Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Worn.

Right now, I can officially say that I am worn to the Fucking bone. I am also cold to the Fucking bone. And I still have two days of work left.

The weather has been really fucking cold, yesterday me and my crew chief were the only two to go out and do work because of the weather and today was only worse...but everyone went out. Ya, doesn't make sense to me either. For the past three days we have been marking the corners of some new acreages right beside North Weyburn. Now, for those of you who don't know, to mark a corner isn't to complicated, well except for the calculations, which I don't do. I'll explain the steps to you:

1. Set up the GPS.
2. Navigate to the coordinates that the crew chief gives you.
3. Dig a hole.
4. FInd the exact posistion that the pin should be in anjd hammer a two foot pin in there.
5. Check to make sure it's right and take a shot of it(saves the coordinates so that it can be drawn on AutoCad)
6. Put a peice of lathe(a stick with paint on the end) up so that you know where it is.
7. Repeat steps 2-7.

Now, this isn't too bad in the summer, but in the WInter the ground is frozen and there is a layer of snow to get through before you even get to the ground. SO after shovelling off the snow you have two choices. A shovel will not get through the ground so you have to either a) use a crowbar or b) use a jackhammer.

THe first day Miles(My crewchief) and I couldn't get the Jackhammer to start so it was crowbars. Luckily we weren't out for very long seeing as he had a meeting in Regina. Yesterday we took out the other Jackhammer and sent the generator for the other one to Fisk. The JAckhammer we used yesterday was massive. A full sized gas jackhammer. When you hit the throttle it tears a hole in the ground good. But it doesn't like to start or stay started very well. So after fucking around with it all day and killing our backs using it, we headed back in. We went back today, with the generator for the electric jackhammer fixed and went at 'er again. The electric one is smaller and doesn't have the punch as the other one but it runs better and is easier to control. Wither way it still kills your body to use it.

Anywho, after digging the holes with the JAckhammer you get to pund the stake in, which is no easy feat even with a sledghammer in the frozen ground but we managed it. Well Miles managed it because I had the GPS telling him where to put it.

Plus yesterday I found out that Jeremy and I now have a key for our new place. So between freezing my as off and killing my back and wrist, waking up early in the morning to head off to Manor and all that good shit, I have to move my shit. And I think Jeremy is in about the same boat as I am. I just could of used the moving thing on a weekend.

But that's enough complaining from me. ok, it's not.

I spilled gas all over my gloves today when we were trying to get the snowmobiles to work because one of them was leaking really really badly and now my gloves smell.

Now THAT's enough. Chow.

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Jcl.

Man it's cold outside. I am not looking forward to going to work tommorrow. Although there are supposed to be some warmer days next week, mingled in with minus 25 weather.

Went and saw Old Skool perform at the Royal last night. I think someone put something in the drinks. I woke up with a headache and I was really thirsty...hmm, probably just my imagination. Although my sister is the bartender I was getting the drinks from so I wouldn't be suprised if she did do something..like put Alcohol in them..tsk tsk.

And now for a few movie reviews.

Accepted - A young graduate is tired of being rejected from colleges so to make his parents proud he makes his own fake college and is supried when thousands of students show up to it and he has to figure out a way to give them the education they deserve. Fuck this movie was hilarious. You knew what was going to happen throughout the entire movie and some of the actors kinda sucked but it wa funny as hell. I give 'er 8.5 mind explosives out of 10.

Cars - Owen Wilson is the voice of a champion rookie race car is off to try and win the piston cup when he is unexpectedly arrested in a small town and forced to repair a road before he is allowed to leave. Through it all he slowly becomes to like it there and makes friends with the residents. Pixar pulled out another one. Kudos to them. Although not as funny as Monsters Inc. it's still a great movie. I give it 9 Ratzenburgers out of 10.

Underworld: Evolution - Kate Beckinsale returns in this sequel about a vampire and a Vampire/Werewolf cross trying to prevent the release of the orginal Werewolf. It's not as good as the first one. I just got bored of it. I give it 6.5 vampires out of 10.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Pilot's Meme

I guess it's my turn now.

Anna Kournikova
Denise Richards
Kate Beckinsale
Keira Knightley
Shakira
Elisha Cuthbert
Angelina Jolie
Naomi Watts
Jessica Alba
Jennifer Garner

Yup, I think that'll have to do.

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Ska-doo-pa-doop.

Well, Just finished watching Naco Libre, which I will have a review of later, after getting home from helping move a guy. One of the Lions club members had a house fire. He had just moved from Manitoba and hadn't even really started unpacking his stuff. Luckily our fine fire department was able to save most of his possesions, especially the valuable ones but his trailer house is toast(no pun intended). A few of us went over and helped him move his stuff to a storage unit. Meanwhile we noticed a spot were the fire was starting to smolder again so the fire trucks had to be called in again.

Didn't manage to get a meeting with the new landlady to sign a lease because she was busy but she wants to do it Monday. so hopefully we should know more then.

Nacho Libre - Jack Black stars as a cook at a monastary for orphans who dreams of becoming a wrestler to help the children with thier money problems. Michelle told me not to watch it because her and Andres didn't like it but I couldn't stop laughing through the entire movie. It was hilarious. And it wasn't like there were many jokes, it was more the looks on peoples faces and just stupid humor. Over acting and completely inaccurate settings just added to it all. They are set back many years but use slang from our days. I don't know, some will like it, some won't. I give er 8 high fives out of 10.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Constant Over-Stimulation Numbs Me.

Ok, It doesn't really, but it's a good song anyway. The person who can name that song will get absolutely nothing seeing as I know the only person who reads my blog regularly and knows the answer is Jeremy. Congrats. In fact, I bet he could tell me where it was on the playlist at their show.

Got off work early today cause we were at Defensive Driving in Halbrite. There were no tests or anything, no questions, nothing. One guy failed. He insulted the instructor so he shot it back at him and the guy walked out. Pretty awesome.

Been freezing my but off going outside lately, then dressing up warmer and finding it only to be a nice day the next day and having my ass melt off. I wish Sask would make up it's mind temperature wise.

I was told that I'm picking up the GPS very quickly at work. I could run it effieciently within two weeks where I guess it takes most guys 2-3 months. It really isn't that harde though, everything is pretty clearly labelled. Makes you feel good when people are telling you that you're doing good. i thought I wasn't doing very good but I guess it's the complete opposite. I rule.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Worn out.

THis whole surveying thing is harder than I thought it would be, not to mention that I have to help haul around fridges and washers and dryers for my sister. Most of the work I do is using the GPS(which can be a lot of walking, many kilometers in a day with steel-toes boots, uneven ground and nary a jack to trade) to wither find already known points or to mark where stuff is on the computers. however we also have to use the instruments somtimes(they are the old fashioned ones, the laser and prisms reflecting back and forth) which is fun. Not as much walking, we only use them in towns over a smaller area where accuracy is more vital, and the buildings get in the way of the GPS seeing the sattelites. We also do some locating. Basically this box sends a signal into the ground and we walk along with this wand and it tells us where the pipe or line is. We then pop a stake there and maybe even mark it with the GPS. This can be very hard when you are on packed ground, like a roadway. I could barely hold onto the hammer on Friday after doing that. Today we walked a lot and did a shit load of locating. We had to plan the Right-away for a Flowline(A pipe that transports oil from one well to a hub of some sort.) and it turned out to be a lot trickier than we originally thought. I'm not sure why the gas line had to circle the farm one before going into it. Some people are just retarded. But, it's a challenge sometimes and I think after I get more used to the walking I'll be a lot better.

Got to thinking about the last year of my life on the way home from marking that Flow-line in Lapman. It's been a big year. It's been just over a year since my Grandpa had his heart-attack and we moved to this new house. I've been through a couple jobs and even went and lived in Vancouver for awhile, although it was more of a vacation. But even after everything has been going back and forth, things are going pretty good. Grandpa's doing good, This house is getting better and better(with the painting and all and us having a garage now). Plus I have a good, stable 8-5 job with plenty of overtime and will soon be living in a house with my bro. Jeremy made a comment when we got the house(and some unexpected money came his way(twice)) that things were finally starting to go his way. I can't help thinking the same for myself but I'm not going full out until I'm making more than 10 bucks an hour. I would like to have stayed in Audio Engineering but a textbook I got from it that I am reading is just further convincing me that I made the right choice. Most of the stuff in the Book I already know but I just didn't think it was nearly that bad. Did you know that the Backstreet boys are still in debt to thier recording company. It's a very touchy industry and you have to play it just right or else you get screwed over royally.

Anyway, I've taken up enough of your precious time. Chow.

Saturday, November 04, 2006

First Aid/CPR

Not doing to much this weekend since I have to take my CPR/First Aid course this weekend. Luckily I get paid to go to it. After I complete it I will be able to go onto the encana oil field and Survey shit. Speaking of surveying shit, I actually surveyed some shit the other day. WE had to survey Fast Gas ause they are planning on a complete tear down and rebuild and one of the things was measuring the depth in which the sewer pipes came out in the sewers. Luckily we didn't actually have to crawl down there cause it stank.

Got my first "paycheck" yesterday. It's actually only sustinance pay so it was only 64 bucks. We get paid a full paycheck once a month and sustenance pay in the middle of that. Nothing wrong with that, I'll just have to make sure I budget my money wisely.

WEll, not much else to say. I'm just sitting here listening to some old school Opeth and playing various video games.