Oldtent Archives 2007 - 2008

There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
There’s too much confusion
I can’t get no relief

All Along the Watchtower

take care Humanoid…. may a force be with you

Re: How Geologist find Oil & Gas  in the IMDB section under energy. I realized that very few people had a clue about what an Independent Exploration Geologist really did. When I was in college not any of my fellow geology students had a clue either. Everyone has this major company image of a geologist with a pick standing  on an outcrop on top of a mountain in his sheep skin jacket smoking a marboro cigarette. Or maybe a guy in a lab wearing a white flock holding a beaker of oil.

I was raised in the oil patch and knew better. The geologists I knew drove up in a new cadillac, were hard drinking, high stakes poker players and had money to burn. Most were respectable J.R. types with yachts and airplanes and were enjoying life to the fullest. The hardest work I saw them do was unroll their geologic map, and point in the direction of where the next well would be drilled after examining a schlumberger log and declaring the the well was a producer instead of a dry hole. All exciting stuff to a rig brat. I found out it was as easy as it looked and more fun than I imagined.

Oh, there were hard times that I quicky forgot about when getting started and paying my dues to get experience. Working the  grave yard shift on a mud logging unit, and holidays in the freezing rain sampling and describing cores on a rig pipe ramp. A whole different world than most imagine that a geologist works for a nice salary from a major oil company. Many do of coarse but the romance and real money is in being an Independent exploring for the mother lode. Be it real Gold or Blackgold.

Hopefully my true stories give an insight and taste of the real world of the hard working, “lucky” Independent exploration Geologist.

www.kitco.com/ind/Aden/aden_jan032008.html

I am saddened to hear about Humanoid. It’s been a hell of a start to the new year .. Please tell him my thoughts are with him and I’m hoping he will recover , be well again and pain free. 

And many thanks for the tireless and never ending acts of kindness that you do,   AuGirl  

….for a private group tour..?

…I think that comment was 2 days ago…took you so long to answere a simple Question..?

…does your mother know you play with old folks on the Internet….?

….Really I’m very impressed to have a 22 year old gold bug present….

…do your friends know you are nutz..?

FGC on our way to Jekyll Island, maybe also do a group shot at Fort Knox — They are real accommodating there.   

…….Hero in the Trenches…hope you still have time to savour this a little…….

…….I’m still thinking Jekyll Island 1000….thats Loonies or Bucks whatever goes first….

…can you imagine the press we’d get..?

….Fed Birthplace invaded by the Dreaded Goldbugs…..

…they come to bury the FedHeads not to praise them……

And I told you I don’t give a damn if you think my handle sucks! lol

Yes I’m the 22 year old and it’s fine, I like to visit this old peoples home once in a while!

Yeah your 29 and think you know it all Haaaaa

…4 and a half months later we say hello to 888..and all time highs…

..the POG Gods Move in mysterious ways……

Just got back from a 6hr. drive But,in Hummy’s defense I know he was up to about 15 drops a day before we went to Belize. He had just gotten sick and then a little better from a class he took[it caused havoc with his back. He calmed down a bit so he came with me but was afraid of the mms on the plane and in Belize. Then he went down with spazams in our co-owners driveway on day 3 in Belize. He might have been a little too late. But he is a tough scrawny fighter. He called me in the car and was not going in to radiology till morning. Dang tumor is on his T-11 and causing all the leg and bladder problems He might say the heck with it after a couple doses and get discharged. Then we can try and load him up with everything we have[cause he will give it a try]. Right now I don’t know till I talk to him tomorrow.

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/schoon/schoon010908.html