by rjhale | Jan 28, 2025 | GIS, Rambling
I found myself sitting in a hospital talking to a doctor: Doc: You sure you haven’t had a heart attack? Me: I’m pretty sure…..Wouldn’t I know? Doc: Well……Yes and no. It was a conversation I didn’t want to have but there I sat...
by rjhale | Jun 18, 2022 | Rambling
Welcome to my ramblings this morning on the official blog of NRGS. So way back when I was a geology person. I did the time. Got the paper. Never practiced the art. Instead I was lured into the sordid world of mapping. From 1989 to about 1991 I rambled through college...
by rjhale | Apr 20, 2022 | Rambling, Small Business, Training
Back on Feb 12th of 2020 I was sitting in Virginia at a conference going “Yeah I dunno – this whole virus thing sounds weird”. Two years later I was walking into Montgomery Bell State Park at the first in-person conference I’ve been to since...
by rjhale | Dec 28, 2021 | GIS, Rambling, Small Business
Just to prepare for the 2021 edition I went back and re-read the 2020 edition. Yikes. So I started writing and I’ve changed this post up several times. I’ve decided much like I did last year “this is the final shot with a few edits”. 2020 was...
by rjhale | May 11, 2021 | GIS, Rambling
Probably. Hopefully. I’ve not had a dog in years. It bugs me – I’ve never made the room or the time because there always is something else happening. There was one unfinished bit from a blog 6 years ago and that story ended this week. Actually it...
by rjhale | Mar 25, 2021 | QGIS, Rambling, Training
I’ve been debating shaking up the blog portion of the website for a bit. I start writing and then go “What’s the point” and I’m sitting on a half dozen technical/non-technical things I’ve been working on. So anyway – where to...