Lowgrade 1,2,3

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Frank Blanchfield [mailto:Frank@pacmin.com.au]
Sent:   Sunday, 22 October 2000 6:10 PM
To:     Brown, David
Subject:        lowgrade 1,2,3,

If you are putting values here  you can chooses what is what as perer says thatthe sunmmary and oreby type sheets are not being used!

Good Morning.
Frank

This one does the rounds every few years. Initially it was often, and as time has passed, the period between sharing has grown. In fact the last time I believe was the email I copied this from - one Gully shared back in 2009, 11 years ago. Look at the date, this October marks the 20th anniversary of Lowgrade 1,2,3.

Frank was my boss then, back in my earlier years, when I was a production and planning engineer at Tarmoola, doing mine schedules, blast designs, that sort of thing. Judging by the email, both Peter and Frank were around then, which confuses me as I thought one replaced the other. But I suspect Peter was the boss for a period, and Frank the senior engineer. We were doing scheduling - a spreadsheet that Peter had created - and I had asked a few questions about what I could and could not do with it. Lowgrade 1,2,3 was Frank's response, and an absolutely typical Frank communique! The man has a lot of character, and I have had a number of meals with him over the years, particularly in my JMS days of 2006-2008.

But Frank had a tendency to become tongue-tied, both verbally and in the written form, and he would frequently give us a large dose of mirth by innocently trying to communicate something mundane, but doing so in an almost unintelligible manner! Plus the "Good Morning. Frank" sign-off just put the cream on the cake for this one. Of all the emails, on all the sites, across all the years, this is the only one that survives to this day, at least between Gully, Adam and myself. I shall rattle their cages on October 22 this year to celebrate the day!