Last night there was an El Camino in my dream. I'm pretty sure that it was this one. I don't know what that means. Is it significant if you dream about an El Camino?
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Last night there was an El Camino in my dream. I'm pretty sure that it was this one. I don't know what that means. Is it significant if you dream about an El Camino?
We had some problems again today. The water unexpectedly rose and flooded our prep area. The flooding made it more difficult for me to get from my truck to the barge. The situation was exacerbated because I had so many layers of clothing on that I was almost wider than I am tall.
I had to come down a little hill on the right, then walk across the boards in the upper right, climb up onto the trailer, walk across the trailer, pull the boat over, walk through the boat, climb over the anchor line across the boat, pull the boat over to the barge and then climb up onto the barge.
It made me feel like I was doing an obstacle course in a sumo suit.
This is why I was wearing so many layers. The wind was so cold it froze the water the second it stopped moving. Burrr.
Oh wait, we are working the weekend.
This is how my week has gone.
Monday-5 feet of drilling in 10 hours of work. For reference I expect that we should get around 50 feet done in a good day.
Tuesday- 5 feet in 10 hours again
Wednesday-
This happened. That rod on the right used to look like the one on the left, but the bit sheared off during drilling and wore the threads off of the rod. We couldn't retrieve the bit and we can't drill through the bit, so that meant that we had to scratch that location and move 5 feet away and start over.
Today- I woke up to several inches of snow on the ground. The drive into work was harrowing over the pass, but the brutal part was the wind. The drillers spent 5 hours getting the rig up and running.
Luckily my waitress didn't sit me at this table for dinner tonight.
This is how my week has gone.
Monday-5 feet of drilling in 10 hours of work. For reference I expect that we should get around 50 feet done in a good day.
Tuesday- 5 feet in 10 hours again
Wednesday-
Today- I woke up to several inches of snow on the ground. The drive into work was harrowing over the pass, but the brutal part was the wind. The drillers spent 5 hours getting the rig up and running.
Luckily my waitress didn't sit me at this table for dinner tonight.
Now that would have been pathetic.
My mother studied health sciences in college and she is paranoid when it comes to germs in public places. She indoctrinated me well at a young age. To this day I am still terrified of public bathrooms.
The State of Washington Public Health has an ad campaign right now that is to promote basic health practices. It is a song called Washyourhandsington. Every time I hear it on the radio I giggle. So I thought that I would share it with you. The link is below. Enjoy and don't forget to wash your hands.
Washyourhandsington
The State of Washington Public Health has an ad campaign right now that is to promote basic health practices. It is a song called Washyourhandsington. Every time I hear it on the radio I giggle. So I thought that I would share it with you. The link is below. Enjoy and don't forget to wash your hands.
Washyourhandsington
The drillers decided to take the weekend off and it was a welcome relief for me. I was so excited to sleep in my own bed last night.
Today while I was running errands I made a stop by Chambers Bay park on my way home. The park is located on the Puget Sound between a world class golf course and a wastewater treatment plant. Originally the land was one of the largest gravel pits in the United States. It is an awesome park with a big walking trail, a dog run, a large grassy area and a bridge over the railroad tracks down to the water.
I did the construction observation for the shafts that the bridge is built on. It was a tricky job with lots of challenges, including night work due to tides, multiple crossings of the railroad tracks every hour and strange soil conditions due to the quarry leftovers.
The day was sunny and clear so I had a fantastic view of the Olympic Mountains. My most favorite mountain range in the world.
The day was windy so there were lots of sailboats out on the water. It made me long to have a sailboat of my own.
Here is a view of the pedestrian bridge from above.
We had a ward activity this afternoon. We had fun eating brisket, shooting guns and sitting around the campfire. With those yahoos on the right it's lucky that no one got shot.
I recently traveled to Atlanta to visit my cousin Laura. We had so much fun while I was there.
Amazingly enough to start off my trip I ran into my cousin Warren at the Denver Airport.
Here he is with his darling family. I hadn't seen him for years and had never met his kids.
On my first night in Atlanta we ate at the Varsity and then grabbed a dessert on the top floor of the Westin Hotel which had a rotating floor so that you could see the full panorama of the city while you are eating. For my poor carsick prone body it was a little bit of a challenge, but it was a blast!
Our next stop was Coke World and then the CNN center.
This is Stone Mountain. It is a monument to the Confederate army. I just don't get the devotion to the Confederates. The history was interesting about how the Union army took Atlanta. I was also fascinated by the geology of the batholith.
I was in Atlanta for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. On Monday we went into the city to see the parade. Before the parade started we stopped off at Underground Atlanta.
Underground Atlanta is a little touristy shopping place.
The parade was really late in starting and it was cold and rainy. Finally we gave up and went to a little market and had a piece of sweet potato cheesecake pie.
Bill Clinton said that this was the best piece of sweet potato cheesecake pie. It was the best one I had ever had as well. Although, I'm not really sure where you would ever find a piece of sweet potato cheesecake pie other than here.
After our pie we found a spot underneath an overpass where we could watch the parade. We shared some turkey drumsticks for lunch. I wish that I had a picture of the parade. Different sororities and fraternities marched in the parade and each had their own stomp group. I loved watching them perform. It was probably one of my favorite parts of my trip to Atlanta.
Last of all we walked down to the house that MLK grew up in.
Here is the church where he and his father preached at. It was on the way.
Here's our whole group in front of the house. Nearby was also a National Monument dedicated to MLK Jr. It was a really good exhibit. We saw the video on the contributions of children in the civil rights movement. It was fascinating. They had some really ingenious ideas, for example they had the children march so that if/when they got arrested the parents could still continue to work and keep their jobs.