_6611154029559532354_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6bnzre3qGXc/YQT8nVnwlNI/AAAAAAAAE7o/iyQJn52byc0aINaci7vydeHCNkzomMDbACLcBGAsYHQ/s1922/159357313_10160869605484972_6083709370363684708_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1081" data-original-width="1922" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6bnzre3qGXc/YQT8nVnwlNI/AAAAAAAAE7o/iyQJn52byc0aINaci7vydeHCNkzomMDbACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/159357313_10160869605484972_6083709370363684708_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Old van was condemned by experts, a newer van happened, helped out fo a new one. Tickets have happened. It is an auto, so that means a lot.</div><div><br /></div><div>Company car sold for rent and food, but kept in the fam, #2 boyo thought he needed a car. Nice.</div><div><br /><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-58977882999798293502020-04-05T10:32:00.000-07:002021-07-30T23:13:57.237-07:00Slow downWell probably, here anyway, rather update to other one if you dont mind clicking to the wordpress "dia-ration". This weill be there.<br /><br />"And So!"<br /> 2020= lockdown, trumps parastism extending putridness all over the west- wake up stupid yankees, stop me now, but social media over there has gone mad attacking "Dear Leader". Good.<br /><br />Don't like to say but times are a changing, not off the block this last week, hopefully another project rears it's head soon, the garden has been "shredded" but cannot dump the mess- "non-essential travel"? My SA...<br /><br />Did I ever mention I am now a multi-prop drone pilot? Even got paid for some promotional drilling rig pictures last year while on a drilling job, most satisfying. And also a model plane learner driver- just in case a fixed wing drone job cames up.<br /><br />A new yacht graces the water down the little pond, and an updated older model sports a new rig, they are both most excellent little boats.<br /><br />Spent time reparing or making sure two old portable CD players work and both twenty five years old- one had shit batteries ands ruined battery compartment so it only works on acdc power now, ouch, but has a line out jack- the sony one does not, but as a marvin example- both had the "hold" switch on, held me back ten miutes til I wotrked that out, did not want chuck out more bloody modern technology- I do hate that.<br /><br />Just finishing off a small garage cleanout- last two boxes of SF mags. I first started reading and then buying Ananlog Science Fact and Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov's SF mag, and Fantasy and SF magasines in 1979 when I started uni, work that bookshelf length! Very sad to find out that the recyclers do not take books and magasines for recycling- straight to the trash pile! I did not think anyone would want them so bye bye over half my lifetime's reading material. But, it is online so really no floods of tears.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-37386375488199226442020-04-05T10:06:00.000-07:002021-07-30T00:33:19.751-07:00Could be BusierWell Corvid19, not that I wished for it, but I was thinking a noticeable sea level rise would have been a Better Distraction than Trunpy doing fek all over the pond. As usual, the parasite swamp orange mould growth.<br /><br />Not good for business<br />Not so freely available as the commitment is to the first one to call on my services. Please call or comment.<br /><br />There maybe work down SW Victoria sometime soon, onshore with an ERD well, and maybe offshore as well. Fun times.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-57818699785728304592018-08-08T03:30:00.000-07:002021-07-30T00:33:20.228-07:00<h2>AVAILABLE 2018 </h2><h3>An Update on the career</h3><h4>Southwest Queensland</h4><div><br /></div><div>I am available for the rest of the year as a contract wellsite geologist Australia wide.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5YmbIox6qUI/W2q-vArqFcI/AAAAAAAAEEw/Lz7Vh5FG5xggzlyIxoSqqjQjaj2JQacNgCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20180430_184643_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5YmbIox6qUI/W2q-vArqFcI/AAAAAAAAEEw/Lz7Vh5FG5xggzlyIxoSqqjQjaj2JQacNgCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_20180430_184643_resize.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The last completed contract was with Real Energy Corporation, on a two well campaign program, appraising the Tamarama field, southwest of Eromanga, Queensland, about 4 km west of the Cocos field and north of the Mt Howitt field. I had been on quite a few wells in the district since the eighties and nineties, and welcomed the chance to do some more drilling in the area after many months out of the field and work.</div><div><br /></div><div>The job started early April, and was completed by the end of May, doing the usual wellsite geologist chores, microscopy/fluoroscopy, reports, predicting formation tops, overseeing the mudloggers and the wireline contractor. </div><div>The rig was a super single, very effecient drilling, but tripping- man oh man- so just as good as a triple anyway. </div><div>According to the exploration geologist, it was a tough but good little job, and the company looks forward to getting the field developed. </div><div>It was a very good work environment, the people all great at the jobs, and besides some little usual hiccups to be expected on any drilling/logging job, I enjoyed the opportunity and experience out there. helped to have the intenet on tap too! </div><div>Seven weeks away- at one stage towards the end I thought I can stay out here for another well- next day- noo, not really, a break would be good.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pQivvqcZ63M/W2q-tx2vBpI/AAAAAAAAEEk/XALvyxZc1eAeASUTmY6fj0LblCsdad3TgCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20180413_152521_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pQivvqcZ63M/W2q-tx2vBpI/AAAAAAAAEEk/XALvyxZc1eAeASUTmY6fj0LblCsdad3TgCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_20180413_152521_resize.jpg" width="320" /></a>To start the job, I flew to Charleville via Brisbane from Melbourne, and drove to the wellsite via an overnight at Eromaga pub. It was interesting to see the development of gas extraction fields west of Toowoomba to Eromanga- there is a lot of energy developmet to do yet out there. Pass it on, being a geologist and having a window seat at twenty thousand feet- or any altitude really- is one of the best seats for a geologist- or wanna be geomorphologist too!</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G-FhGMwkWXU/W2q-wef3-BI/AAAAAAAAEFA/n4y_q1i34jwsHmqJBaU2pKsEoafHW0RjACLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20180502_121143_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G-FhGMwkWXU/W2q-wef3-BI/AAAAAAAAEFA/n4y_q1i34jwsHmqJBaU2pKsEoafHW0RjACLcBGAs/s320/IMG_20180502_121143_resize.jpg" width="180" /></a>As it was mid autumn, the weather was warm to cool day and night, some nights with excellent nightshots.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QCcqnkVlrJ0/W2q-v9LBxQI/AAAAAAAAEE8/tKaZ5MPdPBERVbzc19m1echlBLLEQBPRwCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20180501_170501_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QCcqnkVlrJ0/W2q-v9LBxQI/AAAAAAAAEE8/tKaZ5MPdPBERVbzc19m1echlBLLEQBPRwCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_20180501_170501_resize.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div>At Eromanga there is a dinosaur museum, a great plce for a hour or two to visit, with some of the largest ones recovered from a paddock at a nearby cattle station. The bones were stumbled over by the owners son a few years ago, he thought a boulder looked really different from others spread around.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_gXgmh-Af7g/W2q-xOWHSeI/AAAAAAAAEFE/XZK727zZlhg3CamdjJkW0FnTNOiXrZsaQCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20180503_142910_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_gXgmh-Af7g/W2q-xOWHSeI/AAAAAAAAEFE/XZK727zZlhg3CamdjJkW0FnTNOiXrZsaQCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_20180503_142910_resize.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C2pcW8Dsio8/W2q-xHb6SeI/AAAAAAAAEFI/kSX4t5zjVrUb3ZQjR6rqg3N7UXVx-K7FwCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20180503_144403_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C2pcW8Dsio8/W2q-xHb6SeI/AAAAAAAAEFI/kSX4t5zjVrUb3ZQjR6rqg3N7UXVx-K7FwCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_20180503_144403_resize.jpg" width="180" /></a>There are some other great places to visit on the time off, including Hells Hole Gorge national Park a real surprise to explore, a few hours drive north.</div><div>The highways have plenty of cuttings, a chance to study the outcrops that were soon to be drilled through with the wells further west.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Unnamed Road, Eromanga QLD 4480, Australia-26.848578525873279 142.5201416015625-27.301240525873279 141.87469460156251 -26.395916525873279 143.16558860156249tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-25456037710279063092016-12-30T20:47:00.000-08:002021-07-30T00:33:20.529-07:00Available at this time 2017 as Wellsite Geologist Again<span style="font-size: large;">Available at this time 1st January 2017 as Wellsite Geologist </span>A<br /><br />Again, I can be contacted right now asap even, for contract work as the oil price appears to be rising against all possible odds.<br /><br />After Trump gets into the office and local legislation tightens so that exploration efforts are far away places from home, times may become uneven but hope gets stronger, as bills chase the unfortunate and make one probably offer unbearably cheaper rates to would be clients.<br /><br />Afterall, time and money are all in the imagination, some would say suffering is too? Nearly twelve months without alighting upon a working surface; funds, taxes and progeny are looking for support.<br /><br />Ready to rock and roll!<br />heres Cheers for '17!<br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-75592278618695738152015-08-08T01:53:00.000-07:002021-07-30T02:20:05.730-07:00Clastic Depositional Systems: A Source-to-Sink Perspective. A PESA courses and lunch August 2015<div class="clearfix _5x46" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.6182px; margin-bottom: 11px; zoom: 1;"><div class="_3dp _29k" style="display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; width: 10000px;"><div class="_6a" style="display: inline-block;"><div class="_6a _6b" style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;"><h5 class="_5pbw _11dd" data-ft="{"tn":"C"}" style="color: #141823; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px 0px 2px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 55px 0px 0px;"><div class="fwn fcg" style="color: #9197a3; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 15.456px;">PESA VIC/Tas Branch Short Course -</span><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 15.456px;"> </span><br style="color: #141823; line-height: 15.456px;" /><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 15.456px;">Clastic Depositional Systems: A Source-to-Sink Perspective</span></span></div><div class="fwn fcg" style="color: #9197a3; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"><br /></div><div class="fwn fcg" style="color: #9197a3; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="fwb fcg" data-ft="{"tn":"k"}" style="color: #9197a3; font-weight: bold;">Tony Ford Geo Con Pty.Ltd.</span></div></h5><h5 class="_5pbw _11dd" data-ft="{"tn":"C"}" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px 0px 2px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 55px 0px 0px;"><div class="fwn fcg" style="color: #9197a3;"><div class="clearfix _5x46" style="color: #141823; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.6182px; margin-bottom: 11px; zoom: 1;"><div class="_3dp _29k" style="display: table-cell; vertical-align: top; width: 10000px;"><div class="_6a" style="display: inline-block;"><div class="_6a _6b" style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="_5pcp" style="color: #9197a3; position: relative;"><span class="fsm fwn fcg"><a class="_5pcq" href="https://www.facebook.com/ADFordGeo/posts/812731842175567" style="color: #9197a3; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="">6 August at 16:00</a></span> · <a aria-label="Public" class="uiStreamPrivacy inlineBlock fbStreamPrivacy fbPrivacyAudienceIndicator _5pcq" data-hover="tooltip" href="https://www.facebook.com/ADFordGeo?ref=hl#" role="button" style="color: #9197a3; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;"><i class="lock img sp_PawAcq-1W9F sx_ca2832" style="background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yS/r/iAEQeVS2OcT.png); background-position: -14px -200px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 122px 290px; bottom: -1px; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-bottom: -5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; width: 12px;"></i></a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="color: #141823; line-height: 1.38; overflow: hidden;"><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_55c5c139d460c0383644484" style="display: inline;"><div style="margin-bottom: 6px;">This week, I managed to get on a nice two day course in Melbourne, VIC:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">PESA VIC/Tas Branch Short Course -<br />Clastic Depositional Systems: A Source-to-Sink Perspective<br />Tuesday, August 4 & 5<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />Conducted by Mike Blum, of Kansas Uni. Kansas, USA.</span></div><div class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><div style="margin-bottom: 6px;">Twelve people attended this very interesting course, lively questions from the more academic side. The food was adequete, the coffee was a little boring.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">Mike has had a varied professional life between academia and industry, and presented the course in a interesting manner, the material was good, but a few more attributes to track down material used easily would have been a little more helpful.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">The material presented was given out on a little USB card- a great idea. There many pictures of Utah geology examples, and the videos presented were pretty good.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">I enjoyed and appreciated the vourse, as did the other attendees. It gave me new insights into seismic interpretations of both fluvial and marine deposits- rivers, fans and deltas will never look the same again from<span style="font-family: inherit;"> an aeroplane window!. <span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;">Sedimentology and geography, or GEOMORPHOLGY combined.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.38;">Highly recommended.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="fwn fcg" style="color: #9197a3;"><br /></div><div class="fwn fcg" style="color: #9197a3;"><span class="fwb fcg" data-ft="{"tn":"k"}" style="font-weight: bold;">Tony Ford Geo Con Pty.Ltd.</span></div></h5><div class="_5pcp" style="color: #9197a3; position: relative;"><span class="fsm fwn fcg"><a class="_5pcq" href="https://www.facebook.com/ADFordGeo/posts/812734082175343" style="color: #9197a3; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="">6 August at 16:03</a></span> · <a aria-label="Public" class="uiStreamPrivacy inlineBlock fbStreamPrivacy fbPrivacyAudienceIndicator _5pcq" data-hover="tooltip" href="https://www.facebook.com/ADFordGeo?ref=hl#" role="button" style="color: #9197a3; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; text-decoration: none; zoom: 1;"><i class="lock img sp_PawAcq-1W9F sx_ca2832" style="background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yS/r/iAEQeVS2OcT.png); background-position: -14px -200px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 122px 290px; bottom: -1px; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-bottom: -5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; width: 12px;"></i></a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; overflow: hidden;"><div style="margin-bottom: 6px;">PESA Vic/Tas Branch August Technical Lunch - The Mississippi Delta: Subsidence, Global Sea Level Rise, Sediment Supply and the Future<br />Wednesday, August 5 @ 12:00</div><div style="display: inline; margin-top: 6px;">I attended another presentation by Mike Blum, and appreciated this technical talk very much. The wine was g</div><span style="line-height: 1.38;">ood, the lunch not so much- but the format is changing, so we will see how that goes!</span></div><div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; overflow: hidden;"><span style="line-height: 1.38;"><br /></span></div><div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; overflow: hidden;"><span style="line-height: 1.38;"><br /></span></div><div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; overflow: hidden;"><span style="line-height: 1.38;">7 August 2015</span></div><div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; overflow: hidden;"><span style="line-height: 1.38;">An AAPG course was booked for the melbourne ICE AAPG/PESA conference in September.</span></div><div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; overflow: hidden;"><span style="line-height: 1.38;">And therefor I had to join as well. </span></div><div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; overflow: hidden;"><span style="line-height: 1.38;">But / And now the field trips are cancelled. Hmm, industry not going that well.</span></div><div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; overflow: hidden;"><span style="line-height: 1.38;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-59289629695147548702015-02-18T18:34:00.000-08:002021-07-30T23:13:57.759-07:00Slowing down<h2>Really Slowing Down</h2>And <a href="https://tone4rd.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/nope-not-all-there/" target="_blank">maybe </a> , <a href="http://portablevineyard.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">cleaning up</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-44247484627903775382015-02-16T21:44:00.000-08:002021-07-30T01:24:50.480-07:00The End<h2>End Of The Portable Vineyard</h2><div>Due to lack of interest, time and patience, the Portable Vineyard has been Pulled...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bJJ-QHxIi6Y/VOLUFXmudKI/AAAAAAAADmk/wB0Kbdng6A0/s1600/IMAG4678_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bJJ-QHxIi6Y/VOLUFXmudKI/AAAAAAAADmk/wB0Kbdng6A0/s1600/IMAG4678_resize.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AtwhD5k_R-8/VOLUFYbAxCI/AAAAAAAADmo/QcFPLbJeI8c/s1600/IMAG4679_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AtwhD5k_R-8/VOLUFYbAxCI/AAAAAAAADmo/QcFPLbJeI8c/s1600/IMAG4679_resize.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Disease, water,no time to properly care for it, a low yield this year and no interest anymore. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The winery apparatus is also on the way out. 2015 vintage not happening.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Crusher, destemmer sieve, a crap load of glass containers and large fermenting vats, ancillary gear and chemicals- all up for grabs if you live within 50km of Sale, Gippsland, Victoria, along with the pots, saucers and stakes... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Go for it people, it is fun at the time! The products are always good to try</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-6649963166873633802015-02-07T23:48:00.000-08:002021-07-30T02:21:09.679-07:00Woodside Work<h2>New Contract</h2><h3>Through Reservoir Dogs, the latest contract has been for Woodside Petroleum, both based in Perth.</h3><br />The operations Geologists are people I have worked with before, which makes the job that much more intense, you do not want to let old friends down!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Gz0xJBkeSo/VNcNcX8dSZI/AAAAAAAADl8/ZF7P1bxdur8/s1600/Woodside_HORZ_Col.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="40" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Gz0xJBkeSo/VNcNcX8dSZI/AAAAAAAADl8/ZF7P1bxdur8/s1600/Woodside_HORZ_Col.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />Peter Gibson from Reservoir Dogs cold called out of the blue as the Statoil contract was nearly through, but as it was only nearly through. I could not commit to immediate work that he had plainly immediately available- like in Victoria.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-atbdWii0jCI/VNcPGaPww4I/AAAAAAAADmM/ka5X-DndvLE/s1600/atwood-eagle.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="139" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-atbdWii0jCI/VNcPGaPww4I/AAAAAAAADmM/ka5X-DndvLE/s1600/atwood-eagle.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />However, Westwern Asutralia work was up for grabs shortly too,and as the Statoil work finished I grabbed the opportunity as soon as I could.<br /><br />This meant a HUET course,anther round of medical checkups. In Septmber, I caught a flight to Karratha via Perth from Melbourne, and ended up on the Semi-Sub Atwood Eagle.<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k4XQ2sCojMA/VNcTduuOZ8I/AAAAAAAADmU/jIrQS79cdsY/s1600/DeepwaterMillenium.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k4XQ2sCojMA/VNcTduuOZ8I/AAAAAAAADmU/jIrQS79cdsY/s1600/DeepwaterMillenium.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /><br />Next Well was on the <a href="http://www.shipspotting.com/ships/ship.php?imo=9180229" target="_blank">Deepwater Millenium</a> Drillship. This work is 90 minutes off Broome. A cyclone standby was had in town, and I found a new beer... Mango Beer by <a href="http://www.matsos.com.au/beer-and-cider/" target="_blank">Matsos</a>. Aside from that brief delay, I began work in January a well.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-80442730693594966412015-01-13T22:47:00.000-08:002021-07-30T01:24:50.982-07:00Wind<h2>Wind</h2><br />Now I know what the wind in a vineyard is really for.<br /><br />Along with dryness associated with the wind.<br /><br />Currently, mildews have gotten into the wines, I seem to have missed sprying in time to get rid of it.<br /><br />I am about to wreck the portable vineyard because time, disease and fruitlessness has passed by in a way I am annoyed enough with myselfto get rid of it.<br /><br />But the wind the last week has gotten rid of the dried and damaged leaves.<br /><br />Leaving sight of damaged and useless bunches, bare branches.<br /><br />The Pinot is the worst off, the Shiraz not so much.<br /><br />Being away when spraying is due is another reason the end is nigh. Small yield another.<br /><br />Another disaster like a few vintages ago, and lack of prevention activity, oh dear.<br /><br />The summer growth is poor, and the same with my ambition and dedication.<br /><br />There may be some fruit left to keep from the birds for a rum to be made only.<br /><br />The foxey Grapes are fine, and so too the established Shiraz.<br /><br />In fact the Foxey bushes are so full and healthy the vines are weighing down their supports.<br /><br />Fingers crossed for a nice little yield in a month or two.<br /><br />If I think it will be worth netting.<br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-49341094899417208942014-12-03T16:52:00.000-08:002014-12-03T16:52:04.764-08:00Nov 2014Nov 2014<br />
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Lost my father-in-law, a stalwart supporter for the family here for the last fourteen years.<br />
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Ken [KD] was a country boy through and through, born in the Mallee, with a stint in The Big Smoke around WW2 then back up north with his mum and older sisters to his dad's family.<br />
Apparently not a great time, but then In-Laws aren't perfect all the time.<br />
KD lost his dad on the Burma Railway during the war. Anyway, after highschool, he met Bev at work, hooked up, produced a family, and one day years later, one of their kids decided I was okay to have sprogs [kids] with...<br />
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After we lost Tarn, KD and Bev moved into a room with us [I was not moving the family to a new place anywhere else] to help me with the four kids. <br />
It was decided that I should return to the oilfield and bring home the bacon as there was some paid help for them.The helper became great friends. <br />
My sis-in-law Dee and Pete, had bought a house in town and commuted from LA for our summers when Pete had time off. Dee had a second girl by this time, so Ken and Bev had all their little eggs in the one town.<br />
Until Bev relapsed two years later and on Bev's advice, I left the oilfield mid 2002 and took up full time Dad At Home- DAH.<br />
Ken and Bev moved to a place just up the street, and then Bev departed this mortal coil, leaving me and Ken with the kids. <br />
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By 2004, we were a bit of a sad case overall: my brother's mother-in-law 1999, my pop in 2000, my wife 2000, my mother-in-law 2002, <i>her </i>sister 2002, my granma 2002, then Sav, Dee's eldest girl in 2004.<br />
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And time moves on, dragging sad little asses along, trying to get through, and I had Ken to help out. Many a home-brew stout was consumed back in 2001 and 2002. I would get back from a week long hitch and he and I would down a couple of long-necks and a few ciggies [that I had had to go without at work] and getting a hangover effect by dinner time...<br />
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We had wide ranging discussions on the world. Plenty of remedies, really. Well, at the time. Share prices, farming, oilfield, kids. The shed was a retreat.<br />
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A while after Bev had passed on, Ken met Brenda, and then married her a while after that. He was happy. Dee had bought a block of land on the edge of town overlooking a billabong, really nice, and built on it.<br />
KD and Brenda planned ship cruises, bought tickets, and then had to cancel twice. Hips and illnesses. KD even got WHOOPING COUGH at the grand old age of --- hmm-- late seventies I believe, it had taken the medical professionals longer than three months to diagnose it, so if he was ill already it did not help.<br />
This last year Brenda looked after the old boy as a previous condition he had on the lungs led to shortness of breath, the last few months was a lot of sitting around for home that he hated. His best friends even came down form the Mallee and The Big Smoke at The Melbourne Cup Weekend, so that was really good for him.<br />
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RIP Ken. A friend, not just a father and father in law.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-66754771016356297972014-11-12T08:14:00.000-08:002021-07-30T23:13:58.096-07:00Okay, we can get on a comet too<h2>Well. well Well</h2><h3>sorry geo joke</h3>But<br />Just think a little bit.<br />WE [the world?] have got to Mars <br /><br />AND NOW a comet!!<br /><br />I am sort of excited- a robot is landing on a COMET-<br /><br />well Hal- what can you say?<br /><br />'get offa me?'<br /><br />Don think so<br /><br />If you can wonder, a comet could be converted into a Interstellar vehicle with enuff oommph from commercial people in the future, why restrict funding in getting out of our Solar system, really, we all have had enough warnings that on the state of our economies<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/europe/2014/11/live-blog-rosetta-comet-landing?utm_campaign=email-news-latest&utm_source=eloqua" target="_blank">http://news.sciencemag.org/europe/2014/11/live-blog-rosetta-comet-landing?utm_campaign=email-</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/europe/2014/11/live-blog-rosetta-comet-landing?utm_campaign=email-news-latest&utm_source=eloqua" target="_blank">news-latest&utm_source=eloqua</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-76668832726756465692014-09-22T00:45:00.000-07:002021-07-30T23:13:58.422-07:00Speeding<h2>Speeding</h2><h3>At last!</h3> Have found some one to help with GPS logging unit for my speed-sailing windsurfing pastime down at Sandy Point, South Gippsland, Victoria. Well worth the ninety minute trip down this time!<br /><br />It has taken two years of procrastination, but finally used my GPS logger for sailing rather than just a now and again car or plane trip! Not a fad now fella!<br />Of course a little hiccup- the water proof pouch was not where I thought it was, but then a week later- it was in the sailing kit all along, bummer dude, but the plastic shopping bags used did a fine job, and with the unit stuck under my chin under the wetsuit, managed a fair velocity up to 27 knots in wind of 10 to 15 knots. Or up to 50 kmh! yay me, and that was with a 6.5m2 Severne sail, ah.<br /><br />Yes, ahh, the new gear has been nice and forgiving and good too.<br /><br />So I will have to get more time on the water, and maybe put myself on the GPS-Speedsailing board, all it takes is time and confidence.<br /><br />The jibing seems to be coming together again now, so that is good! If you take a close look, some runs end really well, some NOT.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pkp2aHwGoM4/VB_TYf8c0pI/AAAAAAAADlQ/RASyUoUIyP0/s1600/sewp182014%2Bsandy%2Bpoint%2B5%2Bbest%2Bruns.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pkp2aHwGoM4/VB_TYf8c0pI/AAAAAAAADlQ/RASyUoUIyP0/s1600/sewp182014%2Bsandy%2Bpoint%2B5%2Bbest%2Bruns.JPG" height="179" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nGJec4lz73A/VB_TY8PLGGI/AAAAAAAADlU/YHvQSeyWRYo/s1600/sewp182014%2Bsandy%2Bpoint%2Bgoogle%2Bearth%2Bday%2Bsailing%2B21%2Bkm.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nGJec4lz73A/VB_TY8PLGGI/AAAAAAAADlU/YHvQSeyWRYo/s1600/sewp182014%2Bsandy%2Bpoint%2Bgoogle%2Bearth%2Bday%2Bsailing%2B21%2Bkm.JPG" height="187" width="320" /></a></div><br />Location and tracking- 20 kms in 25 runs less than an hour I think, still have to fine tune the GPSResults tables! tracks- red hi velocity, blue, beach walking... scale at below tracks in knots<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2167760605226079769" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="" /></a></div><br />next- will get a meteorological station just for this beach so I know from where it blows at what strength- and that will be first weekend November! Speed week usually on then at Sandy Point, but no one else has thought to install one like <a href="http://tone4rd.wordpress.com/deary-me/imag2450_resize/" target="_blank">here</a>.<span id="goog_2142374078"></span><span id="goog_2142374079"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><br /><br /><h3><span style="text-align: center;">And the ranking of the days sailing</span> </h3>GPSResults V6.123<br />filename: I:\GPSResultsV6\New folder\2014\sandypointSep14\ADFORD2011_103200745_20140918_104159 - Copy.SBN<br />altitude(s) not considered<br />accumulated Doppler speeds<br />cubic spline integration (10/20s), one run per leg<br />total time: 34min, total length: 15.307km<br /><br />max:<br /> time m [knots]<br />11:40:39 14.1 27.428+/-1.011<br />13:02:57 13.6 26.514+/-1.108<br />13:12:30 13.6 26.436+/-1.361<br />13:15:27 13.6 26.359+/-1.322<br />13:08:50 13.5 26.203+/-1.283<br />average[2]: 49.950km/h 26.971knots<br />average[3]: 49.620km/h 26.793knots<br />average[5]: 49.241km/h 26.588knots<br /><br />100m:<br /> time m [knots]<br />11:40:43 108.0 26.235+/-1.161<br />13:12:37 104.3 25.355+/-1.266<br />13:08:53 104.0 25.265+/-1.273<br />13:18:10 100.4 24.403+/-1.227<br />11:37:58 104.6 22.590+/-1.037<br />average[2]: 47.772km/h 25.795knots<br />average[3]: 47.445km/h 25.618knots<br />average[5]: 45.873km/h 24.769knots<br /><br />250m:<br /> time m [knots]<br />13:12:50 259.4 24.015+/-1.217<br />11:40:43 250.7 23.210+/-1.114<br />12:52:53 254.3 21.489+/-1.130<br />11:27:52 259.3 21.003+/-0.953<br />12:01:24 256.8 20.798+/-1.008<br />average[2]: 43.731km/h 23.613knots<br />average[3]: 42.419km/h 22.905knots<br />average[5]: 40.935km/h 22.103knots<br /><br />500m:<br /> time m [knots]<br />12:53:04 502.0 20.331+/-1.125<br />11:28:15 501.2 20.298+/-0.974<br />11:58:42 503.7 18.475+/-1.061<br />13:20:36 501.7 18.058+/-1.218<br />12:58:32 503.4 17.790+/-1.140<br />average[2]: 37.623km/h 20.315knots<br />average[3]: 36.487km/h 19.701knots<br />average[5]: 35.170km/h 18.990knots<br /><br />2s:<br /> time m [knots]<br />11:40:40 28.0 27.243+/-1.079<br />13:02:57 27.1 26.339+/-1.176<br />13:15:27 27.0 26.271+/-1.380<br />13:12:31 27.0 26.232+/-1.351<br />13:08:51 26.8 26.048+/-1.273<br />average[2]: 49.617km/h 26.791knots<br />average[3]: 49.296km/h 26.618knots<br />average[5]: 48.942km/h 26.427knots<br /><br />10s:<br /> time m [knots]<br />11:40:43 131.6 25.573+/-1.182<br />13:08:56 128.9 25.055+/-1.265<br />13:12:40 128.6 24.998+/-1.245<br />13:18:11 125.3 24.355+/-1.226<br />11:38:01 115.5 22.454+/-1.026<br />average[2]: 46.882km/h 25.314knots<br />average[3]: 46.687km/h 25.209knots<br />average[5]: 45.350km/h 24.487knots<br /><br />20s:<br /> time m [knots]<br />13:12:50 247.0 24.003+/-1.216<br />11:40:43 239.5 23.281+/-1.115<br />12:52:51 223.3 21.707+/-1.143<br />11:27:53 218.2 21.204+/-0.971<br />12:01:24 217.1 21.103+/-1.010<br />average[2]: 43.785km/h 23.642knots<br />average[3]: 42.591km/h 22.997knots<br />average[5]: 41.225km/h 22.260knots<br /><br /><br />alpha 500/50m:<br /> time m [knots]<br />13:12:27 494.9 16.034+/-1.509<br />13:13:42 497.2 13.612+/-1.386<br />13:16:32 468.0 13.578+/-1.514<br />13:00:05 498.4 8.497+/-1.203<br />12:57:24 214.0 3.354+/-1.290<br />average[2]: 27.452km/h 14.823knots<br />average[3]: 26.684km/h 14.408knots<br />average[5]: 20.400km/h 11.015knots<br /><div><br /></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-62493530711061262852014-09-04T03:28:00.000-07:002021-07-30T23:13:58.751-07:00Lost me phone...Lost me <a href="http://tone4rd.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/whew-thanks-aldi/" target="_blank">phone</a>...<br />as put in at the other blog in case you missed it!<br /><br />And it was funny much later i tell you!<br /><br />cheers<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
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Their Year Nine reports al la NAPLAN came today, they are above their peers for the year they are in- looks like single dads can have some success. </div>
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My boys are struggling on in the big circus of Out Of Home- government and big business are losing my confidence- I hope that the boys have dreams that can be fulfilled without help from them.</div>
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It is really weird how the governments are cutting help for the unemployed while big business are having to cut employees. Go Figure.</div>
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This was a pressie from kRudd the other year or two. made after #2Son left a front tooth in the garden in a BMX accident...</div>
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Filled the small trailer!</div>
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Now been disappeared for the rubbish tip/dump/recycling center- with help of #1Son! </div>
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Yay- some room in the front yard again, especially with giving a front yard tree a severe trim. More room for the Portable Vineyard Pots!!</div>
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I had offered it to a few other parents- might have been a bit too much- no takers. Thank you to the government of the time, kept my kid and his friends off the streets for a few years, just close enough to be noisy and beneath my nose.</div>
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Don't yoy like the new yard- the small box bushes are ringing a new path. One day. </div>
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http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-65176734947839834382014-09-04T02:56:00.000-07:002021-07-30T01:24:51.278-07:00The start of the 2015 vintage in the Portable Vineyard<h2>The start of the 2015 vintage in the Portable Vineyard</h2><div>Ah there we go- budding time</div><div><br /></div><div>Spring budding!</div><div>Looks like budding started mid August this year- Pinot was opening in the third week of August, below. Hmm.</div><div>The potted Shiraz, a few, started budding by first week of September.</div><div>The older six on the fence have not budded as yet though.</div><div>All the mobile vines moved 4 Sep, two lines- 48 pots of established and 9 babies of Shiraz.</div><div>Eleven of the Pinot.</div><div>Organising the irrigation now- small sprays to each pot. Still need a few more plumbing bits and pieces, and if I go away for a week or two, got an automatic irrigating thingamajig too.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i4J9Ri2CEwM/VAgyUhp5DzI/AAAAAAAADjE/0nhaBBZ0hEU/s1600/IMAG4534_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i4J9Ri2CEwM/VAgyUhp5DzI/AAAAAAAADjE/0nhaBBZ0hEU/s1600/IMAG4534_resize.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a>Pinot</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cc_pBNI1VfI/VAgyU-5B1WI/AAAAAAAADjM/xXFNbfK9TKI/s1600/IMAG4537_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cc_pBNI1VfI/VAgyU-5B1WI/AAAAAAAADjM/xXFNbfK9TKI/s1600/IMAG4537_resize.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a>Shiraz</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And- to recycle stuff- the still was fed a bunch of off old reds this last week to produce about 10l of spirit for port or sherry making. A few expensive Rockford Basket Press bottles that were Not Drinkable [2000, 2001!] and some other home mades that were also Not Drinkable - all emptied into the trusty spirit maker...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of the old bottles that was actually okay and finished- on my own- over two nights- below. My friend Harry was also searching/making room in his cellar too- looks like another batch next week for the still.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b2OeLfnkmbc/VAgyU8s6dbI/AAAAAAAADjI/HRM8cOTiGw8/s1600/IMAG4532_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b2OeLfnkmbc/VAgyU8s6dbI/AAAAAAAADjI/HRM8cOTiGw8/s1600/IMAG4532_resize.jpg" height="320" width="180" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Other wines that were tried lately- </div><div>A Wine Society CabSav2000- into the still.<br />All of last year's wine made- into the still- 30 liters! Not good. Will try to make a fortified wine from what is left of the garage foxy grape wine this year [20l]- it does not taste too bad, but some syrup and spirit may perk it up heaps.<br />So- This years production- all but 20 of the 40l- INTO THE STILL, Bummer dudes- hopefully the brandy/rum at the end will be appreciated. No. It will be!<br />anyway</div><div>A 2013 Rockford Alicante- YUMMY!</div><div>A Rockford Pasket Press Shiraz- 2002- Yummy!</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, that's all for the The start of the 2015 vintage in the Portable Vineyard during the start of the 2014 Spring Downunder.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-64490557088218707742014-08-11T03:36:00.000-07:002021-07-30T01:24:51.575-07:00August '14 and the vines are budding<h2>August '14 and the vines are budding</h2><div>Hmm, the vines in the backyard are budding, as of the 11th of August.</div><div><br /></div><div>interesting</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-42334711303419261692014-07-30T04:52:00.001-07:002021-07-30T23:13:59.341-07:00"dear sir, I cannot but will try..."<h2>"dear sir, I cannot but will try..."</h2><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i><u>paraphrased from a daily paper, sorry...</u></i></b></span><br /><br /></div><div>I could have had a "free uni education" after high school. [true]</div><div>I could have got into a okay job with that degree. [also true]</div><div>I took time out of the Oil patch for a pretty good reason. [true]</div><div>I put up with jibes [or 'those' looks] of chickening out [maybe true].</div><div>I took time to raise kids without a partner at the tax payers expense [true] so that four future taxpayers would contribute to the nations' GDP after a good education. [hope it comes true]</div><div><br /></div><div>Now these days to get a job, you need to be at least 15yrs old to leave home to get a job stacking shelves, or pouring someones else's coffee for a buck. This is all that's left these days! No real trade teaching until 17 or 18! If you can get it, or if you do, can hack it!</div><div><br /></div><div>If you do stay on to finish high school, job opportunities are nearly the same as above. If an apprenticeship comes up, it may not "pay well enough" to keep the phablet generation going- the pub and friends are pretty insistent on company, and the job could be lost due to lack of interest or funds available to afford the newest phone, as there is still a government support scheme... Or was.</div><div><br /></div><div>No manufacturing cars, socks, pants, shirts or even stainless steel plant jobs are around for the growing population of phablet holders - X gen or Y gen or whatever comes next. It is cheaper to move that stuff overseas according to the boardroom boys and girls and the ever venerated bottom line. Or until their own GDP rises and their kids are left to pour coffee...</div><div><br /></div><div>Of course further education can be found, the cheap end for plumbers or high end for lawyers. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[we always need those two people- true?]</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Really?</div><div><br /></div><div>But now because the tightass end of town, the [Wall St?] "failures" have to keep their Mcmansions of course, lowered government incomes [less of the population paying tax as unemployment goes up and pay rates down for the rest] that held the purses for the cheap further education has actually tightened up the disbursements to that end, so that the kiddies get put on "the drip" to pay any further education costs back, once the threshold income has been attained... Once it was practically free...</div><div><br /></div><div>Which also that means the lower end of the pay-scale people cannot afford the low end education, or even the middle class education type - accountants, philosophers, nurses and other professionals are being imported- meaning there are brain drains around the world. To here...</div><div><br /></div><div>The point being "dear sir, I cannot but will try..." letters are being posted. </div><div><br /></div><div>Lots apparently.</div><div><br /></div><div>Yes. The pollies are sick and tired of paying out dole money, and sick and tired of bailing out car and shirt makers, and wont pay a paramedic or train driver to stick around all day waiting for customers... </div><div><br /></div><div>Apparently "the people" are sick and tired of those things too. </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">And some are tired of the tide of migrants coming in to take "our kids' job". </span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Hmm. Never give a sucker a chance, mon. Hope the whingers are not second or third or twentieth generation descendents of immigrants either...</span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Share the loot mon, c'mon!</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Betchya heaps they are Not, especially if they have teen aged kids to support and educate.</div><div><br /></div><div>The notion that there are heaps of jobs out there is flawed. These days.</div><div>The notion that education will get you a job is flawed too. These days.</div><div><br /></div><div>Certain pollies thinks <b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i><u><strike>[PS- WILL BE MAKING]</strike></u></i></span></b> that 250,000 odd kids (15-24) SHOULD BE applying forty times a month for jobs [they probably cannot fit into] AND THAT IT cannot be too hard, AND I think it will be a fact soon. Read the paper. As this is only an opinion, and having been there and done that, there are probably a bit more than that out there that cannot afford a ticket to even get a forklift licence let alone afford a bar keepers ticket to serve beer. poor bastards</div><div><br /></div><div>And some company owners and pollies [both types that that have been silver spoon fed and breast fed til they left uni, in my opinion] think there are heaps of jobs. In the desert. Along the roadside. Down at the rubbish dump.<br /><br />If you are keen and can go without the phablet and telly and don't want to buy a house with cash [not in five years now but ten instead, mind], because sacrificing time from family like they could a few years ago is what they will have to do. That is, if they can afford a partner!</div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe that is where HR comes in. A conspiracy theory - sure. They get to read the lots and lots of job applications and sort out the cans and cannots and would nots from the cretins and "no way man!" types, and maintain a certain percentage of success in catching the right fish for the job. </div><div><br /></div><div>Until the computers with artificial intelligence replaces THEM. Soon I reckon. Who need people skills anymore? Really.</div><div><br /></div><div>productivity</div><div>computers</div><div>robotics </div><div><br /></div><div>I think I dislike that first word. How long does it take to make a spear or tyre or a list? 'Cos the second word joined with the third means that one person can do a lot of other peoples' jobs, meaning the unemployed pool tide rises and productivity by less involved goes up... Ah, maybe that's the secret?</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh dear, ranting to the converted or the naive? Or the spell bound? My current job aint writing for a living- research means I would never get pen to paper! Then, my job is one of those that is like the <strike>naomi campbell</strike> fashion model type jobs, if it aint paying that much mate, then I am not getting out of bed that week. </div><div><br /></div><div>Which is a bit tough. or rough? I had to accept the rate, I need to put the gels into a better school before something happens at the government school... And the rate is soooo much better than the previous day job or even the last self employed but government subsidized jobby. </div><div><br /></div><div>So back to the "dear sir, I cannot but will try..." and the forty job letters and associated CVs PER MONTH that the poor bastards have to do now just to get some government handout in this employment environment where there really is bugger all jobs... there are local government landscaping jobs. Even road improvements. But no manufacturing- for example, public transport, most vehicles will be imported, the rails imported, the software is imported... </div><div><br /></div><div>maybe it is a postal conspiracy, "dear sir, I cannot but will try..."<br />BTW- I saw a dpco on Gre Vidal th eother night- boy, is he into conspiracy theories!!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-988662631305746282014-07-30T04:52:00.000-07:002021-07-30T23:13:59.075-07:00Woopie trails in the desert and old music compilation cassettes<h2>Woopie trails in the desert and old music compilation cassettes</h2><br />Before the last job started I found and put in the van old music compilation cassettes. Thus, I was in a travelling time machine, as each was played once through in the van. At least eight tapes I think- it was a eight hour trek to the Other Littler Big Smoke. That was a few weeks ago. "A Wednesday in September". The tapes were all from the eighties, late night recordings of favorite album songs back then, after a night out with Tarn or the boys and sleep was too far away. Tracks from Men At Work, Spit Enz, Beach Boys, Talking Heads... In other words, a few. Trouble was, being tapes, no fast forward...<br /><br />The woopie we are using to get to the desert and back has radio and a CD player with no MP3 connection. And no auto fridge [for the <strike>beer </strike>cold drinks.] The trip up and around the desert was not that boring, my friend Doug has a history in the oilpatch going back a long way, so many tales are etched in the back of my mind.<br /><br />September. That's a long while ago, and the kids have missed me. Really? #2Son has nearly finished last year of high school and last exams, telling me "I <i>am </i>studying", other people worrying that it does not look like it. Even If I Was Home, I am more than sure he would be telling me that same thing anyway, whether he had or not. Being a teenager once, I remember that.<br /><br />And I am up here, for now, or longer? There was much to-ingand fro-ing on progress the last few days, will this be done or that. One choice was an sxtra ten days- not taken finally. Whew.<br /><br />I have been at the desert job for so long now, I am getting used to the sub-luxurious living conditions and a the far off life of being the dependable single dad is fading away... Wow, more than that now, the Melbourne Cup is on as I write. Weird life. Not a housework thang to do. Nice. In a small way.<br /><div><br /></div>ciggies, medictns<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-52595573629965425032014-07-25T04:45:00.000-07:002021-07-30T00:33:21.426-07:00Ready For Offshore Work Now<h2>Ready For Offshore Work Now</h2><div>This week, completed another medical in order to get a certificate to get offshore work, IE a Huet!</div><div><br /></div><div>Helicopter Underwater Escape Traing</div><div>aka</div><div>BOISET which includes</div><div><ul><li> Safety Induction </li><li>Helicopter Safety & Escape (Including EBS)</li><li>Sea Survival</li><li>Firefighting and Self Rescue</li></ul></div><div>yay me, and for small fee, with like, no pain, no gain.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks to support team there and those others out there or back here who look after me like Pete n Loise, Diana, without them, hard to get back into it.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-55243539858189894582014-07-21T22:04:00.000-07:002021-07-30T00:33:21.723-07:00Statoil Campaign Southern Georgina Basin 2014<h2>Statoil Campaign Southern Georgina Basin 2014</h2><h3>Tony Ford Geo Con PL Contract with Stat nearly finished</h3><div>Well Well Well Well Well</div><div><br /></div><div>Yes, five wells in the Georgina as a basic Wellsite Geologist is done<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> for the moment, final invoices awaiting.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>The campaign, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">as it was called,</span> required a geology degree person or two for five wells in the Southern Georgina Basin for <a href="http://www.statoil.com/en/about/worldwide/pages/australia.aspx" target="_blank">Statoil</a>, of Norway, to monitor the various services required for obtaining new information about the basin: mudlogging, cores, drill cuttings, wireline data. Descriptions. Measuring. Photographing. Reports. All that gear. And Packing the core, taking some core for specialty analysis. And all that stuff too.</div><div><br /></div><div>The drilling engineer team and other support people were good, some were contract people like myself that I had worked with before, some Adelaide office/Canadian/US and Norwegian. My off sider, Mike, was new to this area, whereas I had been up the way many years before- <span style="font-size: xx-small;">I think That Counts As Prior Knowledge Of The Area.<i> Maybe. </i></span>Mike and I took turns spudding and completing the wells to share the load as the schedule was pretty tight. Stat runs a tight ship, their personnel were obviously professional and the job undertaken with a degree of seriousness that meant business- no prisoners taken! My/our OpsGeo was good, dang good, old Griff had been doing work up that way even before I started there! I was glad at times that he was on the other end of the phone, along with Linn and Rolf above him.</div><div><br /></div><div>The campaign, five wells, during the second quarter 2014, ended with a heap of nice cuttings and cores, logs and other data for the town office exploration geos to pore over, and make at last a case for <i>something </i>to produce <i>something </i>from in the Southern Georgina Basin.</div><div><br /></div><div>As usual, cannot be specific about anything remember! And no pics, sorry, of Anything allowed.</div><div><br /></div><div>The service company guys were all great to work with: <a href="http://www.slb.com/services/drilling/mud_logging.aspx" target="_blank">Geoservices</a>, <a href="http://www.corpro-group.com/" target="_blank">Corepro </a>and <a href="http://www.weatherford.com/Products/Evaluation/OpenHoleServices/" target="_blank">Weatherford </a>Logging. Anything that needed to be done for us was done, I cannot thank them enough for being supportive to practically a newbie! <a href="http://www.energy-drilling.com/energy-drilling-our-business/our-fleet/schramm-txde-200.html" target="_blank">The Drilling company EDA and the rig EDA2 </a>were not a bad lot, and the catering crew, sometime were Superb in the dinner and lunch offerings. I sort of like the camp structure- all on wheels <span style="font-size: xx-small;">nearly, but I think that cabins on wheels may rock the place too much when using the stair access. One thing I will have to get used to is the <a href="http://www.schramminc.com/products/txd" target="_blank">Schramm </a>style single drilling mast, great at drilling, but like watching paint dry while tripping I tell you. Anyway- as I said,</span> everybody did a fine job overall, and I think Stat should be happy with the job done in the time allotted.</div><div><br /></div><div>Myself, I think I managed time, people, information, travelling and reports rather well- the OpsGeo might slightly disagree there though- always suggesting that <b>that </b>might be better as <b>this</b> sort of thing- as they all do! Spelling, order, time of deposition- Think Tony Think. Yeah- carbonates from the Cambrian are not what I was used to at all, but, now, No Worries Mate. And the bank account for my new company Tony Ford Geo Con PL, is brimming, so I better thank <a href="https://www.fencon.com.au/" target="_blank">Fendley Consultants</a> for putting my company on their books.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's hoping that my performance as a basic wellsite geologist on the Statoil Campaign Southern Georgina Basin 2014 will get me in the front door next time they start up a campaign here in Oz!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Statoil Campaign Southern Georgina Basin 2014</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-51699789941810182072014-06-14T02:48:00.000-07:002014-07-25T17:46:15.985-07:00Update winter 2014<h2>
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The kids have not seen too much of me- because I am trying to do the right thing and Work for a change for real Money. </div>
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Not like the girls from the 80's where they had to have the promise of ten thousand dollars a day before they would go to "work"!</div>
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Nah, the smell of the contract's ink drying has some aphrodisiacal meaning to it. Don't it?</div>
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The accountant and the bank are happier for me too.</div>
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The gels are wanting a new car. They do? "this one!" "no, that one!"</div>
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Argh, and getting the money has turned difficult, looks like a cash purchase instead, just to annoy the bank!</div>
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Even so, it has to remembered that the gels and me also need or should have, a new tin roof as well.</div>
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And a water heater- it is leaking too... Water Water every where but where it should be...</div>
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Activities--- A trip to Geelong to see the folks and on to Ballarat to catch up with the brother's crowd recently and a few bottles of Rockford reds- a nice weekend. Dinner with three kids at a nice place, and a trip to Lakes Entrance. Sea gulls... A birthday night out with the gels before last work trip. </div>
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Upset some people recently- is that old age? A couple of things forgotten and it turns out- rough. But it was important- and I never gave it a thought at the time, just proceeded like I thought everyone knew what was going on. No they did not. Hmm. Never done it before, probably will not do that again. Cutting things fine? Too much on the plate? Not enough socialising or just being left out of that loop? Seems like the last, but is that just paranoia? Whatever, not funny dude. Hilarious long after? I certainly hope so. Will have to be more organised, and wanted/needed? Would be easy for some- the show offs. And then not remembering opening a package and listing the contents? Cannot recall the day or date, but I did read the manual. Hmm, interesting- of course the packaging was 100%. Wasn't it? Hmph. Movin' on baby.</div>
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Time to catch up on people too, those pretty close are at phone and email distance at the moment- which is weird- world closing in and getting smaller- although when on a rig in the desert- that's life anyway. Maybe I am recreating it at home- never leaving- just shopping and reading and cleaning etc etc. </div>
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On to life and it's pleasures, of which there has been some- The boys seem to be coping. Good to hear that they have little jobs- but cannot hear the ambition through the coping. The gels are doing well, teacher's luv em, reports are okay, cannot see mensa kids but they are certainly Daddy's little girls!</div>
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Had some more deep thoughts about life and coping, but not occurring to me now- maybe I can add them to this page later. The MS by the way is being kept at bay, but my right leg seems wonky and weak at times- maybe a severe lack of working out and other crap like that. I do know that at some time I will have to pay for a personal trainer to get me motivated and fit again- going alone to the gym years ago did no good at all. </div>
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The parcel and lack of remembering- the missing parts weer there all the time, just not obvious, what a bummer for the dude searching- under his nose, and he has a rather large English proboscis too.</div>
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http://daggydad.blogspot.com.au/</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043497554386957209.post-78889629432034560762014-06-14T00:27:00.000-07:002021-07-30T01:24:51.871-07:00Winter 2014<h2>Winter 2014</h2><br /><h3>The portable Vineyard- and Winter 2014. </h3>The pruning was done two weeks ago, end of Autumn with 99.99% of the leaves dropped.<br /><br />But! What is surprising are some new buds!<br /><br />What does this mean?<br /><br />An anomaly I hope- spring was still a full season away!<br /><br />This year the pruning was severe and not- leaving at least a full cane for a few of the tubs and planted vines. Let's see what is croppable next vintage, although the Foxy Wine Vine will indubitably be prolific with no outside help at all!<br /><br />There was some replenishing of stakes- rotten ones removed and in place a plastic coated steel tube.<br /><br />No more trying to get cuttings going- last year's did not survive the lack of watering that #2Son was supposed to be doing while I was away.<br /><br />The irrigation system I dreamed up a year ago has yet to be implemented, but then so was replanting all the tubs into the yard has not been done either, but now- four years from now we may be out of this place- and I do want to keep a few of the plants, if not all.<br /><br />Winter 2014 may be very different from the last few winters- mild in fact? The last vintage was not bad, but I think that if I can only get 6 litres off fifty plants, maybe time to let the Portable Vineyard go...<br /><br /><h3>Wine tasting for Winter 2014</h3><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;">After a disappointing opening of 2000 and 2001 vintages of Basket Press bottles from </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=166153030066679" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rockfords/166153030066679" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Rockfords</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"> in the Barossa Valley [South Australia] the last few weeks, and luckily the last of the cases too. The last bottle of the <b>1996</b> and one of the 2002 did NOT disappoint AT ALL! Maybe a vertical tasting of what is in the cellar over the next few months is in line to make sure I am not keeping flat brown wines down there! So- who wants to do some small vertical tastings with me? 2001 to 2012?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Sharing a 2002 <i>and </i>a 2003 in Buninyong with my brother and sister-in-law recently was a pleasant experience.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">In any case, I will be definitely going through the rest of the cases in the cellar by the time the Winter 2014 </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 20px;">is over with help or not! The Basket Press of 1998 consumed last night was good, still some life, but probably not the $220 worth that I saw on an auction site later.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://tone-in-oz.blogspot.com/
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