inventory delirium

we now have an aft camera on the new sub

at the end of the day, aft sounds a lot like ass...
most of the guys don't even try to pronounce a-f-t anymore

:P

the angry mob...

... is finally coming on Sunday probably, maybe

After loads of delays and push backs, the rig gave the ok for the new system to come on board... should be here on Sunday... meaning we can start unplugging Mag33 Friday or Saturday or tomorrow.

That'll make my last week here very busy and interesting... and no more time for inventory YAY! I'm not delusional though.. I know the list will be waiting for me when I come back cause no one else will want to do it :S

and I'm coming home in 8 days! woohoo!!!

more whaaaaaaales!!!!

There was one right beside the rig!!! could almost have touched it if my arms had been rubber and able to stretch 26m to reach water below :P

She waved goodbye with her tail before going deep :)

and to think I was piloting 2 hours before... it came this close to a face to face well camera encounter! XD

and it sunny and I didn't have to do inventory today and we finally managed to fix the laptop to make it less tedious

YAY!
:D

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaales!!!

I saw whales!!!

FINALLY!!!

On night shift you hear but don't see them...

During fire drill, at 10am, there was a couple of them blowing air right by the life raft :D

YAY!

how do you do? WHO CARES!!!

I find it so annoying when people say "how's it goin'?" instead of "Hello"...
they don't wanna know how I'm doing in most case they don't even stop walking to hear the answer...
Anyway, no matter how you're doing, you're gonna reply "good", and there's no time to return the question 'cause the person is already halfway down the corridor by the time you say something.

I wonder what the person would do if I started wailing that my day is crap and I don't know what I'm doing here and a good friend of mine is in the hospital... and just kept on going like that for 5 minutes... might be worth a laugh :P

so here's a list of suggestion... next time you walk down the corridor and see someone, just pick one!!!

hey
hi
hello
g' morning
good evening (preferably with a Transylvania drawl)
g' night

lady ocean

I wish I could film the water out there right now... it's having a tantrum...
We are at 6-7m waves (19-23ft) and it should go up to 9-10m (29-33ft) during the day/evening plus a bit of wind.. like 80-90km/h

It's beautiful to watch.. but also a reminder that lady ocean is not someone you want to piss off :P

makes walking around tricky though no I still don't have sea legs apparently I'm back to walking in a drunken pattern, from wall to wall, occasionally crashing in pieces of equipment like doors, chairs, bench and getting bruised shoulders, arms, knees :P and that's INSIDE! add to that outside, wet, windy, slippery walkway and have a laugh :)

and now it's time to go load a container with all the stuff from the old system we don't need for the new one... so I'll be bobbing around with 30lbs of equipment in my arms... good times!

wish me luck! :P

inventory from hell

Everything that belongs to MAG148 has to be logged in two inventory systems Lighthouse and CBI... This should have been done at some point while it was in the shop... but it wasn't... and in the months of tweaking with it in the shop, everything that was there got moved around...

so now guess who's stuck with emptying all the 5 millions cabinets of their content, one at a time, write on a piece of paper all that's in there, and then try to find it on one or both list and correct the location/how much is left, on 2 different computers...

I'll be at it for weeks... and I am pretty sure that what's left will be waiting for me when I come back do I hear DVDs, a repeat?

2500 different f***** items... tools, bolts, motors, tape, grease, pencils, glue, thrusters, bags, screws, light bulbs, light envelopes, glow sticks, safety glasses, paper towel, o rings, heat guns... shoot me...

told you so

Flock of seagulls

I'm in a Hitchcock movie... the group of birds floating/flying around the rig gets bigger and bigger everyday... there must be at least a thousand of them now...

The birds II... this time it's personal... :P
maybe we'll finally find out why they attacked 46 years ago....

There is a fifth dimension....

...beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the twilight zone...

Yesterday was a figment of my imagination... it didn't exist in this reality... everything I've entered in CBI has gone to the Twilight Zone...

>:(

zzzz

I lack time and material to write anything in here...

A new sub is coming to replace good ol' reliable MAG33... but the mob date keeps being pushed back (it was supposed to be finished before I got here.. now it might be Tuesday.. maybe...)

and the crane is under repair... laid down right above our launch system... so we can't dive...

and we're doing inventory of everything in MAG148's work van... b-o-r-i-n-g and frustrating, cause nothing is where it should be, ID numbers are missing on 2/3 of the material and CBI is a piece of s*** software to use (that's one of our inventory database)

and to top it all.. it's been beautiful and sunny for the past 2 days, but we're cooped up inside doing this...
I predict the next rain storm will start as soon as we're done and have to go work on the subs outside... mom nature hates rovs me think :P

pics are up!!!

at least some of them... :P

I'm nowhere near done, but I don't have time to do more here.. it'll have to wait till I go home...
but there's a bunch to begin with here :

Disney.. first draft click on the picture to get to the album :)