October 16th update
The last few days have been interesting. I finished in Mammoth early this week and planned on driving as far as Tahoe the first day of my trip back to the Geysers. I've been having some problems with my clutch and worried about how far I'd actually get before it gives out entirely. I made it to Tahoe and that was about when it started sort of screeching at me, so I was shifting from like 1st to 3rd or skipping 1st and starting in 2nd and going to 4th. I spent the night in Tahoe with some friends and had a good time, kept my mind off work and my car. I left the next morning and drove the last 4 hours to Cobb. Between Truckee and Williams California I managed to not shift gears once, that's through a bunch of roadwork and switching highways from I-80 to I-5, not a single shift. I made it to Cobb that afternoon and was greeted by Pat, one of the other geologists I work with, and we found out about half an hour later that we were on standby. That means we can go off and do whatever we want for 3 days while getting paid half our regular rate. So the rest of that day was a right-off, and then the next day was spent sort of sitting around Cobb and making plans for our last day before working again. We decided we'd go deep-sea fishing out of Fort Bragg, CA which is about 3.5hrs from Cobb. No big deal because we had the whole day. We were about to leave to head to Fort Bragg on Saturday morning when the phone rang and we found out the fishing trip had been cancled because of anticipated 20ft swell. We figured we'd head out to the coast and drive up CA-1 anyway and do some sightseeing. It's a really nice drive and took us most of the day. Now it's Sunday and I'll be going in to work at noon. This is like the first time I'll be working the noon to midnight shift, should be a nice change of pace. Oh, and I'm dropping my car off tomorrow morning at some transmission shop in Lakeport to have to clutch fixed, I'm hoping it won't take too many days to fix!!
That's all for now, I'm planning on heading back to Portland in a week or so to pack up all my stuff and head down to Tahoe with my parents' help, looking forward to that!!
