Well, another week has passed installing magnetotelluric stations throughout 
Washington. Thankfully, the project has started to move into 
the Cascades and Western Washington away from the boring plains and hot weather of the East. It has been difficult to work with Jeff
because he has a severe anger management problem, road rage, smokes, and is generally just an ass. We have driven across the state twice this week and my days have been 13-15 hour long days of driving. The field work is still relatively easy although I've had to keep an eye on Jeff 
so 
that I can fix his mistakes. I'm not going to say a word to the other crew members but if I was in charge he would not be an employee of mine for sure. Thankfully today I was set off on my own while he joined up with Trey to install sites. It's nice to know that they find me competent enough to maintenance sites on my own. Tomorrow 
I'll pick up a helper in Yakima named Joe Dean or something.
Hopefully he will be easier to work with than Jeff. Because I've been 
working with Jeff I don't have any really interesting stories like I did while working with Jen. Thus, I'll just post a bunch of
pictures with this blog entry of some of the cooler sites I saw. The northern Cascades are truly beautiful to drive through with rivers and lakes glowing a blue green color due to the copper dissolved in the water that rusted
(think green statue 
of liberty). I've seen a ton of deer, had lhamas try to stick their heads 
in the truck, got a glimpse of Mt. Baker in the clouds, got chased by some cows while trying to back out of a field, and I
took a ferry today from Seattle to Olympia. I got so close to the deer in the picture that I was able to tell it a joke... enlarge the picture by clicking it to see it's reaction.
Emily is off at wedding in a tropical paradise and I miss hearing her
voice. I 
haven't even been able to properly call Nicolette to check in on Ellie
either because I'm always out of cell phone range until it is too late to call the East Coast. I'm going to be very happy to get a break this Friday to do some backpacking on the Continental Divide. 7 days a week for 4 weeks straight now has been tiring. Anyway, enjoy the pics.
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