SO after a long two weeks out in the oilfields i get a could of days respite. Plane leaves at 1:45ish and im not sure what im going to do with my truck yet. but 55 min of air time and bam in MN and ready to not do much of anything extraneous for a week.

This week of work kinda started slow; and ended quick; with lots to do for every one friday, saturday, and sunday. we pretty much got to pump stright through on saturday into sunday execpt for a minor dely. every day it seems that im doing more engineering kinda stuff. its good to start to have a grasp of the acutal job im going to do. making plots, reading pressures and problem solving on the fly seems to be the 3 areas of focusl which ill be spending much of my time. yuup

anywhat it seems that this week me and pops, and heading out to south dakota and going to check out that van situation and see if it will run for me to get from point a to b and occasionally to point c. needs tires and about 120k less miles...maybe a newer type care may not be a bad iead....

well take care and enjoy the nice weather that we are having here; if you in the upper mid-west. see you soon;

andrew