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Archive for December, 2007

Stress over work, while working..

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Today I get a call from the guy that has me working here.. After chatting for a good half hour it seems that he can’t get anyone right away and asks me to stay on a couple more days, with a thinly veiled threat that someone else could be cheaper than me. He also mentions [...]

Heading out again…

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

So we are heading out again after last night we started moving at about 4am and reached the field around 7pm.. I managed to grab some sleep by declaring in a loud voice I’m going to get some sleep as I need to work nights from later.. He finally got the message after he finished [...]

PCworld and Sales.. What sales?

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

So this morning got up early and managed to sneak off without the other guy who was all for hanging on and following me around like a little puppy.. Then we popped into PC World for the famous all over the TV sale.. …which turn out to be err about 2 items and lots of [...]

Going out.. maybe..

Friday, December 28th, 2007

In Hull so thought might go out for a beer… In the end waited until about 9.30pm then took a wander down the road to the local pub and only found to guys form the Barge in there (result) so meant could have a chat and just a couple of pints before heading back.. Nothing [...]

Hull is not just for Christmas

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

So back here again, hey I should get a voting card soon at this rate. Finally arrived about 8am and although I thought we would be going out it didn’t happen and I found myself sitting around getting pretty bored and wondering why I bother. Missing the hounds and Angel a lot now and as [...]

Boxed in.

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

So today we started heading back in to Hull after the other guy here jumped ship we found ourselves moving out of the field.. Again I couldn’t sleep so I ended up wandering around and playing about with the Xbox I brought onboard. All in all a pretty crappy day.. Weather looks bad until Monday [...]

Festive food…

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

Yes well glad I stayed up and got some sleep during the day today as sure enough we started laying a cable this morning.. I helped out at the start then went for a lay down and some much needed sleep, seems once this cable is in the other guy with me here is off [...]

Stand by for action..

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Tonight everything was put on hold due to bad weather some talk was banded about with the intent of going back into dock for a couple of days but seems that the weather is good enough tomorrow to get a cable in so the plan is now to sit here tonight and go for another [...]

Doing bugger all..

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Ok so last night I left the cable still not finished off and I arrive tonight to find it has ONLY just been done.. So I have to rush around fusing on cables and such like getting ready for the next one.. Only it never happens and I end up getting bored and reading a [...]

Do dar whatsits

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

We are still laying cables and this one was not set up either which sucked bigtime so I had to play around getting bits and bobs ready.. They finally go the other one finished during the day but didn’t change over to the new cable so I end up doing it again.. Then sit around [...]