Thank you, everybody, for your kind comments. It's been a weird sort of experience with the first crew that came in, all the injuries and replacements, extra drill crew, the miles of overburden, broken down drills, etc... I wish we'd started with the second crew... very normal people - it would have set a completely different tone. However, I'd do it again (and hope I will).
Next time it will be all about bugs, you can bet your boots on that. But hopefully we'll all do a thread about the ABQ meet up first.
(Roger, I think I do resemble RR, around the bosom area. But that's about it.
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Ciao for now and thanks again.