A new year, a new hope, an OLD resolution

It's been three days since my last post and three days since my last major disaster on the job. Ever since then things have been going (*fingers crossed!!!*) relatively smoothly. There was a glitch or two along the way -- incorrectly configured cables made downloading the data from our tool a challenge -- our surveys were being incorrectly calculated so there was a hunt deep in the bowels of the computer data to solve the mystery -- but nothing so heart-stoppingly hectic as before.

Dare I hope that things have turned a corner for the better? All jobs have their hiccups in the beginning; ours were more like full body seizures. It's a nice feeling to be entering the new year with a few less worries on one's shoulders. Let's hope it stays that way.

We finished drilling the previous section two days ago. I've caught up on all my reports in the meantime, but seeing as how I'm the only one on the crew without any family in Louisiana (the day directional driller has two grandkids, the night directional driller has a pregnant wife, and my night hand has two pre-school aged boys himself) I volunteered to be the one person to stay on the rig while they run casing and act as the "company liaison" to schedule tool shipments and crew transport for everyone when the rig is ready to start drilling again.

So I've got until Monday (by current estimates) to just hang out here and watch movies on my laptop. They might change their minds and send me in anyway, but I'm not opposed to making another holiday bonus for merely staving off the boredom on New Year's Day. After all, I've worked hard enough these past two weeks to deserve a little "easy money".

Oh, and can anyone guess what my New Year's Resolution this year will be?