Daily Archives: December 25, 2016
Merry Boxing Day Eve . . .
Last night ended up being very quiet on the gate with just the two vehicles coming in that I mentioned in last night’s blog.
And tonight looks to be even quieter with probably no one coming in at all. I’m not sure when they plan to start back up tomorrow, so some people could start to wander in early tomorrow morning, but I’ll be gone at 5am so I may not see any of it. The rigs I know yhat did shut down, including the gate guards, don’t start back up until 3pm Monday afternoon. So I guess we’ll see.
My Christmas morning started off with coffee about 11 after I got up. Then around 12:30 Jan heated up and put out the Turkey & Dressing dinners we picked up from Barth’s on Friday. What we didn’t realize was that the portions were so large that we just split one dinner and had more than enough for the two of us. So we have the second dinner to split tomorrow. Nice!
And as usual it was all delicious, especially the green beans. They’ve never been on the buffet so this was our first time trying them.
Then we capped off the meal with Pumpkin Pie about 4pm right before I came into work.
Right now on my schedule I’m home and in bed by 6am and then up about 11. Then after coffee and lunch, I grab a couple more hours of sleep before I head back to work around 4:30. But if the new gate I start tomorrow night looks to be somewhat more long term, then I’ll just sleep until 1 or so, and get up and stay up. So we’ll see.
Unfortunately this new gate is a little farther away than any of our other gates, about 30 minutes rather than the 15 or 20 minutes for the others, so a little longer trip, but not bad.
Landon got to play in the snow this week. His church had a snow machine set up for the kids to play in.
Looks like he was having fun.
Don’t know if it bodes well for business in the Oil Patch, but gas prices jumped 11 cents a gallon a couple of days ago while diesel went from $2.14 to $2.27, a 13 cent jump.
Of course it may just be for Christmas travel so I guess we’ll see in a few days. But there is this article saying things are looking up in the Patch, so here’s hoping.
Thought for the Day:
Yesterday is history and tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That’s why they call it the present.
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