Looks like the end is near for this trip to Fort McMurray, work is now almost complete on the UE1 project and Ill soon be coming home for the winter. ( Les is HAPPY that I am finally getting ready to come home)May have one week or up to the 15th of Dec up here. I really don't like it cold up here it is a lot different then home. Monday I went to get the bus and it was -24 and the windchill was -31 that is a cold day to work outside. I can't wait to get home to see everyone and spend the winter at home, not up here in a camp and nothing to do but sit and wait for time to go and go back to work. It was nice here today comparied to Monday it was +6 and rain in the moring and sunny in the afternoon.
Gotta go and eat supper ( more great food but that is another post soon lol )

Mike

After 4 really long days and nights in this camp I am going back to work about time lol. Working up here has it ups and downs, it is like a small city with the traffic and people running around the plant, but there is one main difference in a real city there are not alot of things that everyone works around that could kill you in 30 sec or less. The plant is live and there is alot of sour gas, H2S and other deadly gases that are around you all day long. When that H2S alarm goes off you better check to see where it is coming from and also to see which way the wind is blowing and then move your ass. (When in Dought get the fuck out) that is what I was told almost everyday about working there. They have a great fire crew there and it is not good when you start to see more then one truck leave that hall when you are on the pipe rack that they are going to lol. All in All it is not a bad place to work, just think about work and not think what is here today that could kill me or someone else. ( No one has died in that plant so that is a good thing to know)

Later Mike

I am still in Fort McMurray, everything is going fine here work is going good I am learning a few things that I did not know before. I had the change to vist the other oil plant up here last week (Suncore, which was the first in the world for oil sands) it is not as clean as syncrude ( the largest in the world) the people are nice and are not ones to turn away from providing you with the help you need to do the job right. The camp is not to bad it is not the best one up here ( there are 6 camps) but it is what you make of it. when I first got here there was 16000 people working on the UE1 project and now that it is getting complete the man power is getting lower everyday. I have no idea when I am going to be getting my walking papers lol.
That is all for now, I know I don't write in this enough but I'll try to write a bit more.