(blogging from my phone is hard, just fixing some spelling and spacing mistakes)
It's been that sort of fieldtrip. It all started yesterday. First I forgot my phone charger and had to go all the way back home for it. Even with that detour we still made good time to our campsite. I consider myself a good little camper, but I have NEVER had this much trouble making a fire. That's the last time I use a coolant soaked fire starter (long story) and hard wood from Valero, I can assure you all.
The real trouble began today. First, I slept horribly with a headache all night long, and it persisted until well after lunch. We get to our first stream of the day, I get our flow meter our and I'm greeted with an error message! Wtf is this nonsense, I wonder! I eventually gave up on the gizmo in favor of the wiffle ball we have as a back up stream velocity measurement. Then we get to the next stream...
Me to my assistant: where's the rinse bottle?
Him: oh shit....I left it at the last site!
That backtrack cost us almost an hour of time. I had hoped to do 10 streams today, but I'm starting to be doubtful. After another site, we stop in town for lunch, and to call Lab Tech to see if he can help me fix the flow meter. After almost an hour on the phone, no luck. Definitely not getting 10 sites now.
And then this! Right before starting this post, I went to the truck to take a picture of the error message to show you all and this is what I see:
NOW the flow meter decides its going to work. Fml ...I can only hope tomorrow is better...
About the only positive thing that happened was that when our tent blew over (because the ground was too hard to push the stakes in and I forgot a mallot) the nice people at the campground turned our tent back over.
Updated: Well, the flow meter worked for approximately 1 stream and then crapped out again. Of the 10 streams we visited the 2nd day, only one had dried up. considering the almost month long absence of rain and heat wave we've been having, I consider myself lucky.
It's been that sort of fieldtrip. It all started yesterday. First I forgot my phone charger and had to go all the way back home for it. Even with that detour we still made good time to our campsite. I consider myself a good little camper, but I have NEVER had this much trouble making a fire. That's the last time I use a coolant soaked fire starter (long story) and hard wood from Valero, I can assure you all.
The real trouble began today. First, I slept horribly with a headache all night long, and it persisted until well after lunch. We get to our first stream of the day, I get our flow meter our and I'm greeted with an error message! Wtf is this nonsense, I wonder! I eventually gave up on the gizmo in favor of the wiffle ball we have as a back up stream velocity measurement. Then we get to the next stream...
Me to my assistant: where's the rinse bottle?
Him: oh shit....I left it at the last site!
That backtrack cost us almost an hour of time. I had hoped to do 10 streams today, but I'm starting to be doubtful. After another site, we stop in town for lunch, and to call Lab Tech to see if he can help me fix the flow meter. After almost an hour on the phone, no luck. Definitely not getting 10 sites now.
And then this! Right before starting this post, I went to the truck to take a picture of the error message to show you all and this is what I see:
NOW the flow meter decides its going to work. Fml ...I can only hope tomorrow is better...
About the only positive thing that happened was that when our tent blew over (because the ground was too hard to push the stakes in and I forgot a mallot) the nice people at the campground turned our tent back over.
Updated: Well, the flow meter worked for approximately 1 stream and then crapped out again. Of the 10 streams we visited the 2nd day, only one had dried up. considering the almost month long absence of rain and heat wave we've been having, I consider myself lucky.
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