I get to go home from the 20th until the 2nd, and spend Thanksgiving weekend at Dad's. Life's pretty good. I'm getting better with the machines, even though it makes my muscles ache and I sometimes think wistfully about napalm, and I'm pretty sure I'm contributing to the global helium so-called 'shortage' (been trying to track down a leak in the ( Read more... )

A foot of snow overnight is a good reminder of how much I hate snow and cold. The job's still fun. Spent the weekend up at Dad's, hung out with Chris, awesome stuff. Got my dog fix multiple ways. This weekend, will be going up and hanging with Grammy ( Read more... )

Been rebuilding a trashed CHNS analyzer. As in, tearing EVERYTHING out, scrubbing the chassis, starting from scratch. It's fun. I can't believe LECO's paying me to do this, it's legitimately entertaining enough that I could see doing it as a hobby. I'm impressing people with my skillz and work ethic and results, getting along famously, learning an ( Read more... )

I'm here in St. Joseph as of yesterday. As always my sleep loss before important events is legendary. Saturday night was a RHPS live show and dinner thing, that went from 4 PM to about 4 AM. I slept until 10, spent half the day packing and squawking, crashed at 8ish which was already past time....then woke up at 11 PM utterly unable to sleep. Left ( Read more... )

Luggage weighs in at 10 pounds. Luggage with computer weighs in at 42 pounds. I'll pull the drive cage and throw some socks and pants and such underneath and around, but I think I can get away with taking my computer to St. Joseph ( Read more... )

Physical / screen confirmed, job get confirmed. I'm going to be flying from Houston to South Bend, Indiana on Monday at eyebleed in the morning and a driver will be there to take me to St. Joseph (~hour away). Will be staying at the Candlewood Suites, which means really nice chair, adequate desk, good TV, kitchenette, wired Internet, 5 miles from ( Read more... )

Drug / booze screen, hearing test, vision test, height/weight/blood pressure, general health exam, all passed. No word back on the X-rays yet but the doc said I was healthy and that the X-rays are mostly to check for previous surgeries. So I'm good. Should be sent in by this Wednesday and I can get going with the next steps to spend the next year ( Read more... )

Things I have done today ( Read more... )

Offer letter GET (yes, salaried), offer letter signed and returned along with all the credit / background investigation. I figure...if I could be cleared by a company to go out and take multi-millions worth of equipment and tooling to don't-even-wanna-think-about-it oil and gas wells, and to incidentally be trusted to handle explosives and ( Read more... )

Got the call a few minutes ago; an offer letter will be forthcoming ( Read more... )