Another week, another goodbye

This week Joe Tennant (picture), site supervisor, has left site after 19 months, and heading back home to Tampa, Florida. After a day at home he will be driving to his work base of Honeywell, Huston, Texas, working on the new Shar Gas project, which will eventually lead him to site in Abu Dhabi. He mentioned that there could be a site position for me there too, but we will see! There is a lot of talk about the Shar Gas project out here, but site work is at least a year away. I have been travelling to site with Joe since I started about 15 months. I wish him luck in his return to the US. Today is the first Friday morning that I have not got up early and gone to the gym. I decided I needed a layin this morning, so had a well needed extra two hours sleep. Just been to lunch on the camp, now it is time to check out some movies online. Bye for now.

Back for the Ninth Time

Been back a week now. I have just come back from the gym, after a 2 hrs 45 min session, so I am absolutely shattered, but I have managed to find enough energy to write this blog. I was not too busy at the start of the week, Tom (my Tech Expertise group colleague) sorted out most issues while I was on leave, so no big work load left to sort out. Towards the end of the week a few items came in, but these were managable. Things are cooling down here now, as autumn sets in; temperatures only aound the 40 deg C mark. This summer as a whole has been cooler than last year, when temperatures around 50 deg C and above were common. Also, the mornings are cooler now. There was a dense mist when I went to the gym first thing this morning. Things were uncomfortable when I got back to my room last night after work. The air con failed, and it was unbearable, but maintenance fixed it with an hour or so, and it is ok now. It just shows you that you cannot live without air con during the summer in Qatar. No new pictures this week, so I have added a picture I took of the view of the Qatari desert, from our new office building. I shall be heading to lunch at 11:30, and resting up and watch a movie this afternoon, and maybe download some music videos from Youtube, to my ITouch. Bye for now.