Not too too much has happened since the last post, but since my two companion bloggers have admirably put up posts this evening, I shall follow suit.
La Selva’s atmosphere changes dramatically on the weekend. The local project assistants are absent and all of us researchers tend to be satisfied with a lesser amount of work. Half field days, heavy afternoon porch time. I stayed up the latest I have yet last night mostly chit-chatting on the porch and eating sugar-coated almonds.
A fine week is shaping up with some all-out coring tomorrow, aiming for 58 trees, or the remainder of what has been tagged. Tuesday morning will be devoted to processing above samples. In the afternoon I’ll do something involving reading and/or writing. Wednesday is for plot setup at the LEP secondary and LEP primary forest plots. On Friday, Taylor and Fei go to San Jose for a seminar and I’m working on organizing a trip to the World Cup qualifying match against Grenada Saturday Night.
I’ve really dug into “1776” and it’s been amazing. A great quote came out of correspondence by a British soldier in 1775 Boston. “If given the option to “get out under the smoke” they would choose “the fresh beef side of the question.” The author’s description of Henry Knox’s acquisition and overland transport of the mortars and cannon from Fort Ticonderoga was especially inspiring.
I almost hope The Finals end tonight so I no longer have to dread not being able to watch the games.
Today I made drying trays for wood samples and made some headway on developing an additional project on wood specific gravity at the tree plantation here on station. Looks quite promising. I watched a little bit of Sunday Night Baseball and decided that summers in Costa Rica is hurting my baseball knowledge.
My Yankees are on ESPN for the first time in two weeks Tuesday night at San Diego. Also, “Weeds” returns tomorrow and I’ve found a couple fellow fans to watch it with. Tomorrow after the field the plan is to go into town to get the new bike and some sustenance as well as a newspaper to check up on soccer ticket news.
Well, I hope you agree that that’s enough talk without a picture, so I’ll leave it at that. ¡Hasta mañana!
BP
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you should probably make a robot that goes and cores the trees for you. you could just sit around and fish all day then.
NEW YORK -- The Yankees' starting rotation has been dealt a serious blow, as Chien-Ming Wang -- the Major Leagues' winningest pitcher over the last two-plus seasons -- may be lost for the remainder of the 2008 campaign.
hahahahaha
it just sets up a huge trade for a big name guy come the deadline...don't worry I follow my team pretty closely these days
it just sets up a huge trade for a big name guy come the deadline...don't worry I follow my team pretty closely these days
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