Done with the ASBOG

I took the ASBOG test on Friday up in Raleigh. It was difficult but not to bad, there was a lot on earthquakes & faults and lots of mining that are not areas I am that familiar with. It did not have as much Hydro or mapping as I thought and there were not as many problems needing math formulas as I thought their would be. I thought the fundamentals part was the easier of the 2 and am sure I passed, I will have to wait on the practical part to know for sure if I passed that but overall I think it went well.

After that I went to the Raleigh International Festival and had a good time and some very interesting food. I also went down to Wilmington, NC on the way to Raleigh (not exactly on the way from Charlotte but better than a separate trip) to get my TWIC Card application, photo, and fingerprinting done. They tried to do enter me for over 2 hours but kept having computer problems. It would get part way through and they would have to start over (They have no way to save it until they process the entire application) this happened 5 times. In the end I wasted about 5 hours and will have to go back and start over when they fix their computer which is ridiculous since they have so few facilities and it is about a 4 hour drive each way. Maybe the Federal government needs to get some computers that are not antiques and actually hire programmers to design a program that works and doesn't require a restart anytime they don't finish entering it. The mess in Wilmington cost me a couple of hours I could have used for some last minute studying for the ASBOG.

On a side note, I found an interesting site of blogs all focused on geology:

http://geoblogs.stratigraphy.net/?action=list