Well, today I propose you a totally useless journal entry describing my ordinary life. I have an interesting job of researcher in image processing and, last week, I spend more time at the office and in arena (as a spectator...) than at home.

One of those conferences took place in the old Human Palaeontology Institute, where the Pr. Henry de Lumley [link] was looking for volunteers for measuring the coordinate of the carved stones in the “Vallée des Merveilles”, in south of France. When I was student, I have manipulated GPS antenna and I still have some knowledge in Geodesy. As you can see on those pictures: [link] the sceneries are magnificent and only a few people are allowed to walk out of the paths (the prehistoric engravings are protected from the tourists), most of them are students in archaeology. The travel, the food and the accommodation are paid by the National Museum of Natural History. There are only one or two details concerning the accommodation: the refuge is in the mountain at more than 30 km of the nearer train station and could be reached only by foot or with a jeep… and I forget the most interesting! There are no electricity, no water, and no network in this refuge. Actually there is a petrol electric generating set for the GPS batteries and a mountain stream (do you know people who take shower with 5°C cold water?).

One must be really masochist to take one week off to go there to work as a surveyor... and I will probably do it. I am sure some of you where wondering if I was mental… I hope my journal entry gave you an answer. By the way, I wonder how many people, among the one who are reading these lines, have already taken part in an excavation or any archaeological projects?