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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
I'm not a nice person
Ok, I promise this one will be much shorter. O and thanks for all the responses to the last post…… did anyone read it?
Anyway…..Hiking in Scotland is awesome, but will it last? Mel is leaving in 2 weeks and I am working for the next 2 weeks so will I get another trip in before winter? Is it winter already? These are the questions that only time will answer. I did have a great time I have to thank Andrew and Ali for the book that got it all started. P.S. When Lonely Planet say difficult, you will be in pain the next day!!!
Part 2. Ok, don't read this if you are easily offended, but I think this need sto be shared. I recently found out about this thing called Craig’s list. It is the most hilarious thing I have ever read. First off, the posts about looking for someone to come screw them are amazing. Like http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/w4m/424082728.html I mean seriously if your not going to sell us with your picture at least sell us with the writing. Or is this good enough??? Or what about this one http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/w4m/422431285.html a car, job, and a country song are all you need to have a chance, damn, that’s like half the country. http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/w4m/420230839.html would be pure confusion. How do I know is the shoe will even fit? The whole cindreli thing online doesen’t really work.
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/w4m/424681611.html This one did make me feel a little better because I had come to the conclusion that a girl could pull anytime she went out no matter what. But this makes me think maybe they can’t!
Only nice men welcome http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/w4m/424156819.html well of course. Dressed like that and carrying your luggage you wouldn’t want to move in with a mean guy!
Ok, enough being mean. Do I think maybe I could find a girl on craigslist that I would like to go out with? Sure http://calgary.craigslist.org/w4m/390254652.html there’s one. But I know nothing about you. What do you like? What do you hate? What if you hate, great looking, smart intelligent guys, who are great natural athletes and amazing people in general that save babies on there days off. If you hate guys like that I should just save both of us the time.
I’, thinking of putting an ad up, maybe in a few different cities and seeing what comes back my way for the pure comedy aspect of course. Anyway, hope that didn’t offend anyone, not like anyone reads this but yea, just thought that was something that needed to be shared.
Anyway…..Hiking in Scotland is awesome, but will it last? Mel is leaving in 2 weeks and I am working for the next 2 weeks so will I get another trip in before winter? Is it winter already? These are the questions that only time will answer. I did have a great time I have to thank Andrew and Ali for the book that got it all started. P.S. When Lonely Planet say difficult, you will be in pain the next day!!!
Part 2. Ok, don't read this if you are easily offended, but I think this need sto be shared. I recently found out about this thing called Craig’s list. It is the most hilarious thing I have ever read. First off, the posts about looking for someone to come screw them are amazing. Like http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/w4m/424082728.html I mean seriously if your not going to sell us with your picture at least sell us with the writing. Or is this good enough??? Or what about this one http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/w4m/422431285.html a car, job, and a country song are all you need to have a chance, damn, that’s like half the country. http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/w4m/420230839.html would be pure confusion. How do I know is the shoe will even fit? The whole cindreli thing online doesen’t really work.
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/w4m/424681611.html This one did make me feel a little better because I had come to the conclusion that a girl could pull anytime she went out no matter what. But this makes me think maybe they can’t!
Only nice men welcome http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/w4m/424156819.html well of course. Dressed like that and carrying your luggage you wouldn’t want to move in with a mean guy!
Ok, enough being mean. Do I think maybe I could find a girl on craigslist that I would like to go out with? Sure http://calgary.craigslist.org/w4m/390254652.html there’s one. But I know nothing about you. What do you like? What do you hate? What if you hate, great looking, smart intelligent guys, who are great natural athletes and amazing people in general that save babies on there days off. If you hate guys like that I should just save both of us the time.
I’, thinking of putting an ad up, maybe in a few different cities and seeing what comes back my way for the pure comedy aspect of course. Anyway, hope that didn’t offend anyone, not like anyone reads this but yea, just thought that was something that needed to be shared.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Longest blog ever
Ok, so 9 months in Aberdeen and this kid is not a happy camper. Why not, well there are many reasons. Some I know, some are a mystery even to me, but these are not important, what is important is what am I going to do about it!
This plan was not hatched in 1 day and I am sure it will not be final either (actually, I’m writing this so its not a lot of random thoughts in my head but an actual plan) So first I need a place. Thinking logically I have lived in 4 places that I remember. Washington D.C, Kingson, Ontario, Liberty, Texas and Aberdeen Scotland. While I liked all of them at times I also disliked all of them at times for different reasons. In order to move forwards with an effective future I think the past needs to be analyzed to make the best future possible.
So let’s go in order.
Why did I live in Washington. Well that’s easy, I was 10, and mom lived there and I lived with Mom…
What did I like about it? Lots to do (Museums, restaurants, bars, pubs) some really good friends from high school. Lots of Family (extended family). The Townhouse is awesome. Like the hardwood floors. Like my big shower and big bedroom. Safe place to live. Gym at the corner. Pool for swimming of lazing around during the summer.
What did I not like? Bad water pressure (Ok so this is apparently going to get detailed, but that’s the best way to ensure a better tomorrow right?) 45 mins drive to School. Lived in a neighborhood just too far away to walk anywhere. Was the only person my age in neighborhood.
Ok On to Kingston
What did I like?
Great friends. House was always busy with someone doing something. Did not get bored. Walked everywhere. Places to go out when I wanted to and people to go out with. Intramurals.
What did I not like?
Walked everywhere in bad weather (Cold snow and rain)
Liberty
What I liked? Big apartment. ShinerBach beer. Had my truck and my operators and my my tools (Its called a cell system if your in Schlumberger) No traffic. Airports close by with direct flights everywhere. Houston has everything you could want. (Baseball, football, huge mall, beach, great food) . Great Winter weather. Loved the convertible!
What I didn’t like? Had to drive everywhere. Stopped being challenged at work. Thought being only a USLand engineer would make me less well rounded. To humid in summer.
Aberdeen
What I like?
$$$ most I have ever made, Great downtown with food bars, pubs etc. Lots of people to work with makes sure that I get along very well with at least some of them. Always people to go out with.. Always see the sun in Summer. Gas Stove
What I don’t like?
Apartment is small with too many doors. Never see the sun in Winter. Carpet has no padding. People talk weird. Girls dress stupidly. I work too much. I drink too much. I gamble too much. I have a lifetime ban from my casino (Is that a good thing?)
So now we come to the important thing. What am I looking for in my future to make me happy.
First, a little analysis. Good things over all. Friends are important, not a boring place, able to walk around, places to go out for a meal or a drink, big enough place to live with soft carpet and hardwood floors in a city with a major airport and some kind of local sports team to back and a good “local” brew and the ability to play sports myself.
So this list other than the first statement is not difficult to find. San Diego has all of this and great weather. I’ve heard great things about San Antonio and Denver. But If I found a city that has all of the above with my best friends there, wouldn’t that be better? Yes it would….. I think.. So not all my best friends live in 1 place. But 2 of them do!
Now here is the rub on that. (And I am talking about Calgary if anyone hasn’t figured that out yet) Would it be as good as I think it would be? It would not be like Queens for many reasons, the simplest being all my friends that were “single” at Queens are not single anymore.
***** Ok I wrote this whole thing yesterday and am board of reading now So I amgoing to post the whole thing without reading the rest. It may suck. This is your warning*****
Now this is both a good thing and a bad thing. Luckily the people they are not single with are fun people so I quickly double the number of people I know, but it does mean I have to share and I am an only child for all intensive purposes and am not very good at sharing. I have also not really experienced a Canadian Winter in 3 years, and while Aberdeen does have sucky winter weather I was offshore for most of it, and we do our best to stay inside away from the wind and the cold, but more importantly it doesn’t snow more than 1 inch offshore. And what I hated most about the snow was how it got the bottom of your pants wet when you walked in it. Calgary would have that problem.
So if I did move to Calgary where would I live to satisfy all my desires. Well while writing this I spent several hours looking at Calgary real-estate and there is tons out there. What really caught my eye were the Luxury condo’s downtown. They have hardwood floors, Granite Kitchens, Gas stoves, and from the looks of it soft carpet They also have huge price tags.
This may be a good place to discuss the possible ways of moving to Calgary. They way I see it there are 3 ways. Quit Schlumberger and get a job with a company in Calgary. Is this possible? I am pretty sure I am hirable with most majors, and I do interview very well. Plus 3 years of looking at logs would make me a half decent petrophysisit, but would I enjoy that? Who knows, maybe a topic for a future blog, and it would be a pretty serious pay cut I am sure. How much would this affect my ability to buy a luxury condo, again I’m not sure but research will have to be done. Second, I could stay with Schlumberger and ask for a transfer to Calgary. Now there are basically 3 things I can do with big Blue in Calgary. Sales or DCS in downtown, or instructor at Airdre. Again all of these would be drastic pay cuts, but again for a normal life is it worth it. While Sales or DCS would take me out of operations and therefore management in the short term and maybe forever, instructor is often a stepping stone to FSM or Ops manager positions and doesn’t everyone want to be a manager, I mean you don’t actually work anymore. Your job is to get other people to work and isn’t that the American dream. (Interesting that this American is thinking of moving to be happy in a country that is not America, again another blog??) Anyway, back to this blog. Third and this is an option that makes sense on so many levels except the common sense one. Go work in a Schlumberger SHL (Shit hole location) Now these SHLs have special rules like work 6 weeks here and we will let you go take 3 weeks off anywhere you want and still let you make good money. Or work in a slightly bigger SHL for 4 weeks and go take 4 weeks of anywhere you want for less, but still good money. So while I would not be living full time in Calgary I would have a home base there and with that I would be able to come back to a home. Also, and this is where I will need some help from the local community, but If I had a 2 bedroom nice apartment downtown living there only 3 out of every 9 weeks isn’t in conceivable that someone would wan to live there too. Like having a roommate that could pay half the bills and half the mortgage. Not a bad plan, at least in the short term.
So I guess that about sums up this blog. I think it has left me with more questions than answers. One question being how did I manage to be 25 with such poor writing skills? Others like what would it be like living in Calgary full time. It would not be like a vacation. Where are the good parts of downtown to live? Do I really want to live downtown? Do I need a stupidly overpriced apartment to live in? (I do remember buying a sweet car and every time I drove it I had a smile on my face and maybe a sweet apartment would do the same thing which would be good)
It has also answered some things for me, and answers are always good. If this is the right thing to do it shows me that I will have to start preparing now my doing a better job of saving. I will start this by setting some goals, first of which is establishing a budget and living by it. Apparently this is normal for people, but I have never done this in my life. Even when I had no money and was driving around the Midwest with a Jeep full of food and enough money for gas I just lived on what I had. Now I have more and I live on more. So budget here I come. If anyone has any kind of excel budget sheet that they find helpful, or even better if someone has some free time and wants to make me up a budget please do it.
I also need to figure out how much money I need in the bank when/if I come to Calgary. This would be a goal or as I like to think of it a challenge, and I think everyone knows how competitive I am when it come to challenges. I think the other thing that really nees to happen is to test the job waters in Calgary. Now I have done this before with some success, but actually committing and not talking to friends Dad’s who know people up there may be a better way to go. So I can do this both inside and outside of SLB. Inside is defiantly easier with my next (and final) field promotion coming up before the end of the year (I really need to start working on this). I get a carrier Orientation Review where I can say what I want to do and where I want to go in the future. (Again, I will need to figure that out before then, but I really do think writing this has helped that).
So there I am. Some questions worked out, many more found but I have some goal like things to reach for in the next little while and it only took 1,898 words!
Please Please comment on this. Is this a terrible idea that will ruin my life. I need to know other people’s thoughts.
This plan was not hatched in 1 day and I am sure it will not be final either (actually, I’m writing this so its not a lot of random thoughts in my head but an actual plan) So first I need a place. Thinking logically I have lived in 4 places that I remember. Washington D.C, Kingson, Ontario, Liberty, Texas and Aberdeen Scotland. While I liked all of them at times I also disliked all of them at times for different reasons. In order to move forwards with an effective future I think the past needs to be analyzed to make the best future possible.
So let’s go in order.
Why did I live in Washington. Well that’s easy, I was 10, and mom lived there and I lived with Mom…
What did I like about it? Lots to do (Museums, restaurants, bars, pubs) some really good friends from high school. Lots of Family (extended family). The Townhouse is awesome. Like the hardwood floors. Like my big shower and big bedroom. Safe place to live. Gym at the corner. Pool for swimming of lazing around during the summer.
What did I not like? Bad water pressure (Ok so this is apparently going to get detailed, but that’s the best way to ensure a better tomorrow right?) 45 mins drive to School. Lived in a neighborhood just too far away to walk anywhere. Was the only person my age in neighborhood.
Ok On to Kingston
What did I like?
Great friends. House was always busy with someone doing something. Did not get bored. Walked everywhere. Places to go out when I wanted to and people to go out with. Intramurals.
What did I not like?
Walked everywhere in bad weather (Cold snow and rain)
Liberty
What I liked? Big apartment. ShinerBach beer. Had my truck and my operators and my my tools (Its called a cell system if your in Schlumberger) No traffic. Airports close by with direct flights everywhere. Houston has everything you could want. (Baseball, football, huge mall, beach, great food) . Great Winter weather. Loved the convertible!
What I didn’t like? Had to drive everywhere. Stopped being challenged at work. Thought being only a USLand engineer would make me less well rounded. To humid in summer.
Aberdeen
What I like?
$$$ most I have ever made, Great downtown with food bars, pubs etc. Lots of people to work with makes sure that I get along very well with at least some of them. Always people to go out with.. Always see the sun in Summer. Gas Stove
What I don’t like?
Apartment is small with too many doors. Never see the sun in Winter. Carpet has no padding. People talk weird. Girls dress stupidly. I work too much. I drink too much. I gamble too much. I have a lifetime ban from my casino (Is that a good thing?)
So now we come to the important thing. What am I looking for in my future to make me happy.
First, a little analysis. Good things over all. Friends are important, not a boring place, able to walk around, places to go out for a meal or a drink, big enough place to live with soft carpet and hardwood floors in a city with a major airport and some kind of local sports team to back and a good “local” brew and the ability to play sports myself.
So this list other than the first statement is not difficult to find. San Diego has all of this and great weather. I’ve heard great things about San Antonio and Denver. But If I found a city that has all of the above with my best friends there, wouldn’t that be better? Yes it would….. I think.. So not all my best friends live in 1 place. But 2 of them do!
Now here is the rub on that. (And I am talking about Calgary if anyone hasn’t figured that out yet) Would it be as good as I think it would be? It would not be like Queens for many reasons, the simplest being all my friends that were “single” at Queens are not single anymore.
***** Ok I wrote this whole thing yesterday and am board of reading now So I amgoing to post the whole thing without reading the rest. It may suck. This is your warning*****
Now this is both a good thing and a bad thing. Luckily the people they are not single with are fun people so I quickly double the number of people I know, but it does mean I have to share and I am an only child for all intensive purposes and am not very good at sharing. I have also not really experienced a Canadian Winter in 3 years, and while Aberdeen does have sucky winter weather I was offshore for most of it, and we do our best to stay inside away from the wind and the cold, but more importantly it doesn’t snow more than 1 inch offshore. And what I hated most about the snow was how it got the bottom of your pants wet when you walked in it. Calgary would have that problem.
So if I did move to Calgary where would I live to satisfy all my desires. Well while writing this I spent several hours looking at Calgary real-estate and there is tons out there. What really caught my eye were the Luxury condo’s downtown. They have hardwood floors, Granite Kitchens, Gas stoves, and from the looks of it soft carpet They also have huge price tags.
This may be a good place to discuss the possible ways of moving to Calgary. They way I see it there are 3 ways. Quit Schlumberger and get a job with a company in Calgary. Is this possible? I am pretty sure I am hirable with most majors, and I do interview very well. Plus 3 years of looking at logs would make me a half decent petrophysisit, but would I enjoy that? Who knows, maybe a topic for a future blog, and it would be a pretty serious pay cut I am sure. How much would this affect my ability to buy a luxury condo, again I’m not sure but research will have to be done. Second, I could stay with Schlumberger and ask for a transfer to Calgary. Now there are basically 3 things I can do with big Blue in Calgary. Sales or DCS in downtown, or instructor at Airdre. Again all of these would be drastic pay cuts, but again for a normal life is it worth it. While Sales or DCS would take me out of operations and therefore management in the short term and maybe forever, instructor is often a stepping stone to FSM or Ops manager positions and doesn’t everyone want to be a manager, I mean you don’t actually work anymore. Your job is to get other people to work and isn’t that the American dream. (Interesting that this American is thinking of moving to be happy in a country that is not America, again another blog??) Anyway, back to this blog. Third and this is an option that makes sense on so many levels except the common sense one. Go work in a Schlumberger SHL (Shit hole location) Now these SHLs have special rules like work 6 weeks here and we will let you go take 3 weeks off anywhere you want and still let you make good money. Or work in a slightly bigger SHL for 4 weeks and go take 4 weeks of anywhere you want for less, but still good money. So while I would not be living full time in Calgary I would have a home base there and with that I would be able to come back to a home. Also, and this is where I will need some help from the local community, but If I had a 2 bedroom nice apartment downtown living there only 3 out of every 9 weeks isn’t in conceivable that someone would wan to live there too. Like having a roommate that could pay half the bills and half the mortgage. Not a bad plan, at least in the short term.
So I guess that about sums up this blog. I think it has left me with more questions than answers. One question being how did I manage to be 25 with such poor writing skills? Others like what would it be like living in Calgary full time. It would not be like a vacation. Where are the good parts of downtown to live? Do I really want to live downtown? Do I need a stupidly overpriced apartment to live in? (I do remember buying a sweet car and every time I drove it I had a smile on my face and maybe a sweet apartment would do the same thing which would be good)
It has also answered some things for me, and answers are always good. If this is the right thing to do it shows me that I will have to start preparing now my doing a better job of saving. I will start this by setting some goals, first of which is establishing a budget and living by it. Apparently this is normal for people, but I have never done this in my life. Even when I had no money and was driving around the Midwest with a Jeep full of food and enough money for gas I just lived on what I had. Now I have more and I live on more. So budget here I come. If anyone has any kind of excel budget sheet that they find helpful, or even better if someone has some free time and wants to make me up a budget please do it.
I also need to figure out how much money I need in the bank when/if I come to Calgary. This would be a goal or as I like to think of it a challenge, and I think everyone knows how competitive I am when it come to challenges. I think the other thing that really nees to happen is to test the job waters in Calgary. Now I have done this before with some success, but actually committing and not talking to friends Dad’s who know people up there may be a better way to go. So I can do this both inside and outside of SLB. Inside is defiantly easier with my next (and final) field promotion coming up before the end of the year (I really need to start working on this). I get a carrier Orientation Review where I can say what I want to do and where I want to go in the future. (Again, I will need to figure that out before then, but I really do think writing this has helped that).
So there I am. Some questions worked out, many more found but I have some goal like things to reach for in the next little while and it only took 1,898 words!
Please Please comment on this. Is this a terrible idea that will ruin my life. I need to know other people’s thoughts.
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