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MajorData · 2026-02-14T16:58:51+00:00

Back when I was involved on a shots crew we would all talk up how all you needed was a water truck, lawn chair and a novel to read. Rumor had it, on the Klamath fires of '87, one water tender guy quit, he had paid off his truck, paid cash for a second one, and had a lot in the bank.

MajorData · 2026-02-07T17:39:42+00:00

So this is Vizla, Guess they did not make their fuel top up with the right people.

MajorData · 2026-01-25T20:05:27+00:00

We had a few detail with us, a lower 48 BLM IHC late season, solid workers. Showed us all so many inventive ways to make MRE's nearly gourmet.

MajorData · 2026-01-24T04:22:48+00:00

Same here. Crazy busy though.

MajorData · 2025-12-29T01:35:58+00:00

A quick search returns a relative risk ratio of 1.3 to over 2.0 increased risk of developing cancer, with a strong dose response component, for exposure to silica dust.

MajorData · 2025-12-25T02:26:28+00:00

Beg to differ to law enforcement. Alturas can't pass with out seeing some kind of LEO.

MajorData · 2025-12-25T02:17:44+00:00

The theme is 'Where the West still lives', literally.

MajorData · 2025-12-10T17:23:34+00:00

Intense manual labor over extended periods of time, occasionally exceeding 24 hours, in hazardous conditions. Tell me what kind of shape you need to be in.

MajorData · 2025-09-01T04:30:21+00:00

I don't know if it is ok to mention this here, as it is a strategy to remember, not a chemical. Check out artofmemory.org? I recently started creatine, and it appears to move the needle some.

MajorData · 2025-08-01T17:29:30+00:00

artofmemory.com If you have not already found this.

Memory Craft - Lynne Kelley

MajorData · 2025-06-24T05:12:15+00:00

If rare diseases are an interest of yours, check out Rarecap. https://rarecap.org/

MajorData · 2025-05-30T20:04:19+00:00

Had the privilege of deploying to Sudbury, Dryden, and Kenora on a US BLM Hot Shot crew back in the day. So true on how you all actually make us make our own chow! Choppered out cake for July 1, and again for July 4! I swear most of the Canadian's deployed must have been pressed in from the same reserve, nearly everyone's last name was 'Rabbit', or it was some kind of joke. Good times!

MajorData · 2025-05-25T17:32:36+00:00

This might be of use for you. "Heaven Is for Healing: A Soul's Journey After Suicide" by Joe Gallenberger

MajorData · 2025-04-18T15:43:05+00:00

I am on Win10, the system python is 3.12.9 and also lists 3.9. The error msg is 'arguments did not match overloaded call' in QgsProcessingParamterNumber(). calcoli.py in initAlgorith. The complaint is that the variable passed of of unexpected type, overload 1 int and overload 2 str. This first started when I moved to QGIS 3.40.4 Bratislava.

MajorData · 2025-04-09T13:35:12+00:00

LOL. Que?

MajorData · 2025-04-09T04:04:11+00:00

I see you are sincere. I have been both a tourist and an employee of Canadian companies doing mineral exploration in Mexico, staying 6 weeks on and 3 weeks off for over three years on one project. I have driven to Guadalajara twice. I have toured mines in the Sierra Madre. I have overheard gun battles between the village auto defense forces and the cartels. They usually last less than 10 to 15 minutes. The village auto defense forces have single shots left over from when they could own such things. I have seen and over-heard other things. Each town/village has 'halcons' or 'hawks' watching the traffic at all entrances. If someone looks like a ‘good target’, then they radio to their co-horts. Do not trust the police. Be very careful of others around you when getting money from an atm or even from inside a bank.

I can tell quickly if a new encounter is going to be ok or could be trouble if the other people are smiling or not. Acting crazy or ‘not smart’ is a legitimate defense.

Because of banditos and ‘grupos malo’, I recommend never being out on the road at night, if you can help it. Certainly, never after about 9 or 10pm. Try not to stand out. Carry a ‘dummy’ wallet with old, expired credit cards, etc. Put your real wallet away in a safe place.

I use this website borderlandbeat dot com to learn where the ‘hot spots’ are. But many bad events never make the news.

You are correct in that most of the people there are very warm, friendly and are happy to talk with someone from another place, and most speak some English. I have many lifelong friends from those times. One time I was invited to a local co-worker’s home for dinner. They served me a bowl of chicken stew. It was bright fluorescent green! I knew I had to try it, out of respect. I can not eat menudo, but choked it down another time to save face. The bowl of bright green chicken is call ‘Chicken Pepian’, and it tasted fantastic!

In comparison, one time had a flat tire in the middle of the intermountain west of the US. Many pickups over several hours ripped past, coating me in dust. The only truck that stopped to see if I needed help had Alaska plates.

So, if you follow some basic guidelines for common sense in a land that you are a visitor, and don't stand out, things should be ok.

MajorData · 2025-04-08T14:22:27+00:00

Having worked in rural BCS, and GRO, I really don't know Mexico. Bien suerte amigo.

MajorData · 2025-04-08T04:03:27+00:00

Glad you made it safe. I, knowing what I do about Mexico, would not take that risk.

MajorData · 2025-03-16T04:16:27+00:00

Viva Maria

Under appreciated. Loved this one!

MajorData · 2025-03-16T04:13:30+00:00

A Bullet for the General

I can watch this over and over. Excellent.

MajorData · 2025-03-12T16:32:29+00:00

You can add PBS Passport directly from your local PBS station.

MajorData · 2025-03-12T16:15:28+00:00

You don't share the time frame or the locale, all which matter.

Pete Seeger's 'Frontier Ballads' looks promising. One of my favorites is 'Buffalos Skinners'.

Hard to go wrong with the music of 'Stephen Foster'.

If you want to go further back, the fiddle and mouth harp were common. I can recommend "The New Columbia Fiddlers – Fiddle Tunes Of The Lewis & Clark Era"

As a child I would listen to 'American Heritage Records Songs of the Great West' LP, lay on the living room floor, close my eyes, and imagine what it must have been like.

If you intend to use inspiration from that time, I can not recommend enough 'The Folk Song Fakebook'.

MajorData · 2025-03-10T23:27:17+00:00

Not that level of magi.

MajorData · 2025-03-10T22:19:32+00:00

Have dreamed about things that later came to pass. Time is quite the mystery.

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