Morning Report - Day 7 - Thursday, March 13th

The Morning Report with AK Andy - March 14th 2014 ~ 05:20 (UTC +1:00) 

   доброе утро! Dobroye utro! Oh, Thursday, was a quite day for sure. Didn't really have much work to do in the morning besides trying to organize the BBQ for the Techs this weekend. In typical EG fashion nothing is easily accomplished. Talk with the catering company in the morning right before lunch. They said no problem just send them a list of the menu items we would like, approximate amounts, etcetera. By the late afternoon, they told us, "We can't do it." Right now I wish we had a Dominoes to call up and order 30 pizzas and be done with it.  

   I also was reminded in the afternoon just how awesome it is to work here. We have another field engineer filling in on loan from a different location. We were both asked to set up a tool in the calibration area so that way he could start calibrating it first thing Friday morning. No wahala, I have done this before. During the set up in the very hot afternoon sun he stated several times, "I have never done this before. We always have it set up for us. We just come and calibrate the tool. This is so different." To which I wanted to responded, "Buck up!" Instead, "Ya man, we do it ourselves here. It just comes with the territory." Which I suppose is a nicer way of saying the same thing. Don't get me wrong, he is a really great guy, knows his stuff, and is a definite help right now.
   The rest of the day was filled with web surfing, reading operations manuals, chatting with friends on Facebook (a welcome reprieve to the manuals), and Skyping the parents in the evening. I finally picked up a web cam this last days off, so I got to show them the beauty of EQG right at sun set. Granted, the sunset was on the other side of the hotel, but the early evening environment is still very pretty, and the hotel has a nice pool. :)   

Last full day being onshore for a while. Rig, here I come! Maybe... they could always delay the flight. Ha!