Sunday, August 30, 2009

Another fast 2 weeks

Well it was another quick days off. Ran back up to Wyoming again. Went to the cabin for a couple of days. Helped put of the new garage/shop. It turned out pretty good. I still can't believe how green it is for middle/end of Aug.
Then I came back down off the mountain to Mom and Dad's for Nik's reception. It was fun to have Amber and Josh home as well, but I was happy to leave. I did bring my girls back home with me.

Well work is work. I am glad just to have a job. They just announced that COPC will be dropping another 2 rigs, which is crazy... we will be 4 rigs compared to 12 last year. Well best get back to the grind.

BEN

Monday, August 3, 2009

New Rig

Well I'm not doing very good at keeping up. It has been pretty busy though. I ended up switching rigs in last month, and in the process had to bump by schedule around... ended up pulling a 30 out of 35 day hitch, which was pretty long. I was pretty shot by the end of it... To many late nights/all nighters. I'm on AWS 730 now, and am enjoying it. Right now we are drilling a dual lateral and I am learning lots.

I am up to like 11 nights I think now at my place, not bad for being there since May. Its a good thing Kate didn't get done and I had to stay around for a couple of days, or I'd be like at 8 or something. Went up to the cabin on last days off; meet Jeff, Josh, and Tanner up there (Dee as well) and we poured a cement pad for a little shop/garage. There wasn't much play time, but oh well. I left Durango (waiting around for Kate to be done) at about 6 tuesday night. Drove all night tuesday, pulled into Riverton about 3:30 and stopped and got donunts for mom and dad. Went home and laid on the couch from about 4:00 - 5:00, when I got up mom told me I needed to go back to bed and I hadn't slept long enough... I just smiled and told mom, this is what I do now, hell... I even got an hour nap in, that an hour more than a lot of nights.
Well got to get back to work.. Hope you all are doing well.