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We have a short meeting during the day but only those who are actually on shift are expected to be there. If they wanted me to be there off shift I'm putting in OT. I'm usually on nights so it's rare I'm in the meetings. I try to be on when I am on days though as it's a good way to catch up with anything going on that I might not know of.
 
I did a number on my Oneplus 10T somehow and ended up with a piece of the screen lifting up and a nice swirly scratch on it. Damnit.

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I got a weird email today at work written in legal gibberish, by either an attorney who is old and a bit addled or by a complete idiot. The contents don’t really matter for this story. I looked the writer up. He had a neighbor’s car illegally towed back in the late 90s. The neighbor sued him and won. The court ordered repayment of the tow fee and attorney fees. The guy never paid. The neighbor went back to court in December and got a summary judgment for over $25k and a lien on the guy’s house. Play stupid games…
 
I switched over to Proton for email a week ago or so. And Proton Drive. I migrated most of my email accounts over. I tried to rely on Proton Calendar but it's not ready for the big leagues. Syncing with google calendars is slow and unreliable. But at least I got my emails out of Google's clutches for now. I'm sure Proton calendar will get upgraded as well. But that made me sad it wasn't ready yet.
 
I didn't know about the time change until around 11pm last night 😛. I woke up an hour late and sat down to watch tv at 11 instead of 10. Thank goodness a youtube video mentioned daylight savings time or I would still be an hour behind.
 
I accidentally blew up one side of my bench power supply. Had a brain fart and accidentally fed 48v into it. Was charging a 48v battery pack but the psu only goes up to 32v so had it set to 27v and was doing one side of the pack at once. While moving the leads over to other side I had a brain fart and did only one lead at a time so in the process I ended up feeding the full battery pack into into it. There was lots of sparks and smoke and now it smells bad.

Going to look at it another time, hopefully I blew something simple like a mosfet or something and I can just replace it. That was a lot of sparks though... 😱 Whoops.
 
I'm not sure if it was the time change or what but the last 2 days commuting in to work I've had to deal with traffic. Not LA-like traffic, a couple of stop and go's on the freeway whereas prior to this week I've never had any issues. My coworker who drives the same route made the same comment this morning.
 
Work is being done on the fire alarm system at my apartment building.

The alarms are randomly going off for 20 to 30 seconds,then they quit.

So annoying.
 
My pajama pants stink. They came from the thriftshop, and they use fabric softener or something when they wash the stuff. They have a strong industrial floral type smell. I got them last summer, but haven't touched them til this week. The smell didn't diminish a bit, and they even make my sheets stink. Looking forward to washing them this weekend.
 
The places I used to be far from are gone. - Lhasa de Sela

I got a call from an old guy who was trying to find a mining claim he and his father worked in 1950. The guy was six years old at the time and remembered it being south of town and there being lots of spectacular cactus. Armed with nothing but the date and his father's name, I found the claim filing in the county records. Not to brag, but I am really good at finding this stuff. Anyway, after listening to him describe his adventures with his dad and how impressed he was with the desert, I hated to tell him what his memory looks like now.


Yellow star marks the approximate location of the 20 acre claim. The pit is about 1 x 2 miles wide and ~1800 feet deep.
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IronWing said:
The places I used to be far from are gone. - Lhasa de Sela

I got a call from an old guy who was trying to find a mining claim he and his father worked in 1950. The guy was six years old at the time and remembered it being south of town and there being lots of spectacular cactus. Armed with nothing but the date and his father's name, I found the claim filing in the county records. Not to brag, but I am really good at finding this stuff. Anyway, after listening to him describe his adventures with his dad and how impressed he was with the desert, I hated to tell him what his memory looks like now.


Yellow star marks the approximate location of the 20 acre claim. The pit is about 1 x 2 miles wide and ~1800 feet deep.
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Pretty cool. At my old gig I ran our Surface Mine program at the county and had to conduct annual inspections. I've never seen a pit that big. We had 10-14 sites I'd have to go out to, but they were mainly sand and gravel. A lot of dredging for river rock that was used for road base. We had a few others, primarily gypsum that was mostly used for soil amendment. That'd be a cool quarry to check out.
 
thestrangebrew1 said:
Pretty cool. At my old gig I ran our Surface Mine program at the county and had to conduct annual inspections. I've never seen a pit that big. We had 10-14 sites I'd have to go out to, but they were mainly sand and gravel. A lot of dredging for river rock that was used for road base. We had a few others, primarily gypsum that was mostly used for soil amendment. That'd be a cool quarry to check out.
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You can tour the copper mine just to the north; it’s about the same size.

Discovery – Asarco

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We have a fairly large pit in town that has been growing over the years. The google satellite view is pretty impressive to see. We used to have a mine tour back in the day, actually around where the pit is. There was an old mine they would bring you right in and there was even an area where they let you pan for gold and if you found any you got to keep it. Now all that is gone. There is a lookout area where you can look inside the pit and take pictures though.

www.google.ca

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
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Red Squirrel said:
We have a fairly large pit in town that has been growing over the years. The google satellite view is pretty impressive to see. We used to have a mine tour back in the day, actually around where the pit is. There was an old mine they would bring you right in and there was even an area where they let you pan for gold and if you found any you got to keep it. Now all that is gone. There is a lookout area where you can look inside the pit and take pictures though.

www.google.ca

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
www.google.ca www.google.ca
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Weird seeing housing so close to the west and the mobile home park to the south.
 
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