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A coworker showed me this today. With a name like that how can they loose. Follow me as I go to the top!
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.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Wow, I feel so bad for my fans for not having anything to read!!
But seriously sorry if anyone actually does read this. I'll asume that the only people that read this are in calgary seeing as they have the biggest red dot on the map, and the other big one is in Aberdeen where I think I am the only one who reads it. But yea, Calgary... lots of time spent with awsome frends and having good times... although not as much drinking as I would have liked. SLB school got int he way for the middle week, but all in all an effective holiday.
Anyway, after that the intresting stuff that no one knows about happened. On my flight back it took a little longer than anticipated because England was in a storm of the century when i landed. Our plane got struck by lightning 3 times while we were circling waiting to land(Which the Pilot kept saying was normal but was worrying me a lot) After that we sat on the runway for 2 hours because there was no where to park because no flights were leaving. So we finally got a parking space and my flight to Aberdeen was cancled and I was supposed to wait in a crazy long line to talk to someone about it but basically I would have to sleep in the airport. SO instead I took a bus to my aunt's house and stayed with her until Sunday when things had calmed down. Too bad my luggage didn't arrive till yesterday and all my clothes were wet :-( Lots of laundry to do now.
On Thursday I went to Paris for the day for a meeting (I arived at 10:30 am and left at 2:30 pm so to say it was a fast trip would be an understatement). Anyway, I got what I needed to done (Lots of listing and me saying yes sir) and got back to Aberdeen in time to get some work done too :-)
Ok, thats all my fun for now. Loading out a job for west of the Shetland Islands now and should be there around the end of the week so I have a 3.5 hour chopper ride to lookforwards too.... and I already have a broken tail bone :-(
Wow, what a booring life. I'll try and do something more exciting soon and write about it.
Later
Ricky
Anyway, after that the intresting stuff that no one knows about happened. On my flight back it took a little longer than anticipated because England was in a storm of the century when i landed. Our plane got struck by lightning 3 times while we were circling waiting to land(Which the Pilot kept saying was normal but was worrying me a lot) After that we sat on the runway for 2 hours because there was no where to park because no flights were leaving. So we finally got a parking space and my flight to Aberdeen was cancled and I was supposed to wait in a crazy long line to talk to someone about it but basically I would have to sleep in the airport. SO instead I took a bus to my aunt's house and stayed with her until Sunday when things had calmed down. Too bad my luggage didn't arrive till yesterday and all my clothes were wet :-( Lots of laundry to do now.
On Thursday I went to Paris for the day for a meeting (I arived at 10:30 am and left at 2:30 pm so to say it was a fast trip would be an understatement). Anyway, I got what I needed to done (Lots of listing and me saying yes sir) and got back to Aberdeen in time to get some work done too :-)
Ok, thats all my fun for now. Loading out a job for west of the Shetland Islands now and should be there around the end of the week so I have a 3.5 hour chopper ride to lookforwards too.... and I already have a broken tail bone :-(
Wow, what a booring life. I'll try and do something more exciting soon and write about it.
Later
Ricky
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
I’ve been to the mother fucking mountain top…….
So its been awhile since I’ve done any serious blogging. Honestly I’m not sure why. My life hasen’t been very interesting, but that never stopped me before. Well I actually do have a little bit of excitement to talk about so here goes…… and as for the title goes, well its just a song that’s been stuck in my head for a while now, not sure why but I am open to suggestions.
So to start with I should have written this about a week ago, or maybe longer. On the work front the big huge “Most important job in Aberdeen this year” and therefore the most important Wireline job for Schlumberger this year was completed on May 25 my your truly. Everything defiantly did not go according to plan, but I think overall we (John a fellow American was the other engineer) we did a good job, actually we did a great job. We had some failures(Not our fault), but we were on the limits with everything and for the most part dealt with the stress of the weight of the Wireline world on our shoulders, and half the SLB world literally looking over our shoulders well. I can’t really say anymore about the job because it’s a tight hole (ha ha ha, yea I laugh every time I say it too). Now its just back to do all the final paperwork and get this “HUGE” check that everyone keeps talking about.
O yea just to keep everyone updates I was offshore from May 2-18, than back on land for the 19-20, then back out from the 21-25, so a total of 20 days offshore in a month, new record for me!
Ok so now for the fun stuff on Friday the 25th when the job was finally over we had Chinese for dinner. We being John, another Texan and myself. All three of us drank quite a few beers ad decided that the best place to spend the rest of the night was the Casino. This was not a surprise because all 3 of us do enjoy the gambling, although 1 of us (not me) usually walks away up a lot of money. SO anyway on our way to the International casino we pass the new casino that opened upstairs from the club I mentioned earlier that is in an old church. The Casino is owned by the same people (No not God) but as the club is called Soul it is called Soul Casino. So we decide that we have walked far enough and we will stop to deposit out money into the hole at the end of the roulette table here. We sign up and as the place has only been open for 2 weeks they decide to give us the grand tour. Doesn’t hurt that when they ask if we are members at any other casinos we all pull out multiple black membership cards. So we head up the elevator and it opens into the most impressive room I have seen in
So anyway we start playing roulette and this is where I start to do amazing things. Not not just o he won in a casino amazing, but like, oh my god this cannot happen in the physical universe amazing.
So for starters I buy in for 20 $. O and for record $ means pounds and all the money I talk about should be doubled to convert to US dollars.
Ok her goes with what I remember. I was playing 0.25$ chips and covering the board, basically playing the middle numbers and making a flower around 26. I was staying about even when I decided to change my bet and just bet a few numbers. When I was betteing I put 8 chips down on 15 and 3 on 3. My only 2 bets on the table, what hits …… 15, that’s 8X35 chips, that’s a lot. I go nutz. I make a neighbors bet. (Bet 25$ on a number that splits down to 5$ on 5 numbers in a slice of the wheel and pays ut 175$ if you win. I hit it. I let the bet spin again, it hit again, I had over 500 in my hand. The 3rd of the group who is normally taking money from casinos is loosing, I do feel slightly better but he maxed out his card and I gave him a loan.
I then walked over to the blackjack table and start to play. 5$ hand, won to 10, 10 goes to 20. make the bet 100, and I won. At this point the other guy on the table is just laughing nearly as much as me. I bet the table maximum of 200$ and wouldn’t you know it, I hit blackjack for 300$. I go back to the roulette table with all green $100 chips and ask John what will hit. He is a student of the numbers tonight for some reason, but he doing well so no harm, and he says it will be a low one. I put 200$ on the first 12, it lands on 6. I make 400$, if you know the order of a wheel you know that 6 is surrounded on both sides by high numbers for at least 5 in each direction, there is no way it should land on 6, but it does and I peak for the night at 1200$, that’s 2400 real $, that’s like 2 weeks work almost all this and it might be 10 pm. Everyone tells me to cash out, I go to play blackjack. I make 5 consecutive 200$ bets and loose them all, I am back down to 200$. I am sad. I demand the free sand wedges that we were promised on entry. Before they get there I am down to 50$. I am upset.
I work the wheel again all the way back to 800$. I can do no wrong. The third guy borrows money again, make almost all he owes back to me and runs home. mE and John continue until
So the next day I buy 100$ worth of wine and Scotch, Scotch for a guy that helped out a lot on the job, 1 nice bottle of whine for my Aunt that I went to visit and the rest to stock up. Then went to work. Went back to the casino the next night after a night of bar hopping and watching Pirates 3, which really sucks. And lost 300$ back but I was still up.
Mom came on Sunday to visit which was great, will write about that later, but I took her on Tuesday and made another 200$. So bottom line. Looks like I found a new ATM machine when the money doesen’t come from my account, brilliant.
On Wednesday I went down with Mom to my Aunt and we had a family reunion with 2 new family members (2 new babies, 1 cousin and 1 great cousin (I know that doesen’t exist but its my Cousin’s baby and I don’t know what to call it) Again will write more about that later.
Anyway only 3 weeks of work until my vacation J Hopefully it will go fast. Will write more soon now that life is a little more slow.
Bye
Ricky
Saturday, April 21, 2007
My Life is booring
Hi All,
I am not disregarding my loyal readers but I just have nothing interesting to write about and I will not more you with mindless details. Basically my life the last 3 weeks has boiled down to preparing "The most important job in Schlumberger this year." If any of the tools fail we will lose a worldwide contract and many people will loose their jobs. (No one has said I will be one of those people..... but I think if things go wrong I may be looking for another job). Hopefully it all goes right but the job is at the limit of most of the tools so we shall see.
I am going down to a testing facility this weekend to test the tools but it is a pretty superficial test. It is down in Edinburgh which if you may remember was a lot of fun last time I went. It will be a much lower key visit with work stuff to do, but still should have a little excitement.
Goodnight and good luck
Ricky
I am not disregarding my loyal readers but I just have nothing interesting to write about and I will not more you with mindless details. Basically my life the last 3 weeks has boiled down to preparing "The most important job in Schlumberger this year." If any of the tools fail we will lose a worldwide contract and many people will loose their jobs. (No one has said I will be one of those people..... but I think if things go wrong I may be looking for another job). Hopefully it all goes right but the job is at the limit of most of the tools so we shall see.
I am going down to a testing facility this weekend to test the tools but it is a pretty superficial test. It is down in Edinburgh which if you may remember was a lot of fun last time I went. It will be a much lower key visit with work stuff to do, but still should have a little excitement.
Goodnight and good luck
Ricky
Saturday, March 10, 2007
My List
So a while ago I promised a list of my 25 gratest accomplishments so far and the 75 to come in the next 75 years. I am still working on the list but I seem to have hit a wall and I need help. This is my list so far. Remember these are 25 things fromt he first 25 years of my life, and 75 things to do before I reach 60, cause as we all know after 60 life will be nothing but living in an old folks home and pissing in depends. So here is the list so far, please send comments on what I am missing, or if you hav any ideas on how/when to accomplish these things.
To do in future::
1) Do so well in an activity that I can drape the American flag over me when I am finished like in Rocky 4
2) Enter a free style battle like in 8 mile
3) Have sex with a stripper/prostitute or a girl that has sex like strippers do.
4) Bungee jump
5) Jump out of a plane with a parachute
6) Drink so much Hypnotic that I get hallucinations.
7) Get drunk on 5 different continents. ( So far North America and Europe, possibilities are South America, Africa, Australia and Asia)
8) Spend new years in 2 different places in the same year by flying backwards.
9) Go to an open casting call and try and get a part in a movie.
10) Sleep with an American Girl
11) Own hummer H3 and a Sports car at the same time
12) Get married
13) Have at least 2 children, 1 boy 1 girl
14) Get a dog / have a job or life that allows to me take care of a dog
15) Live at a beach for a year (Could be combined with 27)
16) Run a marathon
17) Attend a racing driver’s school
18) Go to concert at Red rocks
19) See the Northern Lights
20) World Series of Poker main event
21) Watch these 10 movies: The Queen, 49 Up, The Departed, United 93, Neil Young -- Heart of Gold, 13 Tzameti, 51 Birch Street, Half Nelson, Heart of the Game, Little Miss Sunshine
22) Read more .books, starting with books that movies are based on so I can comment that the movie is nothing like the book
23) Live out of a 1 bag for a year (Schlumberger Camp Location ???)
24) Spend an entire year outside of the US and see if my views change at all (2008 is the plan)
25) Buy an entire bar a round of drinks
26) In my apartment: install fireman’s pole in home and get female to dance
27) For 1 year live in a town with a Baseball team and get season tickets and attend every home game
28) Become so important that random people know who I am
29) 2 words… Go Fast
30) Break 90 playing golf
31) Own a Golden Tee arcade game
32) Watch a season of 24 in fewer than 24 hours
33) Own a house with one of those entrances with 2 stairways at the bottom that merge on the next floor up
18 Places to go: Goa, South Africa, Australia, Hawaii, Everest Base camp, Rain Forest, a really big waterfall that I can swim under, Yankee Game, Celtics game, Red Socks game, Rome/Vatacan City, Raft on the Colorado River, Alaska, Back to Canyon lands NP, Argentina, Space, Spain, Mauritania (SLB rig in Offshore Africa).
Things I’ve Done (Top 25 life moments?)
1) Being Born
1) saw the Rolling Stones in Concert; everything will try to live up to that for all time
2) Live in Washington DC area
3) Eagle Scout
3) In three varsity sports score a goal/point/run in my senior year
4) Scored the game winning run from first base without the ball being hit, possible the best baseball play ever seen on any level. (We were down 1-0 in the 7th to St. James, they had there #1 pitcher on the mound, we got a guy on first, made an out, then there was a ball in the dirt, then someone hit a single. Runners on 1st and 3rd. I pinch run for the guy on first and coach calls for the break early. I break and the pitcher doesn’t want to throw the ball with a runner on 3rd. I stop in between first and second and just stand there. Pitcher steps off and eventually throws the ball, I get caught in a rundown for 3 throws, guy on 3rd breaks for home, ball goes to home, throw is high, Greg slides under the catcher and ties the game, I round second and cant find the third baseman because he was involved in my earlier rundown, so I head to 3rd. Catcher sees me and throws to 3rd. I avoid ball, Left fielder is out to lunch, I round bag and score game winning run, get mobbed my team and fans…. Unfortunately there was no American flag to drape around me)
5) Hit the game winning shot.
6) Spring Break in the Dominican
7) Change my name
8) Drive across the US and most of Canada
9) Went off road driving in my Jeep by myself
10) Live out of my Jeep for 4 weeks in the desert
11) Go to Vegas, leave with more money than I came with
12) Graduate from University
13) Went Surfing, rock climbing saw a baseball game, and went to a bar all in the same day (San Diego is the best city in the world that I have been to so far)
14) Got drunk in Tijuana
15) Live in Texas
16) Mexican Resort
17) Make money at a casino
18) Drive a sports car (But I want a faster one)
19) Spring Break in South Padre
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