Blogs from Montana, United States, North America - page 82

The month and a half of studing and preperation reached it's climax the week of January 8th, when I sat for my Master's Exams on Monday and Wednesday. These Master's Exams are a series of tests each with four questions and with a sitting time of 2 hours, they can ask anything within the Mathematical subjects of: Analysis (the study of "smooth" functions and their properties) Abstract Algebra (the study of 'sets' -a list of objects, and an operation(s) associated with them -i.e. addition and multiplication) Linear Algebra (the study of a Vector Spaces and operations on them -this is the matrix stuff, not the movie but the little boxes with numbers in them) Topology (the study of set and a property that sets can have being "open", "closed", "both" or "neither") A friend of mine ... read more

We haven’t had internet access for a few days so bit of a delayed entry with what we’ve been up to. On Sunday 19th we set off from Medicine Hat in Canada at 0500 in the morning and at a nice temperature of about -5 degrees. Bearing in mind we’d only go to Canada a few hours before we were quite sleepy to start. We made it down to the US border in a couple of hours and eventually entered Montana. Well if we thought it was cold in Med Hat, it was nothing compared to Montana. On the border it was windy and hitting probably about -15 degrees. We then stopped at what appeared to be a ghost town called Conrad. There was literally no one about - all the shops were closed, did not ... read more

October 3 - 20, 2006 Milwaukee, Wis. - Little Bighorn Battlefield, Mont. 22,384 miles to date 2,241 miles this leg NOTE ABOUT NEW PHOTO FORMAT: You may have noticed that the photo format has recently changed on this (free) blogging service. If we post more than 30 photos per entry (highly likely), then the majority of the photos appear as tiny thumbnails at the bottom of the entry. But the captions and titles are still there (fear not!), and here are two easy ways to view them in the new format: 1) Click on the first thumbnail and then scroll through the photos in order using the forward and back arrows, like a slideshow. The images show up big and the captions and titles appear alongside. 2) At the end of the blog text, and just ... read more

Like the title says both Montana winter and the bankers are looming over our home project now!!! Winter will wait for no one and the bankers are getting pretty antsy aslo. Not to mention the ants that are crawling up both of our pants! Currently our biggest project is getting the siding on. The metal (1st 4 feet of siding) is primarily all on the house. We have a little bit to put on where the front porch will eventually be, but that will come right at the end. We have been staining siding, fir siding, 12" wide boards as of late. We're about halfway done with staining the boards. Once they are done we will hang them all - they are screwed in with at least 11 screws in each board. We have one side ... read more

. Brrr… it was chilly this morning - probably not because it was any colder than it has been the past couple of days, only that we were up a lot earlier!! It is a good thing that we are staying one more night or we really would have had to get up early! Today our objective was to fill in some of the blanks that we had missed in earlier days… Statistics Starting Destination: West Yellowstone, Montana Ending Destination: West Yellowstone, Montana Ending Destination GPS: N: 44° 39.348’ W: 111° 06.390’ Elev: 6704’ Miles Driven: 135.6 Miles Biked: 14.4 Most Interesting Geyser Watching Attire: Insulated Carhart pants, hooded sweatshirt and Teva’s without sox! Backtracking - Part One: Back to the Crack! img=http://img299.imageshack.us/img... read more