Monthly Archives: December 2016
Cookkkiieeess . . .
said like Cookie Monster
Jan has hosed out the hollow tree, yelled at the drunken elves, and started turning out Christmas cookies. She does candy cane cookies, rum balls, wedding cookies, and Rolo-Pretzel treats, all of them delicious. Then she bundles them up on decorative plates, and then we pass them out to friends and family. But this year it will be all friends and coworkers. They’re in for a treat.
I’m not sure what happened since I was at this gate a couple of weeks ago, but both 3G and 4G speeds have dropped off drastically. It took almost 15 minutes to upload the blog last night, but at least it’s just slow, and not dropping out all the time.
I mentioned last night about the new flare stack here at this site since I last worked here. Well, about 3am I noticed that the landscape out my front window toward the highway was tinted red. Turning around, I saw that our stack here had started up in high gear, not flaming oil high, but high enough,
In fact at times the flare was higher than the top of the crane. But the fog made it hard to get a good focus on a shot. But as before I could feel the heat.
So far tonight it’s staying pretty normal, but we’ll see as the night progresses.
A week or so ago I mentioned that I was going to do an article on what’s really going on with the whole North Dakota Access Pipeline kerfuffle. But the research is taking a little longer than I had thought because there are so many different sides to it, more than just for or against.
I’ve read everything from the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, through the right-wing and left-wing conspiracy blogs, down to individual bloggers in the area, and on both sides on the controversy.
In fact, going from article to article, it’s sometimes hard to tell they’re all talking about the same thing. But hopefully I’ll be able to lay it all out for you so that it makes sense.
I hope.
Tomorrow is my last day here at this gate, at least for now, and although it will cut into my sleep a little, Jan and I are having Chicken & Dumplings and Hamburger Steak at Barth’s once again.
Thought for the Day:
Vermont, the only state that has never required a permit to either open carry or conceal carry a weapon, also has the lowest rate of violent crime in the U.S., with only 99 incidents per 100,000 population. Coincidence?
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Cloudy with Meatballs . . .
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The weather continues to be overcast, supposedly with rain on the way. Of course, just as I’m going back on a gate.
It was a short day for me. At least the ‘awake’ part. Trying to get myself oriented onto night shift, I didn’t go to bed until about 3:30am and then was back up at 11.
Jan had fixed up a delicious batch of her Crockpot Spaghetti and Meatballs for lunch, and this was possibly the best batch yet, probably due to the new meatballs we tried.
This time we used the Sam’s Choice Premium Angus Meatballs, and you could really taste the difference. At least you taste a lot more meat than breading, and the Romano cheese inside certainly didn’t hurt.
YUM!
And enough left for tomorrow.
And then after lunch I was back down for a nap until about 3:45. I need to leave for the gate by about 4:25 since it’s a 20 minute trip. I always like to get to the gate a little early the first day in case anything has changed since my last visit.
When I did arrive about 4:45 I found things had really built up since my last time here.
They’ve even got a flare stack going. At least it’s a pretty good piece away.
When we were down here in 2013 working a frack site near Whitsett, we had a big stack less than 100 yards from us. One afternoon oil got mixed in with the gas and the whole thing became a flaming oil volcano.
At first it started spurting the the flaming oil out, a couple of times even making a flaming ring, like a smoke ring. Then the flames just started rolling down the sides and out on the surrounding brush, setting it all on fire.
Alarms started going off all around and guys were rushing over to put the flames out. Even at that distance I could feel the heat. And luckily they go it out before it reached the storage tanks.
Thought for the Day:
In 1859 English settler Thomas Austin released 24 rabbits onto his property in Australia . By the 1920’s the population had increased to about 10 billion.
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