I finally depart for the oilfields. I have less than 24 hours. We will be in Red Deer by 09:00 Tuesday morning and will be doing some work in the shop that day preparing our equipment for the coming job. Coop is on the crew with us as the day hand, so I'm psyched because that was something we were hoping for all along. After the work on Tuesday, we ( Read more... )

What Your Soul Really Looks Like
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You Are 32% Lady
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Judge Claude Frollo
36% evil #1, 32% evil #2, 69% evil #3, 100% evil #4 Movie: The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( Read more... )

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Raptor
ROAR! You're 77% Dinotastic!! Aren't you a clever one? Nearly everone is scared of you. The ones who aren't generally end up as lunch. You like the finer things in life, like a good hunt, a good triceratops steak, and a relaxing evening discussing the finer points of evolution in the Jurrasic and Cretaceous Periods. Stomping around ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my final shift at Sun Life Plaza. I'll admit that it feels really odd that I know longer work there. I am no longer a security officer. I turned in my access fob, taped to my security license. I completed my last tower check, the East Tower. Kicked out my last vagrant, a urine soaked, wheel-chair ridden native who had to push himself ( Read more... )

The journey was short, and we arrived at our destination to find clouds looming overhead with a quiet promise of rain. Deftly setting up camp, we were soon sitting around the fire pit basking in the wilderness that would be our home for a day. The wind whipped our tarp around, making a mockery of our meager measure against the rain we were sure ( Read more... )

"Why didn't you just say you wanted out?" The warden says, rubbing his head where I smacked him with the shackles; his skull had been more resilient than I had anticipated. I stare at him dumbfounded ( Read more... )

You Are 28 Years Old
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