Time for a break

Well, I'm on my way to yet another well deserved break ? While I am away, some more characters are leaving the project. The photograph on the left shows myself with Abdul (left) and DM (right). Both are on thier way back to India. It has been good fun working with these guys, so I wish them the best of luck when they return home. Thanks guys for your help with the Hindi language (even the naughty stuff!). On the right we have Matt, who is leaving for a year long break, with his wife, to Canada, starting with a season of winter sports in Whistler. He will then head for the Uk to work for a few years, before heading back to Australia. May see you around again on another project. I am now packing my flight bag, ready for my flight at two in the morning, along with Darren Brown, Jeff Allen and Richard Wells. See you in a couple of weeks.

One week to a well deserved break

Well, this is the end of week five, and just one more week to go before I head back to the Uk for a coouple of weeks off. We have had another couple of leavers this week; our Management-of- Change (MoC) coordinator, Mike Sharp, and IC Lead engineer, Thangaraj, shown in the picture, and now on his way back to India. Good luck to them both. As I have mentioned before, Matt Thompson is due to leave next week, taking a lot of system knowledge with him. As a result he has been handing some items over to me (as if I am not busy enough). So I have been getting up to speed with some of his handover material. My colleague Tom Evitts will be back on Sunday, so hopefully we can catch up with all our tasks before I leave Wednesday evening. Now the number of people on site is really falling, there does not seem to be as many social events going on, so things are quieter. Ususal Friday off - gym followed by lunch at camp, and chilling out for the afternoon. I am on-call until I leave, but with any luck, the phone will not ring! Time to chill! Bye for now.

A Quiet Week

Nothing much to report this week. There was a BBQ last friday evening, at the 5o5 club, but I forgot all about it. I have been kept busy this week, but nothing too exciting. Just walked back from the JK Camp mess hall, after lunch with Darren Brown. The walk back was quite slow, as Darren has hurt his leg. He has been limping around the office all week. Get well soon Darren; at least before you go for your break in two weeks.

No gym this morning. I woke up early, but felt so tired, that I decided to go back to sleep and recover some lost sleep. I got up about 10 o'clock, had a shower and went to lunch. Nothing too exciting to do this afternoon, so after completing this blog, I will probably chill out and watch a movie.

Picture shows the walkway between the POB and CCR (control room) buildings, with John McElveen from Honeywell Atlanta (unaware that I just took a picture of him), heading to the CCR to check out some communication issues for me. Well that's it for now. Later!

Technical Expertise Team

My self and Tom Evitts from Honeywell Atlanta, US, form the DCS Controls Technical Expertise Group, supporting Honeywell engineers, as well as Shell. Tom has just left for two weeks off, leaving me to cope alone. I have got some help, in the form of John McElveen, (in the blue t-shirt) who is also from Honeywell Atlanta. He is looking after the serial comms side of things, and currently helping me out with some PCDI comms, Safety Manager investigations. There is also another Honeywell Atlanta engineer, Charles, not in the picture. All three came to site a few months ago, together. The Atlanta office must be quite empty at the moment! This week I have started the process of taking over the "Asset model" here on site, as Matt Thompson, who has looked after it for years now, may be leaving at the end of October, and like most of our Australian friends, will be taking some time off and trecking around the world, starting apparently with a year in Canada. I have another three weeks out here before my next break, also at the end of October. I am looking forward to that. I will probably have to do some early Christmas shopping, as the next time I go back to the UK will be 22nd December. A bit late to start shopping.