Daily Archives: November 3, 2014
Still No Frack Food . . .
The weather was really nice today, but we had a big bump up in traffic to make up for it, 250 vehicles, up from yesterday’s 190.
Not sure why the jump though. The frack is cranking along pretty steady with sand trucks coming in and sand trucks going out. And then there’s the crew changeout at around 5am and 5pm.
There was one thing new on the gate when I came out at 1pm to relieve Jan.
Speed bumps. Lots and lots of speed bumps.
Or maybe more like an E-Ticket ride at Disney World.
Apparently one of the landowners got ticked about speeding trucks and someone tearing down one of his fences, so he got one of the contractor’s front loader guys to put these in.
Well, that lasted until the big sand trucks started getting hung up, and cars started bottoming out, including a lot of the other resident’s cars. At that point the front loader guy took them all out. Then after some more yelling and cussing, they put back in 4 humps here and then two more singles every 50 yards or so.
It is kind of fun to watch some of these guys who don’t know the bumps are there encounter them for the first time.
Since the time change this past Sunday, the sun’s coming up before Jan relieves me at 7am so now I get to see the sunrise every morning, and this one was pretty good.
Brandi sent over this photo of Landon getting his T-Ball trophy.
Kind of looks like he was surprised with a mouthful of something.
We’re supposed to get rain tomorrow and Wednesday, the first we’ve had at this new gate, so I’m not exactly sure which way it’s going to run off. The pad is fairly level right here, but then looks to drop off slightly toward the roadway. Doesn’t look like it should puddle here, and there’s no pond behind us to overflow underneath the rig like the other gate, so we should be fine.
OK, it’s two days now with no Frack Food.
What up with this?
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Thought for the Day:
“My guess is that there aren’t a hundred top-flight professional comedians, male and female, in the whole world. They are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world. But because we are laughed at, I don’t think people really understand how essential we are to their sanity.” – Groucho Marx
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