How ya doing CAS? Havn't heard from you for awhile.
Rad, all is AOK. My company shut down exploration and will probably sell everything within a year, and so their geologist (me) was "retired" as of March 1, although I've moved my computer to my home office, and I'm already doing some consulting. I was planning on doing this three years from now, but this works just fine for me. I'll have more time to maintain a Marine Corps unit's website, more time for family, more time for the volunteer activities that I'm already involved with, and I should have no difficulty in consulting a couple of days each week, and selling an exploration concept now and then.
Life is good!
Also, more time for sticks, once the weather improves. Now waiting on some gold-colored initials (my Doc's) to embed in his diamond willow stick, before minor, final sanding and several tung oil applications.
Next up, a eastern red cedar stick collected a year ago at my brother's east Texas place, and this will be his. He is visiting in late March, and we can make the length perfect. He is a retired cop who is also a summer park ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park. He likes the idea of a compass on top, like the diver's compass that I have on one of my own sticks. I lost the second compass, but recently located it, good because they are no longer available in this area.