Apparently history can be kind of interesting after all!

Have been off harassing people in The Pas, MB all week, for entirely work-related reasons!  They've got me working on Phase I Environmental Assessments, which basically requires gathering and summarizing All The Information Ever for whatever site we're investigating. 

Reminder: I work in environmental consulting - unfortunately in oil and gas and NOT in mining like I'd prefer, but I digress.

( Anyways, this is my very first report, so of course they tossed the hardest possible site in my lap. )

*sigh*  I keep telling myself to write just a short blurb, but these always wind up tl;dr.  Sorry guys.  *hangs head*

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I bought a new laptop today.

Okay wait, let me go back.  Not long after finishing my thesis, my poor old HP kicked the bucket, in July or August, I think.  I knew it was coming, there were tonnes of warning signs, but I just needed it to get me through to the end of my thesis.  I was really sad when it finally flailed itself to death, because he'd been a good little laptop and my companion through the thesis hardships, and he had cute stickers on him, to boot.

Of course, it's never a good time to lose your lifeline computer, and at the time I was job hunting.  So my Uncle offered me his.  This thing is a beast, huge and cumbersome, crappy and slow.  Decent battery life though, I'll give it that.

Anyways, I've been using it ever since my own deary kicked the bucket, and argh I hate it.  It's been especially slow and annoying the last few weeks.  This afternoon, I finally screamed in rage and high-tailed it off to the computer store to get an idea of what's out there now.  And in my usual method of shopping, walked out the door with a new computer within 20 minutes.

I haven't started to set her up yet, but she's pretty and shiny.  I'll give more details tomorrow one I've played with her a bit. 

YAY NEW LAPTOP!  \o/