Now that I'm moved in and no longer have an apartment in Rock Springs I feel that i'm fully into the next phase of my life.  It has been interesting to say the least.  I use that word loosely.  So how is it going?

Well I like my house very much, when i walk through the door I feel at home, and more important I miss it when I leave.  While my bedroom is still a mess with items I haven't put away yet, I have a good working space, and I don't feel like I'm in a basement anymore...lol

I'm getting along well with my roommates.  Always a situation that is unknown until you live there a while.  Of course I've only spent 24 days in the house total over 6 weeks...lol  i so appreciate coming home to a clean house!  Something that I am most appreciative of.

I've met a wonderful woman and while we are still getting to know each other, I expect good things in the future.  I know she reads this, so i'm not going to say alot right now, but I will say I look forward to my days off even more than I did before.  I enjoy her company!!!  that's an understatement.

I've gotten to explore the area a bit over the last 4 rotations.  While I haven't produced quality photo's yet, I'm learning where to shoot and have been working on my skills with this camera.  recently I shot over 20,000 photo's with my new camera...  would be nice to get another 10,000 frames in before the end of the year...have to get out there!

I'm still working on the new job thing, but i suspect it will happen soon.  I feel pretty good on that front.

The basics of my business plan are coming together.   I have some basic goals and have been working on the specifics for next spring.

currently on track with my weight and exercise goals.  (at least until October 1st...lol might be close)  i'm feeling better than I have in years.  While I have a lot of work to do, I'm moving in the right direction.  My blood suger is behaving, which is a direct result of the exercise, and keeping my weight down.

Over all things are really going good...really good.  Even when i bitch about something, I think, shouldn't really be bitching...lol  i wanted to put this down, so when Its not as good I have a reference.  The goal is to keep moving forward not backward...why, because I'm not going that way!!!

In this part of Act II  life is good!

Finely got around to finishing up some pics from last rotation. 

Had a nice trip up the Mesa near Grand Junction.  Posted the pics in a album.  Take a look!

Tonight is one one of those rare nights that you are working and getting paid and you don't mind it...lol  We came back out to the Joana today and can't get on the pad until tomorrow.  Damm...a whole shift in Mancamp doing what ever I want and not working in the shop...  really hard stuff.  This last week has been so busy or at least it has seemed so.  Problem children at the shop requiring too much attention (broken trucks). 

Tonight I've been listening to the new CD's I've bought in the last few weeks and catching up on a number of details that have been left not taken care of...

I'm listening to a Cd called "trampled by turtles"  which I bought by accident...lol  turns out to be great.  always nice to have a little surprise. As I was going through the music on this computer, and listening to bits and pieces of songs, I discovered something lost.

Each song like a string on my soul.  playing them releases so much emotion within me.  Good and Bad.  Sometimes I forget just how much I had shut down.  rare moments like this I realize how far I've traveled. Day by day I feel a bit more alive.  Ii still feel like i'm in a desert, but I'm under a big sky and I can see the stars and I know where I'm at.  And it's all right, I've traveled by star light many times before:)

Had a nice workout yesterday and today.  At the motel while back in town.  We don't go out until Monday Night.  WIll be good to get out of here, but it hasn't been to bad being on nights.  Less bullshit.

Yesterday got a good 65 minutes and 740 cal burn on the eliptical.  today kept it down to 30 minutes.  So tomorrow and Monday working out at the hotel.  At mancamp there just isn't enough  time, easier to do the resistance band in the field.

Jay and I have been beating our heads against the wall on a nitrogen unit that hasn't been working.  the closer we get the more screwed up it seems to be.  drive's me crazy..  It would be handy if our schematics were correct, of course..lol  like that would happen.

Well I should stop writing in my blog, get off of break and go back to work to finish some of this stuff up.  Ya..not into it at all tonight...lol  thus is life.