Hey Barb,

Your book arrived yesterday - that was FAST!...I'm almost getting used to jonesing for ANYTHING that has to do with kilts.

Had a chance to glance through it after work last night before I stumbled into George Carlins HBO gig and lost my mind.

Don't know that I'll ever risk cutting and sewing a kilt, but it sure is great to have the knowledge and understanding...and all them definitions. But who knows, my minor 40 years ago was Clothing and Textiles.

On the geology front. One of my maternal uncles was geologist George Burke Maxey who has the Desert Research Institute named after him at Univ of Nevada. He came out of Princeton then spent a lot of time at Univ of Illinois before settling in Nevada. I'm still close to a lot of his kids, my cousins. He was a hell of a guy and knew his geology well to get to be a big shot. Think a lot of his work was around underground water for the AEC when they were blowing up nukes near Las Vegas.