Adrenalin Rush or What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi honeys I'm home.

I've been to Barrow Island to rig up a unit. Went via Perth, after five days on the island I went back to Perth to do my HUET (helicopter underwater escape training).

I have escaped from a helicopter that was turned upsidedown and submerged under 2 meters of water with me strapped in the seat and fully clothed seven times. The last time with my lifejacket and all the gear on. I would have drowned in real life on my 6th attempt, cos I fucked up and panicked. But I learnt from it, so the final attempt went flawlessly.

I cannot put the experience into words. I am still very traumatised by the entire thing. When I calm down about it I will go into some detail if you are interested in hearing about it.

What else have I done, every thing else kinda pales in comparison to that.

I've put out three different sorts of fires, escaped from a smoke filled double story house with no light and only got out by my sense of touch.

I've jumped into water from 20 meters up.
Twice!

Deployed a life raft (and gotten into it - that was the hard part - damn breasts and lifejacket got in the way).

I've been winched out of the water by a helicopter, the rescuers were really sexy. I can finally say I've been rescued by a big strong man. I enjoyed every minute of it.

Last but not least I've escaped a burning oil rig by getting into a fully enclosed life boat that drops about 30 meters into the ocean.

I've aged about 10 years.

I've also seen about 8 films of crashing helicopters, burning oil rigs, people on fire in real life, and pretty much watching people drown. That was just before strapping myself into a chopper that was about to turn upsidedown underwater.

So, what have you done this week?

In Perth with my brother......

 

Barrow Island.....The Unit

 

Barrow Island.....Accomodation

 

Barrow Island.....view from my bedroom

 

Happy day.....

Happy Valentines Day all my luscious sexy readers.

I'll be home for dinner!!!!

(No candel lit supper for me tho - but I might ask the cabbie to pull into Hungry Jacks drive thru on the way home.)

More good things.......

.......I found my nail file. Yay!

No, totally serious folks, it is really the small things in life that make the difference. Like not going home with shredded fingernails. It's a bit too late for me, but at least I found it on my last day here in the Plains of Despair.

That's right folks, my last day, or so they say.

BURN THOSE BRIDGES, BURN THEM ALL TO HELL!!!!

Just kidding, tho it is my last day here for a while hopefully, I'm going to work on Barrow Island next hitch.

And the news just keeps on getting better......I don't have to rig up the unit. This next job is going to have a 6 man crew, which means I get to be a basic mudlogger, and there will be a more senior guy on my shift, so I don't have to deal with all the political bull shit and keep the unit running all on my own, and the senior guys have to rig up, then I get to breeze in later when all the hard work is done.

And better still, I get to go swimming and snorkeling and surfing and building sandcastles, and even better still, I get to have all the frequent flyer points by flying in and out of Perth every couple of weeks. Yehar!!!

Good things are happening....

I'm coming home. Yehar!

I found my old hard hat. I thought someone had stolen it, but then ...., it's bright orange with "Cats Hat" written across the top of it. Then I thought I'd taken it home with me cos I was going to change rigs at some stage. At the end of the day it was just a damn inconvenient mystery. I had to borrow an old one, that didn't fit quite right, and everytime I looked down or a stiff breeze blew up, it fell off. Not to mention that my sun brim didn't quite fit on it.

So I bought a new hard hat. Big, white cumbersome thing. I even bought a new sun brim. But the fuckers who designed this shit, didnt test it out on their own stuff. Of course the new sun brim didn't fit on the new hard hat. Stiff breeze blew up and there was a new type of bright orange frizzbe flying across the lease. My fucking brand new sun brim. Grrrrrr......

Me a fortnight ago.....

 

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Shafted......

.....yet again!

Just found out that I won't be going home on valentines day. I have to stay another week. Or so........
Happy valentines day to me.
I'm very disappointed.
Sob.

My pants wont make the extra week.
I've been sewing the holes in my work pants up for a couple of days now.
It's just getting to the point where it is indecent. And the fabric is so worn, that no matter what you do, it just falls apart.
Just be glad I didn't bring my camera out this hitch.....although, I did see about 15-20 wild camels on the side of the road, during my 5 hour drive out to the rig. Also saw a few dingoes and some really nice types of brightly coloured parrot.
I've never seen so many camels before. They were so close you could reach out and touch them.
It's just one of those things that you see when you don't have a camera on you. Dammn it!

Embarrasing things...

.....I've done in the last two days.

I got the sparky to come to my unit after hours. I didn't have any power from any of my power plugs and I panicked. I said I had checked my breakers, and they were all in the upright position. He comes over and flicks up the main breaker, low and behold, everything fires up.
I was mortified!

You see, the main breaker is teeny tiny, and it is black, in a black casing, and it all just kind of blended in. I had done a massive day, and a rig up, and 5 hours of driving, and I was friggin exhausted.

Well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.

The second thing I did was get told off by the campy......for putting my washing in the laundry and not telling him about it.....Huh?
Well, I had been away from the rig for about 5 days, and there was rather a large load.......
Hmmnnn........

Hi honey I'm back....

.....still kicking around moomba on a rig move. This is how my day generally goes....
Wake up
breakfast
shower
coffee
cross stitch in front of tv
lunch
cross stitch in front of tv
dinner
read book
watch movie
bed
sleep
wakeup
breakfast
etc.....

Occasionally I will mix it up with a bit of internet, newspaper and magazine here and there.
Last night I ran into a couple of other mudloggers on a rig move so we had a bit of a beer session after dinner. I stayed on the coke tho, I'm not ready to face alcohol yet.

Ok, so now I'm up to "cross stitch in front of the tv".

Damn..... what a life!

I'm rigging down....

....and it's going to be a long rigmove, so I won't be able to blog for a while.

Something really nice happened yesterday, a new lease hand brought me some 3am smoko. He thought I'd be hungry. How sweet.

First time in 5 years that's ever happened.

I must learn that lease hands name!

Why?

The day I arrived on site, I rushed to the mudlogging unit in a mad panic. I was 7 hours late to the rig, due to the bag cafuffel.

In the unit was what I thought was my offsider. Happily with his feet up on the desk, chatting on the phone.

Here I was thinking that he looks remarkably good for having done a 19 hour day.

The drill bit had just been changed, so they were in the process of running in drill pipe. There were about 15 stands left to run in before they drilled ahead (about half an hour before I had to hit action stations).

Well, I drag all my gear into the unit. I was wearing my travelling clothes still, and had planned to relieve my offsider asap, therefore I was going to change into my rig gear in the unit (when I was alone of course).

I didn't even stop for dinner. I thought, my poor old offsider probably is half dead and cant wait to leave the rig to have a shower and a sleep.

Well, this guy is chatting and chatting and chatting..........and chatting on the phone.

I reckon he was chatting for about 20 minutes.

He finally gets off the phone and I ask him what's going on. He dribbles on a bit before telling me that he is NOT THE FRIGGIN MUDLOGGER.

Faaarrrrkkkkk!!!!@!!!!!!

I could have had dinner, maybe a quick wash and a smoke and a real quick relax before action stations. Dammnnit. Fucking Arsehole.

I literally told him "if you're not the friggin mudlogger, what am I wasting time here with you for. I got shit to do". And then I literally stormed out of the unit.

So he chewed up my free half an hour before my running around time.

Fucking timewaster.

I ended up having two minutes to get my dinner and get everything ready for drilling again.

Cos I thought he was my offsider (I'd never met my new offsider before ) I'd assumed things were all ready for drilling again. Big damn mistake!

Anyway, he must have come in yesterday to give my real offsider a present for the unit.

"Talking Boony"

http://www.cricket.com.au/?s=talkingboony2

All I can say is........"Get Fucked!"