I have no idea when I last updated but I have been working in Ireland since the end of the summer. When asked about what I think of Ireland my two comments are usually "expensive" and "the road system and drivers are horrific". I work 43km from my hotel and I spend nearly 30km driving on the main road from the west coast to Dublin. Here are a few ( Read more... )

I have not been updating anywhere near as often as I would like. As I think I have mentioned I am currently working in Co. Galway, Ireland. This summer I met an English girl in Italy and we hit it off well. This year C is living and working outside of Seville, Spain. I've gone to see her on two different weekends, last weekend being the most recent ( Read more... )

On Monday at 15h30 I get a call from my boss. I'm on site in Ireland. I'm told to get to a site in Kent, England ASAP. I make travel arrangements and I get a flight out of Shannon at to Gatwick that about 5 hours later. I get to site early this morning to find out that the problem had be solved over the phone late last night, either while I was in ( Read more... )

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I've been absent for a while. I had two weeks of fun that took me to Edinburgh, Prague, Berlin and Brussels. Here are a couple pictures to pay close attention to these from Berlin.


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My last update I said that I was headed on short notice to Northern Ireland. I managed to find an Alitalia flight from Milano to Heathrow. This was actually a real challenge as last weekend was a holiday long weekend in Italy. I think the Thursday was officially a day off so everyone took Friday too. This made for really full flights to the UK, I ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got an email from Rob, the boss in Italy asking if I had any advice or could offer a solution for something that blew up at a site in Ireland. I helped out as best I could. It seems my solution is a winner. This morning Rob pings me on IM and says that they need someone on that site ASAP, how busy am I? I told him that I could be on a ( Read more... )

Today I received a picture of the plant from the customer. The older part of the plant has two large concrete smokestacks that are around 225m tall. This photo was taken from one of the smokestacks looking down on the new gas turbines that we installed over the last year. The new triple smokestack is over 100m tall. The picture was taken just a few ( Read more... )

First off, buzzedangel where are you? This post is dedicated to you ( Read more... )

It has been a little while since I have given anything resembling a quality update to this journal. I have been exceptionally busy with work and have hardly had a chance to breathe. I think I have been averaging 70 to 80 hours per week since January. In my last decent post I wrote that I was going to London for 48 hours. That was a great trip and I ( Read more... )