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2001-05-25 - 12:25 a.m.

bear spray

Gonna have to make this quick, since I've got to fly at sunrise tomorrow. Not going to count much if I'm nodding off...

I realize I never reported on our second antelope count flight on Tuesday. Just too busy. Maybe I will later (or, maybe not).

A few things to wrap up on interesting notes and grousing about our meeting in Thermop.

In my last entry, I happily mentioned there had been no idiotic uses of the word "utilize." First speaker on the Wednesday session blew that away, with a pretentious "utilizing" in his PowerPoint slide that could easily and properly been "using."

I begin to see how anachronistic we are when they handed out some of the service awards that had come due in the past few months. One ten-year award. Two women received their 15-year awards. Two 20-year awards and three 25-year awards. And three guys received their plaques for working for the outfit for 30 years. Only one of these is retiring soon.

That tells you that 1) we're getting old, and 2) there is little turn around.

I suspect that many folks in the new economy are working for employers that haven't even been around for 15 years, much less any of the employees.

They passed a hat (literally, a cowboy hat) and in less than three minutes raised $216 for two kegs of beer. They were still working on them when I quit at 00:45.

I wish everybody had a "Harry" in their outfit. I can't tell you why, but if anyone from the outfit ever reads this and figures out where I am, they will know exactly what I mean. Any outfit would be improved if it had its own Harry.

We have great disease people. It is really reassuring to get the straight dope on stuff from the few people who know what is going on, and are in fact the people actually doing it (like "mad deer disease"). In describing the prion responsible for transmitting that disease, the expert described it as "a tenacious little fart."

Again heard the statistic that humans and chimpanzees have 98% of their DNA in common. But do you know what this really means? We all have 48 chromosomes, but some have two X and us males have XY. That means men and women have only 47 out of 48 chromosomes in common, or differ by 1 in 48, or 2.1%. Which means that, genetically, I and all other men have more in common with male chimpanzees than we do with any of you human females.

And I suspect that is no surprise to any of you.

Final, closing high point of the meeting. One fella, from bear country, left a can of bear spray on his dash. Heat of the sun this morning caused the can to explode, saturating the cab of his truck with pepper spray. Also blew a hole the size of a basketball in his windshield. He was concerned that the spray didn't even make his eyes water as he tried (uselessly) to clean the cab out. How would it do any good with a bear? Unless you could feed it to the bear, and hope it punctured the can with its teeth.

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