And every day you're in this place you're two days nearer death

Actually, its not that bad, if you dont mind dark, cool, and VERY dirty. Seriously, so dirty. I'm up at a diamond mine in Prince Albert (No I haven't found any, no I can't take a sample home). But it's wet. Very wet. Apparently there's like a lake right above one spot. And muddy. Thank God for rubber boots and stuff, except for the damn uncomfortable part. Man, those things hurt my feet. The gear is pretty interesting. There's the standard, steel toes, skid lid, coveralls, but the lid is a cool miners helmet (which is more or less the same, but with a rim all the way around and clip on the front), the headlamp, and a big safety belt. Also interesting, is the underground board. If you've ever seen October Sky, they have that peg board, and the miners put their tag on the underground side when they go in in case of a cave in or something. They have one of those here. So I got my tag... this is probably a lot more interesting if you're here now that I read over it. But the other cool thing is the bucket. It's this steel bin you climb into, then they raise it up like 10 feet to open the hole in the floor. When you're up in the air it feels like the drop of doom. I was waiting for the buzzer then the gut wrenching plunge. Luckily that didn't happen, but man, they lower you fast. Like stomach up in my throat fast. With walls whizzing past (in the dark) it's actually a little freaky. But, 235m later you are at the bottom. Good times.

Anyway, this is much more interesting to me than probably the rest of you. Wish I had the camera to get some pics, but my brother has 'borrowed' mine, which means who knows when I'll see it again.

K, I'm gonna bounce