I had to have met 30 people today! It was awesome to walk into the brand new shop and have so many people welcome me openly. I got to work around 8:30 and met an old friend from Halliburton training. There were still 6 trucks at the shop and everyone was busily working making sure the trucks were ready to go in the next two days. Essentially all the trucks will be gone by Wednesday, but I have a mandatory class (H2S training) on Thursday. So I will have to catch up with my truck and crew in a few days. In the mean time a very new engineer (2 weeks since breaking out) from Scotland will be up there with the truck. I met Matt, my boss, at around 11 and he said that he didnt have a phone or truck for me to drive so I would need to keep carpooling with Don and he would get me a phone ASAP. Also, there is no winter gear for any of us! No winter coveralls, coats, etc... So we are going to have to find them somewhere... I tried to help out the guys leaving today and tomorrow the most by printing out a checklist for everything that should be on the trucks and actually found that many things were missing - I think they appreciated it.
I went to lunch today at a place called Rosies. I got a melt with aus jue sauce and fries and it was really good. Yes, they have normal ketchup here and not the weird stuff they have in Europe. The funny thing is we kept on asking the lady to reccommend us somthing but she kept pushing the breakfast. We would say, well what do you have here that is really really good and she would say (breakfast item, breakfast item, breakfast item) then we would say, well were really in the mood for lunch and she said well you could try (more breakfast items...) then we went back and forth two more times. I guess she had a hankering for some eggs or somthing.
Im finding that this move to Canada will be hard being away from my awesome wife, but it will breathe new life into my career which I was getting burnt out. Also, from talking to people it seems like this will be amazingly easy jobs. The wells are only 900' deep, no calibrations (ever!), and no prints! So what do I have to do you ask, problem solve, click uplog/open caliper, and make a tiff/las file. The only problem that I think I am going to face is getting burnt out of being at the camp. 90 days is a long time, and its looking even longer the closer that I am actually going to have to leave civilization and be at the remote camp.
Skype, Google talk, FaceTime are officially the best websites in the world right now! (and probably the next 3 months) Chelsea and I have found it really easy to get ahold of each other and talk. Being able to see each others face on top of that is awesome! I talked with her two times yesterday and one time today for a really long time - for free!!! How can Skype be making a profit if its so easy for people to talk for free? Its awesome. Im sure that Skype will keep me alive for the next three months.
So I found out today that gambling of all sorts is legal in this city! I smell a small trip to the casino in the near future. =)
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