12 July
Well today i got the message that my tour of duty is going to be extended by 2 weeks - subject to getting a visa extension. Apart from the additional suntan it will help pay for the hot stuff in the tub and the flat stuff on the floor that has mysteriously appeared at Tuapiro in my absence. Not to mention the package of garage coming soon.
Have had a couple of kind of laid back days - one really laying back while the stomach cramps passed, and two, gave the core logging a break and did field work out on the grasslands and keeping a check on the drilling blokes. They seem to think I am a big joke - maybe too over exuberant with my sign language, but they did give me one of their very crisp nashi.
Then we get invited into a farmers house - all brick and not much timber - he just added a new
extension and it has burned down and now living in 2 small rooms at one end with 2 teenage kids home form boarding school for the holidays - but i notice a big new pile of bricks deliverd nearby this week so i guess he is going to start again. Every farm house has at least 2 wind generators (well they dont call this windy city for nothing) and it is surmised that perhaps these are all gifts from the Chinese goverment. These rural folk live in a very different environment 
to the city slicker i see in town, where everyone has at least one cell phone, some kind of motorised bike, are dressing modern western style, some are driving fancy cars, and having lots of parties and drinking lots of wine and beer in our hotel restaurant.
But there are not very many oldies out walking or attending the parties - you get the feeling they are just not around and I am wondering why and if I should get worried about it.
Always something unexpected here.
I signed up to Skype tonight - so once i get a microphone can call the bear for 2 cents a minute -compare that with my vodofone at $5.50 a minute !! And although I am just about in Outer Mongolia I am on broadband that connects in a millisecond - but I am afraid the technology is just too much for poor old Teressa's mob at Telecom NZ as thay can't even manage a connection 400m off SH2 on one of NZ's busiest highways ! (Hey Morgan can you get me her email address - funny how telecom dont have a "Contact Me" link.)
OK its time to find a photo for the day....
Cheers Big Ears
Well today i got the message that my tour of duty is going to be extended by 2 weeks - subject to getting a visa extension. Apart from the additional suntan it will help pay for the hot stuff in the tub and the flat stuff on the floor that has mysteriously appeared at Tuapiro in my absence. Not to mention the package of garage coming soon.
Have had a couple of kind of laid back days - one really laying back while the stomach cramps passed, and two, gave the core logging a break and did field work out on the grasslands and keeping a check on the drilling blokes. They seem to think I am a big joke - maybe too over exuberant with my sign language, but they did give me one of their very crisp nashi.
Then we get invited into a farmers house - all brick and not much timber - he just added a new
extension and it has burned down and now living in 2 small rooms at one end with 2 teenage kids home form boarding school for the holidays - but i notice a big new pile of bricks deliverd nearby this week so i guess he is going to start again. Every farm house has at least 2 wind generators (well they dont call this windy city for nothing) and it is surmised that perhaps these are all gifts from the Chinese goverment. These rural folk live in a very different environment 
to the city slicker i see in town, where everyone has at least one cell phone, some kind of motorised bike, are dressing modern western style, some are driving fancy cars, and having lots of parties and drinking lots of wine and beer in our hotel restaurant.But there are not very many oldies out walking or attending the parties - you get the feeling they are just not around and I am wondering why and if I should get worried about it.
Always something unexpected here.
I signed up to Skype tonight - so once i get a microphone can call the bear for 2 cents a minute -compare that with my vodofone at $5.50 a minute !! And although I am just about in Outer Mongolia I am on broadband that connects in a millisecond - but I am afraid the technology is just too much for poor old Teressa's mob at Telecom NZ as thay can't even manage a connection 400m off SH2 on one of NZ's busiest highways ! (Hey Morgan can you get me her email address - funny how telecom dont have a "Contact Me" link.)
OK its time to find a photo for the day....
Cheers Big Ears
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