been out of internet range for a week and it feels good. Volunteered to help a friend with fieldwork on the west coast. She's halfway through a PhD in environmental geochemistry, all about mitigating mining impacts on the environment etc. Ended up at some interesting field-sites, playing with portable XRFs, exploring where da gold at. Anyway, turns out i'm going to be paid for the week i spent out there. Maybe it's a form of compensation for all the arsenic i probably ate. First non-poker income in close on two years. Funny.
Guess i'll play poker again tomorrow or something. I have a couple of earthquake refugees from Christchurch staying at the moment, friends whose place is likely to be without electricity or drains for another few weeks. That city got fucked up. And a bunch of people got killed. Kinda puts the occasional cooler in perspective
