Rough seas today!I noticed after I went to bed last night that the rig seemed to be rocking at a higher than average amount. Sure enough, when I went to the evening meeting after found out that the heaving of the rig was so extreme that it made drilling unsteady enough that we need to pull out. They hope that we'll be able to drill the extra 1500 feet we didn't finish on our next bit run without any problems. I guess we'll see.
In the meantime I'm just hanging out, getting odds and ends taken care of at a leisurely pace since I have little real work to do tonight. Lucky for me my queasiness is far below that of earlier, when I was a poor wretch of a landlubber on my first day at sea. I was walking across the deck earlier this evening so I could fetch myself a sandwich from the galley when I made a marvelous discovery.
The mere act of walking around is reminiscent of those old marble labyrinth games which so frustrated me. Only out here instead of holes to fall into there are countless pieces of heavy machinery that are not fun to tangle with.
Most of the time it's nothing like this, but for this past week we've had some pretty rough weather, and the Maritime Weather report predicts tomorrow will be worse. So now, when you want to think of me, you can just pull out one of these:
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