URNotAlone

Exhausted!

May 27th, 2008 11:24 am MDT

After 3 weeks of non stop (and I mean non stop as in not even a pee break for 8hrs) work I've finally made it home.  Been working on a land rig for a change and we were running a two man crew instead of the 4 I'm used to offshore, so it really was do it yourself.
Drilling at 180ft/hr and trying to catch geology samples every 10ft is nigh on impossible, even for me, but that's what the company wanted so we had to do our best.  There were days when the only time I sat down was at 5am to do the morning reports and to drive the 40miles back to the hotel.  Rumble strips are a godsend believe me.
Upshot of all this is I am absolutely creamed (cream crackered - knackered - very tired for all my non British readers) and in severe need of some TLC.  Thankfully off to St Lucia for a long weekend on Friday so plan on doing nothing but read, drink and get pummled in the spa.  If I get the chance I'm getting my nails sorted as work has completely trashed then (again!).
Hopefully my bunch of idiots will be able to persuade the idiots at the oil company that a 2 man crew just is not going to work so when I go back for another 3 weeks it won't be quite so hectic.  Fingers crossed anyway.