Mine Expo Week

Before I get into mine expo week, I found a source for marriage inspirations. She knows where all the good things are and I couldn’t feel more relieved and said she’d be more than happy to be the wedding enforcer that keeps everything organized and going. And to be honest, I think that’s one of S’s passions. She is constantly the head of some committee organizing something. Now all I need to do is feed this information back to Joe. And get pictures of a possible place and stuff.

So, this week was Mine Expo Week. I’m coming to the conclusion it should be renamed an Excuse to Drink a Lot Week. It felt like I was back in college. Our booth, as a gimmick that I don’t quite understand how we can, gave away margaritas. Not virgin margaritas, mind you. Add in that most of the employees were drinking too and then there’s a never ending stream. That was thursday for me.

I managed to get out of doing anything on Wednesday because I was so tired from the previous day. I actually came home after work and slept all the way to the next day. I did get invited to go to one of our contractor’s barbeques, but I was just too exhausted.

Friday, I ended up not going and helping out with the exhibit. Mostly because I felt sick all day from being out all night before. That and KL is off to Bolivia for about two months. Him and I were busy trying to pull all the loose ends together and figure out how we’re going to finish two reports that should have went out about a month ago. E-mail is a wonderful invention. To top that out, I’m going to be on the road for at least 2 weeks. That’s how long we’ve got the rig for and now they’re trying to pile on however many jobs they can before I’m off to my big job. Mostly because when I’m on that one, they’re not going to be able to pull me for the week long jobs anymore.

So that was mostly friday until the evening. I ended up getting dragged to Tri Con which is like a big end of expo week party bash. Free booze and food. I really can’t complain too much about that.

And now its saturday and I’m sitting with my hair wrapped in a towel and a robe in front of the computer. My last lazy weekend until I probably die from stress the rest of the summer. The project I’m suppose to be going on is to have an accelerated schedule. This probably means 7 days a week with a day off every 10 (mining policy). They’re also talking about running it both days and nights. My biggest question on that is how the hell are we going to staff it.

We’re stretched pretty thin right now.

I guess we’ll figure that out when we reach that road mark.