Remember that Gerry was going to an old timers' hockey tournament? He writes: [20030410] The oldtimers' tournament was fun, but our team didn't do as well as we had hoped. After the tournament, I had to go to Fiji for 3 weeks -work, unfortunately (7 days a week) and more unfortunately, in Suva [weep for Gerry]. The attached photos give a false impression.
Oh, yeah, "...false impression". This is photographic evidence to the contrary. Now 'whaaaay back in the olden days one winter the webmaster surveyed Highway 16 from New Hazelton west to Kitseguecla aaand the temperature was below zero Fahrenheit aaand the instrument was an antique non erecting Dumpy so long that the ends drooped and it contained so much brass that he staggered down the road beneath it aaand it had a sliding lens so focussing sucked moisture into the barrel and so both lenses fogged up in the cold so then you had to set an i.p. every six feet and the chainman and rodman had to chop through the ice on the road with an axe to search for every chainage station aaand...aaand...aaand oh, yes; them thaar were the days of iron men and wooden instruments. Seven days a week? Why we worked eight days a week and let me tell you that it didn't look at all like the South Pacific! The South Pacific it wasn't. Now that was engineering work. Just look at these photographs of the conditions which Gerry endured there on Fiji. Just look at how these gears suffer!
Another name for Fiji, of course, is "The Cannibal Isles" but the Fijians had more taste than to dine upon tough, stringy engineers.
