Monthly Archives: March 2009
Herod’s Temple
This is cool. The 30 year time frame makes me cringe.
Funeral in Angola
We passed a funeral today. Unlike in the US, an Angola funeral procession includes standing in the road with knives, sticks and axes and asking every passing car for money. I didn’t know this and got a little worried about … Continue reading
Training Africans
Part of my job duties include training locals to do my job. The problem is, I’m training idiots. We have formulas we use for the job. A common need is changing the hydrostatic. Hydrostatic is the weight of a column … Continue reading
Back from offshore
And just some random thoughts I wrote down. I learned something about Russia today. Only Russian Men can handle explosives. It is against the law for a woman to handle explosives in Russia. I’ve been in a few post Soviet … Continue reading