RE: [Texascavers] ICS related

2009-08-05 Thread Butch Fralia
I'd be happy to work (as time permits) on a set of text and photo pages for the TSA website if folks who were there would provide the photos and text. Butch Fralia TSA Webmaster -Original Message- From: David [mailto:dlocklea...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 11:49 PM To: texa

Re: [Texascavers] ICS Related

2009-08-02 Thread Don Arburn
Live to work Or Work to live. Don's iPhone. On Aug 2, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Nancy Weaver wrote: Vacation is more precious than money Many places will not let one take time off without pay. Maybe the question is - whose life is this anyway and what am I willing to trade for it? Nnacy

Re: [Texascavers] ICS Related

2009-08-02 Thread Charles Goldsmith
Yes I do, and I did consider it, but I decided not to, I didn't want to dig into my savings for this trip, I spent enough as it was, dang vendors :) Charles On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Don Cooper wrote: > Charles - do you have an option to take "leave" (unpaid time off) rather > than "vacatio

RE: [Texascavers] ICS Related

2009-08-02 Thread Nancy Weaver
Vacation is more precious than money Many places will not let one take time off without pay. Maybe the question is - whose life is this anyway and what am I willing to trade for it? Nnacy

Re: [Texascavers] ICS Related

2009-08-02 Thread Don Cooper
Charles - do you have an option to take "leave" (unpaid time off) rather than "vacation"? If not - would you have made that choice instead? -DC On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Charles Goldsmith wrote: > The same for me Denise, but I took off 7 days out of my 10 that I get > a year (2 weeks = 10

RE: [Texascavers] ICS Related

2009-08-01 Thread Linda Palit
: Denise P [mailto:pepabe...@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 8:37 AM To: TexasCavers Subject: RE: [Texascavers] ICS Related I did not forsake pay, but as vacation time is more precious to me than money (I'd take time off without pay if I could), I'd say donating 1/3 of

Re: [Texascavers] ICS Related

2009-08-01 Thread Charles Goldsmith
The same for me Denise, but I took off 7 days out of my 10 that I get a year (2 weeks = 10 working days) of vacation, so it was a big sacrifice for me as well. It was a paid vacation, but I get so little of it... Very painful On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Denise P wrote: > I did not forsake pa

RE: [Texascavers] ICS Related

2009-08-01 Thread Denise P
I did not forsake pay, but as vacation time is more precious to me than money (I'd take time off without pay if I could), I'd say donating 1/3 of my annual vacation time to ICS was no small deal to me. Painful in fact... -Denise List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Sat, 1 Aug 200

Re: [Texascavers] ICS related

2009-08-01 Thread vivbone
Steve'smargin of error was actually .02 inches. Way less than 2 cm. He brought his own equipment from Nevada, and spenta lot of time on it. It is greatly appreciated. I'll be doing awrite up on the results. It's not often we get a chance to compare severalsurvey team's (seven to be exact) da

Re: [Texascavers] ICS related

2009-07-31 Thread Herman Miller
6 I think Vermont will be a nice vacation though I really don't see myself doing much caving there. The Czech Republic would be nice to get back to, I've only gone there for air shows though unfortunately I'd prefer to spend 5K on more caving / diving gear. 10 My good friend Steve Deveny proofe