The Week in Review

Well, I am currently enjoying a relaxing weekend in beautiful Colorado. Lucky for me, although I don’t have any vacation this year, ConocoPhillips has a flexible work schedule called 19/30 where if you work 30 minutes extra each day you can take one day off a month. So I am taking Monday this month and therefore have a 3 day weekend.

The flight here was uneventful except for the beginning. As we were boarding the power went off in the plane so everyone had to find their seats using only the emergency lighting. I guess I never realized that planes run off a sort of generator while on the ground and rely on the power from the engine while in the air. We took a drive into the mountains yesterday and stopped in Idaho Springs. It is a quaint little mining town (with a gold mine you can take a tour of). They had a neat little Celtic/Irish store that we looked in before continuing our journey. We also stopped in Georgetown, were there was a Colorado wine tasting place. They had some nice wines (I liked the "Late Harvest Chardonnay" which is an ice wine). While we were there we saw the strangest thing....one a (frozen) lake at the edge of town the locals had set up yellow cones and were having ice races in jeeps and other 4x4's. Anyway, we soon left and headed towards Vail. Of course, because of all the snow in the mountains and it being a weekend Vail was packed full of people so we decided not to stay. We headed back to Golden, where we had dinner at Ali Baba's (excellent Middle Eastern food, always reminds me of Edgeware Road). Well today will likely be a similar style day, primarily enjoying the nice weather and exploring Denver. I imagine Don will do some school work also.

The past week has been good. We got a new announcement at work that the Mid-continent region will be headquartered out of Midland but still don’t know if that means we will have to move there. I hope not, but we will have to wait and see. Maybe I will be in a different area by then (since I am supposed to do 8-9 month rotations through different areas). My apartment in Houston is finally coming together. It has taken a while but I have made some major progress (like finally getting brass rubbings from 2002 put up). I will try to put some pictures in eventually, once I figure out how. Not much really exciting happening actually. I spend most of the day at work and then come home to relax before going to sleep and starting over again. Well, that’s all for now!