Touch of ND winter

Joe&Brian in proper PPE

 Sleepy today. Coffee fixed that. 
















Worked on rigging-setting up/down. 7a-7:30p long day. Rain came shortly afternoon. Chilled  me down quite a bit. We took a short break, put some layers on, then warmed up. To me that 27-35 rain/snow mix is the coldest. the wind picked up later, but the rain subsided. Im pretty sleepy. So yeah, ill throw up some pics then its off to bed for me. 
~a

SAF-T, AED CPR

Goal 2: stay warm, as the temperature drops to ~30 with
 the possibility of snow rain mix, and 11+ hours outside tomorrow. 
Goal 3:get blog theme music 

 Well I think today went real smoothly for the 7th day in a row. Today I'm would be right near ~70 hours worked. Mostly all training. Today was the Marathon Oil (who apparently had a fatal accident in ND yesterday), CPR, First aid, and "save a back" training day. When you mash all that into one day, people get kinda jittery, and wary. Yes other days went longer, however the lack of breaks, and many videos back to back made today seem like forever.


Marathon Oil training was pretty much a recap of all the PEC (Precision Engineering and Consultancy, I belive...) training. But yeah, whenever we are on a marathon rig, we have to have their training on top of all the other courses. So upon completing this additional 2-3 hour class we get a sticker so everyone stays happy. CPR was just a simple review, it looked like just about everyone had taken CPR/First aid at some point. Get and AED, call 911, 30 compressions, 2 breaths, grasp first glove, gently pull the glove away from the palm, and toward the fingers, turning the glove inside out. remove the second glove inside out, trapping the first glove inside...AED was pretty much the exact same as any other AED training that I have had previously; Allow AED to analyze heart; stop all movement. Near the end of all the classes every one was restless, and attention spans are only so long, even added with multiple coffees...The training got me all learned so now I can lift things, sit in good posture (I just sat up straighter, as you probs did too), and many other random general safety things.


 Other then that tomorrow we all seem to be looking forward to "SAF-T" training, 7a-7p on site safety work outside. I checked the weather and it looks like ~38 and rain/snow mix coming down... so it the first day we might get some push from the sky. They said "it ain,t real trainen if it ain't rainen". Yeah a warm shower tomorrow morning may be the warmest Ill be tomorrow. But I am not too worried about it. When dudes came up from Florida, and have no idea, I kinda have an advantage. The Grand Marais winter+Morris winter, probs isn't too far from up here.


 Well thanks for reading I hope every one had a pretty ok Monday, and as excited for Tuesday as I am.
 Peace/love 
AS

English grammar

Goal one; Spell, and use English grammar, correctly; if only to appease the multiple requests from my fellow oil comrades. here goes;

First day with the steel-toe boots, hard hat, and red cover-alls. Yeah it was a good day of working outside, and getting a little sweat going. A great change from the classrooms and Power Point presentations we've been getting non-stop for the past 6 days. I still feel like I'm spinning. There are endless places to explore and speed up the pace of life. No mater your reason for being here....
I have just walked back from the man camp sauna. Not the same with no cool lake to jump in. However it was a sauna, in the middle Williston ND, an oil boom, and 700 miles from the winter sauna on the Dominion Isle. So in other words; it was great to sit, sweat, and have some solitude. It seems that every place is crowed here. Very few quiet places to sit, reflect, and catch your breath. There has been a never ending stream of info (however relevant or not) that we have been getting streamed to us via HR, word of mouth, and our instructors.  And I know that it is only going to get ten times crazier, working 80-90 hours a week, as to this weeks, 59.
  
Sweeping, and picking up trash today. Sunday our first optional first day off. I figured I had little else to do. I came here to work, so why refuse a learning experience, and  pull chance to pull another 10 hours?
 We arrived there and the grounds guy who we worked with, knew about the jobs, we all we were going to do. This dudes nick name would be definitively bubba, but its not PC for nicknames. however "Bubba" defiantly had some non-PC things to say... But yeah he told us common pitfalls, all about the opportunities, and about the web site. He also shared his aspirations to work in the employee relations. He talked to us about the actual rubber/road dynamics of safety, and how safety is above all else. No matter what color your hat ( new employees have green hats) if you see something unsafe it is your responsibility to enforce the "stop work" policy. 
Well its getting late... I better catch some rack. 
-a


also... I ask the lady every day, if she has stamps, shes all out, always. So those looking for that ND postage stamp, will have to wait until I get to the Post Office.

sunday, even

Addy;

Andrew D. Shay 208

BearPaw Lodge 

13589 57th St. NW

Williston ND 58801

"Have you found me yet? good". says the truck driver to the service tech. Tonight we found some pretty great pizza at the Wildcat pizzeria. "Wildcat" the specific pizza we had, Mushrooms, sausage, pepperoni, and green peppers. Very tasty. So there was a picture taken of the taps. not by me, but yeah it was a pretty great picture,(took down)

Prior to that we finally got some details about the job we are doing, as well at a tour of the grounds. We checked out the Pump station, the shop, the engineering dept, and got a quick and dirty 20 min fraking crash course by Jay, the grounds crewman, who seemed like he knew just enough about every thing to help us green hats out. Also he offered work tomorrow, over our first day off, which would be all overtime...pretty temping, I think I'm on board. 

     DDC-defense driving today, went smoothly, with a big chunk of time waiting for people to get their behind the while stuff done. The course was pretty simple, just driving around Williston, and keeping the speed limit. 

   I'm excited to get a little more of the yard layout tomorrow, and to just try and absorb some more info. I could really use the sleeping in, but I think I have hit a stride at the 6am alarm. any-who, I better get some words with friends done, and try to get more of this log in Internet thing done. 

Hope alls well with where ever you are this Saturday evn.

-peas/love, 

A

chrispy

The camp was pretty quiet tonight. A game of cribbage and some Bon Iver, all that took place with any pomp tonight. Found my address ; Andrew Shay bear paw lodge 13589 57th. NW Williston ND 58801, so if someone wanted to send a mix of some Iver, id be down, ill send you a post card with FracFluid on it...   
      Lost my first "words with friends" game. Lost cribbage. Won at dinner; Today was steak night apparently at the camp. Huge like 16 oz steaks cooked to your request. pretty neat. Fish, mashed potatoes, steamed veggies, and a salad with some choco dipped straw berries... I dont know how the economy works, but yeah I'm happy all the people got dinner this figured out..

      

OSHA/1billion

I choose; you bottem left, with the cherries, the apple
looks all sad and alone; I think Dick Cheney shot it.

OHSA training is done. The Doughnuts were steller per the ussghh; I can know approach a helicopter from the correct sides, Know how to read HazMat signs, get the eff outa the way of moving cranes, and how to swing by swing rope from a ship to an Oil rig, but only when I'm ready, and when the waves are at their crest. Also there are 6 different lvls of explosives, and 3 lvls of flammable Hazmats... We also got to look up chemicals which if spilled have different evac/safe zones... and the guy asks who has a chem degree, Well I sorta kinda raised my hand... well a minor degree...

yeah ferballs, and funny we're the norm during
 haz chem awarness...or just the class breaks.

And now im listing to Adele,Someone like you www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQl3WQQoQ0 The roomate is currently singing along; albeit poorly. So yeah, mancamps, adele, and Sewing kits ( backpack was kinda ripping at the zippy zipper). So the internet is slow, we have a mini fridge, and the kitchen cools all the food, and im meeting alot of new ppl. So its like a dorm/hotel... so in a hotel you never have your door propped open, but in a dorm ya do... so I just had it open for a while...but it seemed kinda weird. This kinda reminds me of freshmen year, with less girl-ies, and less pHDs, and alot more work in general getting done. The town itself is super busy, the dude said "just Halliburton puts 400,000 miles/week, and NPR said in 2010, 1,000,000,000 thats a billion with a B, miles more then 2003...Effing Crazy...  Saturn is only 940 million miles away. bizzarow...

     Williston ND is the town in which I reside currently. I am in a 600ish bed "man Camp"- which is strikingly like college, with less homework, more 30+ 40+ dudes. The food in wonderful, but I haven't got the courage up to take my Cellphone out and get a picture.. I mean there is alot of huge dudes with huge beards... You dont want to be that guy right? Anywho...Ill work backwards...tonight was steak tips, with egg noodles, pork chops, and rice pilaf with a side salad... super good food. like really, for men just needing like calories they seem to take some time and put some extra energy and make this mass produced food taste good good like. sometimes when you use a word twice it means double.

    So today in class we went over alot of OSHA stuff like don't use your drill in a pool, with a metal later.. and what not... learning all these guidelines, which keep one from getting killed. H2S is hydrogen sulfide and with concentrations +1000 ppm you can die ultra quick so to reduce death, and what not you wear a H2S monitor on your collar, and also they have these masks that every one got fitted for, I saw this sign as we all got tested and snapped a quick picture; pretty funny, me thinks;

Halliburton gas mas facial hair guidelines

     So after that we had a talk by the HR rep (female gal to like 32 guys/2 gals) about sexual harassment. So she gets into the talk about not making and noises, "hooting/cat noises/whistling ect." So then she starts talking about how you should not make unwanted passes at ppl like asking them to date and whatnot... she says "you can ask someone out on a date, but if they say no thanks, then drop it" immanently" then one dude ~45 years pipes up and says " well what if she plays hard to get?" and every one starts like looking back at the HR rep, and she kinda laughs then every one laughs... it was pretty funny. But kinda a rediculous thing to say at a meeting like that...  Anywho the rest of the stuff went smoothly.. and yeah. OHhhh so another funny time is when dude whos training all of us always, at the start of each period like plays funny falling down videos, or cats running, or what not plays this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnThfJU57sk which shows Dick Cheney killing an Easter Bunny. (D. C. former VP, and CEO of Halliburton..)

-sars for the long post.

-peas+love from ND

- Andrew Shay