“I wish it could have been water. Oil makes men idle, whereas water makes them work.” 
- King Idris of Libya, commenting on Libya’s 1950s discovery of oil
Heli-bags are dropped every 120m. We unload the bags and plant six geophone stations between them — two cables, twelve geophones per bag. With a crew of ten, that [...]

In Oman, I have learned to relax.
Today is day 81. The beast within that went without and wrote Philadelphia has calmed down marginally — probably due to the hour-and-a-half nap I had today at “work.”
I am prone to action and a neurotic foot-tapping when it stops. I was once asked, “Can you relax?” I responded [...]