Daily Archives: October 25, 2014
What Goes Around, Comes Around . . .
First off, Jan wants to thank everyone for their warm birthday wishes. She really appreciates it.
And Jamie, our Gate Guard Services supervisor, called a little before 9am this morning with a birthday present for Jan too. And it was just what she’s always wanted.
A New Gate.
But it ‘s kind of an old gate. Or at least close by. So, by 9:45 we were on our way down to the Cavender’s in Huntsville, TX, about 65 miles south, to pick up F.R.C. shirts and pants.
So why were we buying F.R.C.’s to wear when we just left a gate because we didn’t want to wear F.R.C’s? Well, the F.R.C’s we didn’t want to wear were the heavy coverall jumpsuit things, and as it turned out, there was a miscommunication somewhere along the line between the oil company and GGS, and we didn’t have to wear the coveralls, just F.R.C. shirts and pants. Which makes a lot more sense since we would have been the only people wearing the coveralls other than the guys who actually work on the rig.
And even better, GGS is reimbursing us for them.
And in another strange turn of events, we’re almost back at our old gate.
Our road has always had two gate guards. The first gate covered the first two pads and then all of our traffic too. Then we handled our part of the traffic again. It never made sense since we all worked for the same oil company.
The guards at the first gate left on Wednesday, the day after we did, since they didn’t want to wear the coveralls either. But as it turned out, the couple who replaced them didn’t work out, So here we are, a little over half a mile from where we started back at the beginning of September.
The real downside to all this was that Jan missed out on her birthday day over in Bryan/College Station today and dinner at Outback. But we tried to make up for it by having lunch at one of her other favorite places, Chili’s in Huntsville, while we were there.
We’re also trying to set a relief guard for Wednesday or Thursday of next week for a make-up day for Jan’s,
Coming back up to Buffalo, we stopped off at the Buc-ee’s in Madisonville to get some coffees and to stock up on Cranberry Nut muffins.
We pulled out of the Buffalo GGS yard about 3pm and were at our new gate by 4:15. Scotty, our GGS support tech, showed up about 30 minutes later to move the trailers around to better fit our rig.
Now we just have to get everything set back up. But at least the view is better here.
Brandi sent over Landon’s T-Ball Team photo.
Note he’s the cool one in the shades.
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Thought for the Day:
Freedom isn’t free. It has a very high cost.
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