January and February.  What can I say?  These two months are excruciating.  Its extremely cold and dark.  I either lost, or somebody stole my wonderful waterproof Carhartt jacket.  It was an awesome jacket, because it stopped the wind, had tons of pockets, and was made of medium-weight nylon, so it didnt make me too hot ( Read more... )

( Just a bit of musing on a failed relationship )

I am still reeling from the effects of ingesting so much ethanol (that's the active component in alcohol) on New Year's Eve.  My usual defense of drinking copious amounts of water and taking a certain amino-acid which acts as a methyl-donor were ignored ( Read more... )

I have come to detest my job.  The work has always been hard and grueling, both mentally and physically.  But in a large part, certain people I have worked with have made up for that.  But for the majority of this year, as I have slowly progressed, my position has become increasingly more isolated.  So what does that really leave me with?  A hard ( Read more... )

Ugh, its going to take 2 months to find out my test results.  Utterly preposterous. 

Spent two weeks at the largest coal burning power plant in North America.  Then I had one day off and drove to Texas (16 hour drive) to take an ultrasound test.  Very difficult test, not sure whether I passed.  Drove back home (another 16 hour drive ( Read more... )

I just read a really neat book called "Who Moved My Cheese?". My brother gave it to me about a year and a half ago. It had just been laying on my bookshelf. Then I came across a review of it on Amazon.com this weekend. So I picked it up and gave it a good read. Wasn't long, only a hundred pages.

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Broke up with my girlfriend. She was trying to get a little too controlling. The catalyst came when my brother came into town for a week. I spent some time with him, and then she was craving attention so I spent time with her too. Then we all went out Thursday and Friday night. As I was recovering from a massive hangover Saturday and Sunday, ( Read more... )

My American Petroleum Institute ultrasound test is in November. Its already July. This is purely a performance demonstration qualification. I'm having extreme trouble in getting samples to practice on. The test consists of two plates and two pipes. They all have a single weld in them, with various welding flaws (lack of fusion, lack of ( Read more... )