Tyrel's Day at Work

Okay, Tyrel has officially discovered the blog. I apologize for his ramblings, but as a good wife, I couldn't tell him no. The following is his blog, not mine. I want to emphasize that. Enjoy . . .

The day started out at 3:00am when my alarm went off. I woke up hit snooze and went back to sleep. At 3:09 it went off again repeated my previous actions. This evil cycle continued until 3:36 when I got up got dressed and went to start my truck. The battery was dead so I pulled out the battery charger hooked it up and went back in the house for about ten minutes. While in the house I called Josh and told him that I may be a little late. My truck started and I drove to the shop and was only five minutes late. I got all my stuff loaded in the truck, I thought. Josh said he would drive to Bridger Compressor Station an Enterprise facility about forty miles north of Farson Wyoming on the Jonah Field. We left the shop on our way to the wonderful Jonah Field I fell asleep at about exit 18 on I-80 I woke up at about 5:45 to the truck sliding on the road and Josh yelling profanities. We stayed on the road and everything was fine. I went back to sleep. I woke up again when the truck exited WY 191 onto Luman Road. Luman Road is a heavily traveled and not very well mantained dirt road on the Jonah Field. It was 6:40 it's hard to fall asleep with the truck bouncing and the driver complaining about the Texans that can't drive in Wyoming. They go way too slow. When we arrived at the compressor station I found the super for the contractor I was working for and asked him if we could go to work. He told me we had to wait until x-ray was done shooting a weld before we could bolt up a pig launcher we broke out on Monday. Josh parked the truck out of the way and we took a nap. I woke up again at about 9:30 and noticed x-ray had showed up and didn't think it would be too long before we would be doing something. I decided I should get all of my ppe on. This is when I realized I had forgotten my hard hat. I asked the super if he had a hard hat I could borrow he said he did. The problem with it was it belonged to his wife and it was covered with girl power stickers and I felt like a homo wearing it but I have to be safe. It took x-ray until 2:30 to finish. So from about 11:00 until then I played Bomberman on Josh's Nintendo DS. We bolted up the pig launcher and everything went good. I was there to torque a 36' 600 and a 42' 600 series flange. These flanges each have 28 2.5' bolts they require about 7500 ft. pounds of torgue. Everything went pretty smooth I got everything done that I needed to do. I left about 5:50 and began the long journy back to Evanston. I got back to shop at about 8:00 unloaded the truck and went home. This is about typical for my day at work except the forgetting my hard hat. I do feel like a homo alot. But only when someone grabs my butt or I grab someone elses. You have to be very comfortable with your sexuality to work in the oilfield.