Monthly Archives: January 2017
Sheer Perfection!
Today was grocery shopping day, and our first chance to check out what turned out to be a very nice HEB.
But our first stop was Whataburger of course, for lunch.
Sheer Perfection!
A #6 Double Meat Whataburger Jr. with cheese, bacon, tomato, mayo, mustard, pickles, and onions.
Jan’s #6 is a little different, with cheese, tomato, ketchup, mustard, and grilled onions.
Note: No ketchup on mine. I’m a purist. Ketchup belongs on French Fries, not on hamburgers or hotdogs.
After leaving Whataburger our next stop was the Donut Palace for a couple of their Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Croissants. These make a perfect meal for dinner on the gate.
And their Twists and other donuts are delicious too.
I got to the gate about 5:15 expecting to find it very busy, but found that it had been pretty dead all day. Apparently they broke the frack.
Or at least they broke something on the frack. We seen it take hours or sometimes even days to get running again so we’ll see how it goes.
Yesterday we had ask a company man to bring us a light tower down here to this gate. The actual gate entrance isn’t real wide and a lot of the big trucks were worried about coming through at night since it was so dark in that area.
But the lights really brighten up the gate entrance now.
I’m still having weird problems with the phone service here. It varies all over the place, but no matter what I still can’t make or receive phone calls. However I can get the Voice Mail for a call I never received.
Plus I can usually send email and text, but not always. Sometimes I have absolutely no service whatsoever, sometimes I have 1x, sometimes 3G, and sometimes 4G.
And sometimes it says “Emergency Calls Only”. So who knows.
Thought for the Day:
”Friendstalker” was one of the early names considered for Twitter. I think they made the right choice.
Just like one of the early names considered for Starbuck’s was Pequod’s.
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Like A Wal-Mart Greeter . . .
That’s pretty much what the job is at this gate.
We stop each vehicle as it comes in, determine that they’re at the right place, and then ask if they’ve been into this pad before. If they have, we warn them to drive slow because of the cows, deer, elk, antelope, and zebras, wish them a nice day, and send them on their way.
If they haven’t been in before, we give them directions, and then warn them to drive slow because of the cows, deer, elk, antelope, and zebras, wish then a nice day, and send them on their way. When they come back out, we wish them a nice day and then wave them through.
And then once I start recognizing tag numbers in a few days, I’ll just wave them on it without stopping them.
And that’s pretty much it for this gate. The vehicles and the drivers are actually logged in at the gate on the pad, where I was working last week.
What’s funny though is that Marathon designates the gate names just the opposite. They call the gate at the pad the Greeter and they call my gate the Gate Guard position. But it ‘s my gate that does all the ‘Greeting’.
One thing I got done today was to set up my Mighty Mule Driveway Alarms on both entrance and exits to this gate.
The ones SiteWatch uses either don’t work, or false alarm so much they’re useless. But because the Mules work on a magnetic field they only sense a large mass of metal going by, and not a large mass of cow.
They sometimes take a little fiddling with to get the sensor placed right, but once you get them set up correctly, they just work.
Tomorrow after I get up Jan and I are going to do an HEB run for some groceries and then grab lunch somewhere, probably Whataburger. The Wal-Mart here is one of the old ones with just a small grocery section in the middle of the store, but they do have a nice big HEB here in Cuero so that works for us.
Since Jan’s going to be working this gate Tuesday and Wednesday days, she’ll have to bring me to work Monday night and then go back to the rig, then come back at 5:30am Tuesday morning for her shift. I’ll then go home and come back Tuesday night, and then we’ll repeat on Wednesday.
Thought for the Day:
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