Lost in the Ozzy Desert

A picture of a girl on an oil rig in the Plains of Despair, and occasionally at home with her dog.

Monday, June 26, 2006

Mental Health=Good.....at the moment!

In exactly 11 hours and 45 minutes I will be on the plane home.

In exactly 9 hours I will finish my tour (shift - rigspeak like).

Then I would have finished the ultimate hitch from hell.



Overall, I think we came off pretty ok.


Only destroyed 3 degasser motors, 1 still good, no spares (not so good).

Managed to get some sleep this hitch, even if I did get woken up and called out pretty much every night of my hitch.

Last night was the most interesting. Got called out at 11 (5 hours after I knocked off) to fix a problem that didn't really exist. Naturally I came on, checked out the non existent problem, appeared to fix it, then took the credit for saving the Universe.

Then I crawled back into bed at midnight.

At 3am that same night, I got another wake up call. Seems that the Wellsite Geologist decided I needed to do a shortchange and pretty much get my arse out of bed and start work right away.

3 hours before my shift was due to start.

WTF?????????

Seems my new green crew member wasn't quite keeping up during the production zone.

The wellsite geo was "tired" (he'd been galavanting around the POD all afternoon - coming to the rescue of a rather gorgeous tall leggy blonde female WSG on another rig close by who was new and didn't know what was going on.

Hmmnnn...........

I'm glad that his good deeds meant I lost much needed sleep and screwed up our "normal shortchange" on the very tour before I go home.

Sigh...................



I'm going to my office on Tuesday.

Gonna have a chat with the boss.


It's not going to be very pretty.


But I'm sure gonna feel better afterwards.


Hell Yeah!

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sheesh, that doesn't sound too good.
I was in the office this morning, chatting to Amy(nice chick!),and she said you were home today.
OMG I hope things sort out for you Cat... *Big Hugs*
Enjoy your time home girly. =)

1:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

good to see that things never change in the oil industry,and that the shit still gets piled on the long suffering mudloggers.

i feel for you cat, stay sain

3:38 PM  
Blogger mogcat said...

Hey guys, Utegirl, I got your postcard. Totally cheered me up. Made my day!
Wishful, I miss you. Where are you?
Come back to me..........sigh.....
Guess I'd better let you go tho....
Keep in touch tho, let me know how you are doing every once in a while.
MWA
xxx

10:29 AM  

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