Birthdays are refreshing mothers memories rather than children�s celebrations. In any case my best wishes to IKI for success and long life and the best to his mother that is usually the invisible hero. John

That was v. sweet John *grin*

This is something for your eyes. PONTIKONISI or MOUSE-ISLAND in GREECE, CORFU ISLAND John

Thank you ES-BE It is the truth I think. But birthdays are also a good chance to break our monotony. "Smile". John

lovely little island - looks very peaceful and picturesque :-)

Indeed ES-BE It looks like a remaining stone on the God's sieve from those that were created Greece. (See topic 28/ response 151). Who knows that it was so beautiful? But it is devoted to God as you see. John

An excellent use for such a lovely spot. :-)

John Dear, I looked at your exqiisit photograph and decided it was a miniature model of a tiny Greek island. On closer inspection, it is one of your magnificent classic stucco buildings on the only sea I know that is as blue as the Pacific is in Hawaii. Thank you for sharing more eye-candy. Birthdays are special because they remind me how much better my life is for particular people having been born. Iki naturally comes to mind. Thank you!

Birthdays of our children�s is reminding us our past. But our birthdays is reminding us our parents and its life mainly. I remember how slow was the life of my parents and I wonder what is the maximum speed of the recent life. I don�t know but I fear that today�s increasing momentum is destroying any flavour and any essence from the human�s life. Where is the pedal of brakes? John

John, if you ever discover the pedals for the brakes of life, please tell me their secret location. They exist here, but it makes life difficult when we must interact with the rest of humanity. That is why travel does not appeal to me as much as it used to do. When I get to California or even Honolulu, my pulse quickens and my heart races - neither of which I find pleasing. My ability to cope with masses of rushing humanity becomes less with each passing year. Our world has become very complex! Come to Hawaii and enjoy the pursuits of your inner child.

I think the term is Koyaanisqatsi (Hopi for 'Life out of balance') - this came to mind from a film I saw many years ago in a different epoc of my life. It must have been during that time I just wanted to hyper accelerate through all the mundane of life to the conclusion. Sort of blowing off the 9 course meal for the desert. Years and some wisdom later, I am doing the slowing down thing as well. Problem is that now I have numerous diversions and interest pulling me in all ways. There are days when I work on stuff and there are days I dont even turn the computer on. Life is cyclic between those extremes to varying degrees. It is good I have these diversions but even now, I try to do a technical Feng Shui and isolate and focus on one primary project task - I fail miserably at this the same as when I look at several cases of books (technical,philosophical, foolishness) and try to decide which ones I will keep and which I will get rid of. I guess, ultimately, this will all be decided but for now, I keep bouncing around life's sampler. 73 de Mike AA9IL r-c-i

Your tastes are eclectic, Mike. That is the best of all worlds. You will never be bored. I am like that also. I continue to read several books at the same time and discuss the most mundane or most abstruse subjects depending on the company or lack thereof. Keep at it. Your like will be much the richer for it! I like your Hopi. I think I need to read more!

Let us know of your success with technical Feng Shui. I wish you luck!

This ship is currently docked in Hilo Harbor. Ihave never seen such a large civilian ship! It makes little Hilo look very tiny, indeed. Tonnage 91,000 Length 964.6 feet Beam 105.6 feet Draught 26.3 feet Cruising Speed 24 knots; Guest Decks 11; Elevators 10; Electric Current 110/220 AC; Country of Registry Liberia; Classification Society Lloyd�s Register; Engines/Propellers Gas Turbines/Pods; Guest Capacity (basis two) 1950; Guest Staff Ratio 2:1; Space Ratio 46.6; Crew; Crew Size: 999; Nationality of Officers: Greek Nationality of Hotel Staff: European/International Nationality of Cruise Staff: European/American

I wish I had known it was here. I would have looked a lot more carefully and taken some of my own photos of it so you could see how enormous it truly is. With 1000 Greeks in town, perhaps I could have gotten one to teach me a bit of the language! *Sigh* Imagine ME on a tropical island with 1000 Greek men and my not knowing it?! That photo does not do it justice. It is absolutely enormous.

Want to check out this lovely ship? http://www.royalcaribbean4me.com/celebrity_cruises/Infinity/celebrity_cruises_infinity.htm

it's a celebrity cruise ship, then? wow!

Indeed ! That ship elicits "WOW" from people who have never uttered the word before. You really cannot understand the vast size of this ship unless you are standing right beside it. They presented Hilo with 3000 new visitors in a single day. That is a sizeable percentage of the local population! In fact, it is about 10% of Hilo!

Memorial Day 2002

Hi All Nothing new to report except to say hi. 73 de aa9il mike r-c-i

Thanks for checking in, Mike. You are alwayg a joy to behold ( I am picturing you with massive massive head set plugged into your boat anchor du jour and a brass key by your side and a log book open. That's the way my dad always looked so I put you in his stead. Keep the faith. Communicate wiht an alien! 73's and 88's

and if you do talk to an alien, tell us about it in paraspring (just don't tell the FBI *laugh*)

....or the USAF...*ROTF*

...talk to an alien? "Smile". It makes me thinking some eventualities. We are captive in a three dimensional environment. But we are creatures of 2.5 dimensions. We understand well the "length ", "width" and the "altitude". But we cannot traveling in the third dimension (which is the altitude) without mechanical help. If they exists more than three dimensions in the universe, we are watching part of it. We can not sense something that perhaps exist in the 4th dimension even if it is very close in front of us; except if it will become in some of our dimensions or in our COSMOS. It is the only logical though that can answer in some mysteries today. Our science is also limeted in three dimensions. We can "touch" more than three dimensions only by mathematics and logical thoughts. We don't know yet if our electromagnetic transmissions are really travelling in more than three dimensions. John

Happy Birthday Marcia! *blowing birthday kisses toward Hilo*

Happy Birthday Marci! Also, its kind of funny you mentioned the boatanchor - couple of nights ago I was listening to 20m CW and was just goofing around with different filter widths, BFO settings, audio response, etc. One of the things you can do with the R390A is calibrate the main tuning oscillator to the mechanical counter (frequency readout). I set the BFO to zero beat, tuned to 14.000 MHz, locked the mechanical drive and adjusted the main tuning oscillator to 14.000. Ok, big deal... but when I released the main knob, there was no backlash of the tuning, the radio just stayed parked right on zero beat (i.e. no beat frequency tone indicating that something electrically or mechanically drifted). I just had to marvel at that - a 50 + year old radio that works like a charm. Sort of the same satisfaction as listening to a Jaguar XKE during idle or a Hammond B3 organ with the rotating Leslie speakers. Anyway, regarding aliens and such - If I were to speak to any aliens, I would surely invite them over for tea! It is interesting regarding the possible methods of hyper parsec travel which goes with the concept of warped spacetime, worm holes, etc to cover vast distances. Most likely, hyper dimensional space travel is the only way to get from point A to point B. These higher dimensional portals could exist all around us - just need to be able to work in the higher dimension to utilize or observe. anyway, blah..blah..blah 73 de AA9IL Mike r-c-i

We're lookin' for you on echolink Mike! See http://repeater.org for details.

Hi Terry I had a chance to listen in during my last very brief trip through Austin - need to get the software downloaded and interface then should be good to go! Mike AA9IL

You'll love it, it's been a total transformation of our repeater.

the AF will blow you off and then send a team of investigators out *laugh*

~*~*~*~Happy Birthday, Viky~*~*~*~

Hello Everybody, I have been back from my trip for some time but haven't been back on Geo. So here I am. Marcia & John thanks for your concern about my welfare here in Karachi. Your messages have been very comforting. Yes, it's getting quite hot here and the latest headline is that in case of nuclear attack there will be total destruction for fifteen miles. I hope and pray that mankind will not go that crazy.-- Sikander

What is the word on the street in Karachi about the liklihood of war? Of nuclear war? You are definitely square in the middle of the planet's hot sport right now.

so good to see you again, maharaja!! *HUGS*

We are all praying for you, Sikander! No matter what one calls his supreme being, it is the one who is being invoked for your safety from all parts of the globe. I suggest that this nuclear possibility will end in no winners and the whole world will be affected. I am certain there are some serious negotiations going on of which the media are unaware. Good! Such things are best done away from the scrutiny of public opinion.

Welcome back, Sikander. I forgot my manners in my joy at seeing your post. My warmest Hugs of Aloha are also with you. Be safe!

Nice to be back. Thanks Marcia, Terry, & Wolfie. It's very comforting to have you all as friends. Terry, news in the streets of Karachi is mixed. Some think that it's nothing but political drama, some think war is imminent but will not go nuclear, some, like myself, think it's time we became Houdini's students. Life is going on normally but there seems to be obvious question mark on the faces of the elderly. There are also those who have relatives on the other side and are the most concerned. Today they showed an interesting documentary on the Discovery channel. Well preserved mummies in the Xinjiang province of China. If I heard it correctly they called them Churchin Mummies. These are mummies of European people. The oldest one is of a lady called the Lulan Beauty and is about 4000 years old. Live & Learn.

I heard Musharraf and the Indian PM are having an icy staredown at the conference table. Why can't Kashmire just be it's own state with self determination, the problem seems to be the presence of India and Pakistan in what should be a sovereign nation, am I right?

Yes Terry that's the basic right of the Kashmiri people. I believe that is what Pakistan too has always asked for, well at least that's what we have always been led to believe and that's what the majority of the Pakistani people believe. Gen.Musharraf and Mr.Vajpayee really had an icy staredown, but I think Musharraf won the stare. "laugh". I like the bold steps he has taken. None of his predecessors would go even half the way.

Sikander, you get the Discovery Channel also?! I too watched that lady of Xinjiang. Sharing the same interesting television documentaries makes you see so much closer. Please watch for programs about Hawaii. They have them frequently. I like the thought of sharing things! Intersting insights about the perilous times you are erxperiencing. Your General Musharraf has the mandate of the people. Now I can see why. Dangerous times require resolute and wise men. May this be true now. I do wish you were watching from a far greater distance than you are now! Be safe, Sikander. You are part of our family now!

What a surprise Marcia that you too were watching the same program. I was simply fascinated by it. Especially, about how well they are preserved. I think if someone from their time saw any of these mummies, they would actually recognize the person. I had seen mummies at the Cairo Museum and the British Museum but to me they didn't seem to be recognizable. These are! I do admire Gen.Musharraf but I didn't like his stunt about the referendum. Actually, his popularity went down a little due to it. Personally, I think Mr. Vajpayee is afraid to enter into a dialogue with him. Your comforting assurances have helped a lot. I do feel safe and I feel proud of being part of the family.

*HUGS* Remember that our leaders are politicians and sometimes their mouths go faster than the brains supposedly controlling them. A loosened tongue has caused more than one leader difficulties. A good man will recover, put it behind him adn move on promising himself not to do it again. Check out our former President Clinton if you think Pakistan is alone in this difficulty. For those who may care but wonder what to do, John and I are in contact with our esteemed Sikander via email for more lengthy discussions of comfort and just to keep in contact. This is very important, now. They know it is the greatest reason for my taking the laptop computer with me.

you guys, the discovery channel is my favorite and i love all the shows on ancient egypt and mummies (world-wide mummies)

Hi Wolf Did you see the feature on the mummies of Xinjiang Province in NW China? I think it was fantastic.

i believe i did but not recently--they had a mummy show last year too

Marcia flatters me. Imagine "esteemed Sikander". But so nice of her to take her laptop with her to keep in touch. Have a nice time Marcia. John did you receive my last email. If not, then thanks again for the useful info you have given. All you Geo guys are so knowledgeable. I am learning a lot.

Forgot to include a querry in my last posting. Why doesn't Topic 50 appear in the main menu?

Sorry, I meant the "Welcome to Geo" page, not the main menu.

it doesn't show up when you check all conferences on the welcome to geo page? marcia, i miss you already!!!!

I'm here, world! Sikander, if you use http://spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/Geo/all/new all conferences with posts you have not read yet will show up. That is where I log into Spring and into Geo. If it does not even show up on http://spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/Geo/all/ it may mean you have inadventantly hit the "forget" button so you must find the "remember" one to cure that. Let me know if it works. Yes, My Dear. You are greatly esteemed by John and me and the rest of us who have come to know and to value you. I was missing so long because David was setting a wireless network so I can talk to you even from outside under a tree using his modem while he uses it for other things. HUGS all. It is HOT here but I am happy to be on a continent again!

Thanks Marcia I will try the way you have explained and let you know. Attaboy to David for setting up wireless network for you. Enjoy your stay on the continent. John could you please confirm your email address, perhaps I entered it wrongly in the my last email to you.

John's email is tsatsaragosj@yahoo.com. Save your congratulations until David gets my instant messengers working online. As it currently stands, I can use MSN but no one uses it except for Wolfie. Actually, I do not know what the difficulty is. Despite his tweaking and rebooting all day only the internet and email works.

Wireless network! What high technology services you have Marcia! You must be proud for David. I like the idea to work under a tree or in the summerhouse. Your son is perfect again. He cares for your comfort. I will try helping you Marcia! If Internet and e-mail are working successfully, the problem is not exists in the wireless (or not) connection. Probably depends on security settings of your browser or on security settings of some protection programs that are perhaps used. I suggest you disable any security program and adjust your browser to a lower protection level. Perhaps this is the solution. From the other hand you have to drink more liquids against hot weather. Enjoy your family and the continent part of your country. John

Yeah Marcia, John's idea is good. Now's the time to take cold mint tea.

Things are cooling down a bit here. Thanks to all of you for your prayers.

Yesterday, in a blistering hot car park, I would have been delighted to have joined you in that mint tea. As it was I drank a LOT of water, instead. I am not relenting on my prayers for your safety and for peace. I hope it is so easily defused, but I think it is not. Sikander, we passed by some jasmine bushes (or what passes for them in California) and I thought of you! Do you drink your mint tea hot even in such high temperatures? Last night I wanted something HOT!!!

It is hot also here. But exists a spectacular ravine only a few minutes from my house. It has many sycamore tower trees. A small river is drive through it with enough noise. A simple restaurant-cafe is there. But it has many and big tanks where they breed trout. It is an oasis there because the temperature is almost 6-8 degrees lower. You need something hot easily there. You need also a jacket. John

David has many jackets which we all wore last night. We are cool inside houses and cars and stores. We will go into the mountains tomorrow. I hope. I am also downloading Yahoo IM on Iris's old computer so if you see me please contact me and I will use her old keyboard to answer. Not all of the keys work so please try to understand what I am saying.

oh have fun in those mountains marcia and be careful!! take lots of digitals for us! i love mint julep tea but i've never tasted it hot! sadly, no one around these parts knows what i'm talking about--guess i'll have to start brewing it myself!

When I get back East I'll check into the Mint Julep tea. It better not have bourbon in it or I'm not gonna drink it... tell us more! Off to Shasta!!!

Shasta as in Northern Calif?

YES!!!! no bourbon for me either...i guess i meant to call it just mint tea because the only mint julep version i can find has the liquer in it.

Yes, I have mint tea in hot weather too because if the tea is kept in the refrigerator it has the totally opposite effect. It has cooling and soothing effect. Good for digestion too.

It is true that body temperature liquids are immediately usable by your body whereas you have to warm cold liquids before they can be used which uses calories and makes you even warmer. Sikander is correct. I am back from seeing 4 volcanoes, three of which are the Cascades - and in the far distance, the Sierras with snow on them. I collected some lovely pumice *;)

Hi all Back again - been a nutz of a week but a couple of interesting things to report - saw an iridium flare during the June vhf contest last weekend but the cool visual was what I think was the contrail from the shuttle launch. While flying back from Miami, thirty minutes into the flight and starboard to the plane, I saw what looked like a distinct vapor column - this was some minutes old (?) and was already spreading from wind shear currents. Different from any of the surrounding clouds (including storm clouds). No final verification but neat none the less. Anyway, happy soon to be summer! 73 de aa9il mike r-c-i

I wonder what is the radioactivity background near a volcano. I really don�t know. Is there some danger from possible radioactive materials? Do you know some easy and quick and not expensive test for it? I think that I know one. John

I remember that I was collecting samples of stones in quarries near Volos when I was in high school. I remember also my attempts to analyze those samples in my room. It looks very funny today. I wanted to make the experiments of my school chemistry book in my room. I had also some explosions..."laugh". I got out alive finally. john

Greetings John and all I would suspect that detecting radioactive characteristics of volcanoes would be performed using similar equipment to 'down hole' sensors used by the oil companies - these are tube like enclosures containing data logging and sensors that is fed down the drilling hole - telemetry/data is sent back up via cabling. Due to the extreme environment, I suspect volcanic sensing equipment is packaged in a most robust housing. 73 de Mike AA9IL r-c-i

I just asked David and he suggested I look it up. I shall when I get a moment. He is not sure of the state of the science, but he did spend a lot of time monitoring radon gas emissions from Kilauea for just such eruption predicting - or relevance thereto. Mike's suggestions are also a strong possibility. Interesting thoughts. I'll be checking when I get a few minutes. David is loading satellite viewing information into his palm computer so we have our evening entertainment ready. Congratulations, Mike for catching the iridium flare. Impressive, aren't they! Subscribe to SeeSat and you will havde more information than you know what to do with. I'm jealous of your shuttle launch contrail. I'd definitely add it to my list of seen astronimical phenomena! Clear skies and warm nights, all. I'm off to study the heavens!

Hi Marci and geoites Clear skies and warm nights sounds good - its misty and cooler (!) here. Kind of makes me feel like I live further up north than I really do. Re satellites, I sometimes run InstantTrak to get position info. On clear nights here when the ambient light pollution is not too bad, you can sometimes see N to S and S to N satellite traversals. Look forward to hearing more about the volcanic sensors. 73 de AA9IL Mike r-c-i

Forgive my ignorance Marcia, but is SeeSat a website? Enjoy your study of the heavens.

This refers back a few posts. Marcia and Wolfie I had some wonderful hot mint tea in a North African (as in cusine, not location) restaurant about 6 weeks ago. We got the whole pot and had to pour it through a strainer into little cups.

i love drinking herbal tea that way--my opa (german grandfather) grew his own herbs and we had it as tea--very good stuff.

Hi Everybody! Sorry about the bad news from Karachi. Just as I was beginning to feel that things were getting better. I thought I should let you all know that I am in good health. I know you all care. Please pray that common sense and concern for humanity may prevail. Thanks

No, Sikander, we use Heavens Above to find out what we are seeing. SeeSat is a message board for professional astronomers world wide and others intersted. I have occasionally posted there, as well. SeeSat http://satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html Heavens Above http://www.heavens-above.com/ My my profpimd sorrow for what is happening in Karachi. I have been out of the news loop since We have been immersed in computer rebuilding and netowrking. Hugs, Sikander. I will catch up on my email to you!

Thanks for your comforting words Marcia. I had guessed that you were busy with the networking. Take it easy and enjoy your stay in California. I discovered yesterday that the highest telescope on earth is also in Hawaii. I have forgotten the name of the place. Thanks for the website addresses and the hugs. Look after yourself Marcia.

The networking works splendidly. Any one of four computers can use the print command on the computer and have it print out in the office where the main computer lives. And, we can download programs from one another's hard drive. I find that rather amazing and VERY time-saving. Next I have to get closer to the east coast (flying again and more security checks)and set up a network there. I hope I was a good student. This time I am the computer "expert" so I have all components needed. I highly recommend doing this. Your children and youcan all be online at the same time all doing separate things and no one can see that the other is doing. And, only one telephone line is occupied!

My laptop PC died last night so I am without a computer for the week. I will also be travelling tomorrow so wish me luck. The dead latop is remaining in the care of my son who will install a new one, format it and load the programs we use then send it to me ASAP. With new memory and a bigger new hard drive, it should be awesome. If not, I'm giving up on it. Also plan to set up a network at my destination so I can be online and use the isp where I will be instead of bothering anyone with my difficulties. Take care of Geo for me. I will check in on Thursday on my host's computer just to see that everything is working right. Thanks! and *HUGS* I had no idea how confusing life can be when the computer isn't working right!

Hi Marci Hope you have a fun and safe trip and get back on the inet when you can. Hopy you also have a fun solstice! 73 de Mike aa9il

We'll see you Thursday night then! Sounds like the laptop will be worth waiting for with the upgrade. Travel safe!

Thanks for the good wishes. It must have worked since after getting though being chosen far more frequently than necessary for secuity body searches and complete undoing of my carry one things, I managed to get a great seatmate out o Dallas-Fort Worth - a HAM aand a hardware troubleshooter for computers! We had a great trip trading war stories! Still waiting for my laptop while my son tries to find time to fix it. Tomorrow we are off to a symposium where my host will present a paper on Melungeons and on the way I will get to see really neat rocks and stuff like that. I am really excitied ! But, is it ever hot here. What happened to the tradwinds?

You are charging your batteries Marcia. I have the impression that you are like drinking a warm pleasurable teacup. Close your eyes to difficulties and Enjoy it. Cosmos is marvelous if we want to see it from the correct side, as you make usually. John

Hi Marcia! I've missed your frequent postings at Spring. Enjoy the symposium tomorrow. Maybe you'll post some interesting new items at the Mulungeon conference. Don't forget to mention the neat rocks that you'll be seeing on the way here at Geo.

Happy Summer Soltace! Okay, I'm early. It's actually tomorrow. Happy Winter Soltace to those in the southern hemisphere, Anne and Rob! I hope that the snow has abated for you, Rob.

Happy Solstice! Bang a Gong!

Earth's Instantaneous Velocity (on its path around the Sun) will be at the minimum value tomorrow. I am talking about 28 Km/sec. Then, Earth will start to accelerate again. Be ready tight your belt and stop smoking. We will go closer to the Sun! Happy Solstice to all! John

Enjoy your solstice!

Wow! I missed the Solstice while attending an conference ("Union") in the Hills of Tennessee. Bet something had to be right. That evening, after my host and future Geo's archaeologist gave his paper (he drove me there through the most spectacular scenery I have ever seen - and most amazing geological structures in the foothills of the Applachians. Saturday night we heard there was a little old place down a tiny valley ("holler") so off we went. A big "rustic" wood and corrugated sheet iron structure seated about 1000 while the rest of us sat outside with the moon and fireflies. We listened to the purest of country music and bluegrass and NOTHING was plugged into the electricity!!! I was overjoyed. Anthropology in actuality. Then a few guys from down the road dropped in and we were treated to a long session with Johnny and June Carter Cash. We were all surprised and delighted. During the course of the evening no matter who was doing the music folks would just get up and start dancing. Clog and buck dancing, mostly. It was fantasic and I would love to go back for more! Look up The Carter Family Fold in Hiltons if you want to know more about it. My host for the duration is a fascinating man whose conversations go on for hours into the night. I could not have chosen a better travelling companion for this journey into Americana. (They were amazed that I was from Hawaii - they looked like I had told them I was from another planet!)

"Flooded" with an infrequent genus of butterfly Eastern Thessaloniki and enough regions of Central Macedonia in Greece. It is a hazard only to green fallow that is expected from the thousands butterflies according to scientists. They maintain that their overpopulation, is owed in the climatic conditions that prevailed the spring and encouraged their procreation. John

How incredibly lovely! I can think of much worse plagues than too many butterflies! Tent caterpillers and Gypsy moths were unusually bad this year in my current location. Happily they had run their course before I got here, but my seat mate flying in told me of buring them out of his trees to save the trees from certain death by doing so. The Falls of the Ohio location is http://www.fallsoftheohio.org/center.html I do want to see the fossil beds. Then I want to go see some fossils I can collect.

Warmest Aloha Marcia. I saw the photo album of the Falls of Ohio you have attached. They are beautiful but to you it must be like paradise. By the way, where areyou these days? Did you get the picture of tooth I finally succeeded in getting properly scanned. I tried to paste it in this space too, but it seems that this space only accepts text.

Aloha and Big Hugs, Sikander!!! I thought sure I had lost you! I did not get your tooth since I cannot get my home email here (until I get my own laptop and have it forwarded.) I am delighted that you were able to scan something so we could all see it. I am in the southeastern USA in Kentucky and Tennessee. This part of the US has small farmers and poor but proud people who are self sufficient and ask no one for help. I guess they are closer to what made America great than any other citizens. However, for the benefit of their children, it might be better to have better schooling and health. However, they are tending tobe stubborn and to cling to the old ways, so they continue to do things they way their ancestors did them. Some do have electricity and many have little TV antennas but many more still do not have indoor plumbing. It is interesting but something inside me recoils at this primitive lifestyle. Books are great things. There can be more to life than grinding poverty in this country of g eat wealth. *Sigh* It is difficult, but no one can make another live differently if they do not chooe to do so. A,d. I never want to eat HOMINY again!!! The Falls of Ohio is a state park so I cannot pick up rocks there. I will enjoy learning of what fossils are there, however. Then, I have been promised a fossil expidition by a collector who says he knows nothing about them, but knows their precise classifications right down to genus and species! Sikander, I will think of you each time I find anythng. By the way, I did write to your email address on record here - did you see it? I have lost your and everyone else's email addresses when my hard drive broke. I am currently BluegrassHula@aol.com. I'd love to hear from you! You too, John!

What I really need is a field guide to the geology of this area. There are bound to be books available at the state park if not elsewhere.

Hi Marci Glad I checked this page - I still can not get past topic 32 when displaying Geo on my laptop - ????? dunno Anyway, sounds like you are having fun in rock country. Also, got your new email address - I sent you a couple of emails to aloha.net but now figure you wont see those until you get your replacement pc. Nothing new to report here - just packaging up some microwave stuff for the August contest. 73 de Mike AA9IL r-c-i

Hi Mike I have the same problem when displaying Geo/All. Something is wrong. I e-mailed Terry before yesterday and also today about this problem. I posted a test answer to your topic 35. So, your topic is visible if you select Activity within last week. The topics 33, 39, 60, 61, 62, 63, and 75 are not accessible for the moment. You can access each one of the other topics using: http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/public/read/Geo/32 replace the number 32 with the number of the topic you want to access). Best Regards John

Hi Sikander How are the things there now? I hope that you are OK. I can post in Geo any picture you may want to share with us. Simply send it to me by e-mail. Warm regards from Greece John

Surely, those people are more unadulterated Marcia. We must remember our past years when we were like those proud people. They are self-sufficient and this is very good. I wonder if they are in advantageous position against the most of us. They are more HUMANS! John

Marcia,I had a feeling that there was some problem with your communication tool. I have been sending you ecards every day and have not been receiving any response. Will you be able to see all those cards when you get back to your laptop? I have sent you an email too and have attached the mysterious tooth. I will try to send it to John as he has so kindly offered to paste it on Geo. Thanks John. Marcia, you have got me all excited about Kentucky and Tennessee. People living in the mountains I visit also live in this type of simplicity. It does have its charms of contentment. However, the lack of education for their children is a sad aspect. This has been one of my ideas that PACC (the place where I work) should open centers in small towns close to such small farms here in Pakistan, but it seems that my ideas fall on deaf ears. Once again, nice to hear from you Marcia. I feel good now.

This is a fossilized tooth. The color is a shade darker than it appears in in picture. It was found in this broken state near the Khir Thar mountain range approximately 5 miles east of the Khir-Thar National Park. The size of the broken tooth is slightly over 1 inch and the girth of the bottom edge is about one inch and one-half of an inch. It seems very similar to what I had seen on the Discovery channel as a dinosaur's tooth.

John, thanks for helping me post this onto Geo50.