I was going to try to post more regularly this year, but things happen. The getting better part is that I feel I've let myself down by missing a whole week.
When I got back from Vegas, I hand wrote a long diatribe on the gambling and driving in that city and the drive home. However, when I got home, my wife had a huge head cold, which due to the hours I keep in Vegas (about 6 hours sleep over 4 days), I was not in shape to fight off. I spent the last two days of my vacation with mountains of kleenex piling up next to me in bed, then back to work for 6 days on day shift.
My project for this week was to stay out of the way while Schlumberger played with explosives and blew some new perforations in one of our injector wells. The other was to give our yard a high pressure enema to clean out some drains that had plugged up over the summer. If you've worked on oil wells, you know that great smell associated with brine and the wonderful feeling of the crap blowing back on you along with the sludge that builds up in field drains while it's 50 degrees down in the cellar. Cold, wet, stinky...that's how I like to spend my weekends.
If I can make it through my shift tomorrow, I will try to get my musings on the trip posted. I got over the cold last Friday, so I'm almost back to feeling normal.
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Although I spent most of my oil field days in a derrick of a drilling rig I have also worked the roustabout crews and even had a contract pumping job one time. The dirtiest job in the patch is pulling rods and tubing at the same time..a wet sting full of heavy sulpher crude..in mid winter with the wind blowing and it about 35F and misting rain. One of the reasons I stayed in the USAF..this old country boy new where the bread was buttered
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