1 Bar of Internet
For the moment, while deflecting the onslaught of bills, car repairs, insurance, lockers, phone, many, many others, I take refuge in the staff accommodation. Temporary, a dark basement, no sunlight whatsoever, fluorescent lights that only occasionally work, no internet, a good night gives you stop-motion pornography - a mere one bar on the computer, on the phone none, a shower that jets steam and ice water alternately despite the tap, the clutter of bad furniture, bedding, finding a place here, it's been a constant battle and it's wearing me down, this getting settled, and time is passing...
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Meteorite over Nelson
Last Monday night, holiday Monday, after work, all the employees are out and about the restaurant. It's grey, the smoke is socked in, the moon hangs a blood red in the sky, changing in the basement, come outside to find that I missed it.
A meteor - blazing over Creston, sonic boom heard in Nelson, Creston, up to Riondel.
This excites me, the next morning, up early, Googling it, plenty of footage - according to this link it landed somewhere in the Meadows, about 30 some KM north of Kaslo. If it landed, but the size suggests it probably did...
Link: https://www.amsmeteors.org/2017/09/british-columbia-fireball-september-4th-2017/
Waiting outside, need someone with the morning off and a sense of adventure to go looking for pieces, chances are slim, if it landed on the road - or pieces of it, I find my driver and we're off...
A couple of hours searching the roads for fragments, nothing, the roads, they're really the only hope, the rest of the country too rugged, impossible to find anything unless by chance...
Another coworker, she's been off searching the other side of the lake, she checks with me as to what she should be looking for, I describe to her, heavy, fusion crust, magnetic, ...
...and she starts bringing in her finds for me to identify, thumb-sized garnets, samples of Galena, ore, and - without realizing it she's serendipitously discovered a mountain full of other treasures and I'm waiting for some shared time off so she can take me along, pictures will follow...
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Beryl & Pyrite
Found these in a consignment store, heap of rocks, various prices - a good quality, large beryl crystal perhaps a centimeter in diameter and 4 centimeters long, and a pyrite crystal. Exciting - not in and of themselves, but because clearly they're local specimens...
Pyrite crystal on left, Beryl visible in matrix centre right specimen.
Beryl on right - follow the line of the beryl crystal from close to centre right up the specimen. The photo is bad, but it's fairly long and glassy - yellowish, with lots of inclusions.
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