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After several days of not doing anything at work and not doing much after work, I got really really bored and decided it was time to go for a hike. Unfortunatly, this was exactly when the beautiful weather we'd been having ended. It had been pouring rain all night while I was at work, but when I started out it wasn't raining very hard. That changed about half way into the hike when it was just a torrential downpour. Jeans get really really heavy when they're soaked through. It was worth it though because I was getting crazy with so little to do.

February

I've been pretty bad lately about posting any updates on here. So, here we go.
The biggest thing to have happend since the last post is that I've decided to quit my job and go teach English in Taiwan this summer. I've been thinking about it for quite some time now, and I've finally decided it's time. I am really looking forward to being done with the job I've had for the past year, and really looking forward to going to Taiwan. It's going to be an awesome experience. I'm not sure how long I'm going for, I think I'll sign a short 3 or 4 month contract at first and see how it goes, but I'll probably in the end stay for like 8 months. No plans yet for when I get back, I'll be looking for another job, I'm not going back to mud logging. I may look into working in the mining industry. Not sure right now.
Aside from that, I've been working a lot this month. There's a company up in the Geysers looking to get a bunch of their old wells back into production so I've been living up in Cobb and "working" on them. They aren't drilling anything new really, all we're doing is cleaning out the old wells and testing them. All I have to do is test the steam to see how much Hydrogen Sulfide there is and pump chemicals to knock it out of the steam. Pretty much the easiest work you could imagine. One test a shift (only when there is actually steam coming out of the well) and making sure the pumps are set at the right rate. It's hardly work at all. And the well I'm on right now, we haven't had to do any of that yet and we've been here for like 5 or 6 days. We were just about to get through a plug in the well yesterday and they got stuck in the well, and are still stuck today. So it's another slow and boring night.
On the few days off I've had in between these relatively short wells I've been doing as much skiing as I can fit in. One day was by far the best skiing I've gotten in in the longest time. Deep powder, it was snowing like crazy while we were there. I had a great time. I'm starting to think I could use a lesson or two in this deep powder, I'm really not used to it having skied in NY so much. Sometimes I fall skiing out in the woods where no one would see me, and it can take a while to get up sometimes. I fell once and tried to stick my pole in the snow to get back up and it just disappeared into the deep powder. It's so much fun though being in such deep powder. I can't wait to get off of this job and back to some more skiing!
I have a ton of pictures to get up here, but I left my scanner back home in Kings Beach so it could be a while before any of them show up on here.
That's about it for now, not much happens up here in Cobb.