You're bored.

I'm not really sure I have much to contribute right now. Just found out some other friends are pregnant. My goodness.

One of the medics at my winter projects seems pretty nice. The company man on my rig is trying to set me up with her. Apparently she would let me be her house husband, which would be fabulous. Becoming a house husband might be one of my ultimate goals in life. We'll see if I pull it off. To try and convince her of my house husband bonafides I just knit her some mittens. Not that I'm seriously interested, but it gave me something to work on the last few days. Not my best work, but they're not bad either. I should go deliver them to her right now.

She related an anecdote of life in the oil patch to us the other day that speaks to me a fair bit and relates back to our discussion of balance in life and not working too much all the time, etc. She said she'd heard from someone else out there that life in the oil patch is a lifestyle, not a life. That makes a lot of sense.

Got to watch a good bit of Olympic curling today whilst knitting. Knitting and curling is a good combo. Canadians made it to the gold medal games for both men and women.

Blarg.

So another day of no sleep. Almost 24 hours with just an hour or so. More to come.

But winter looked to be winding down, a bit early. A few days ago it looked like this was my last job - that I'd be heading out Tuesday, probably. Now there's an attempt being made to add a few holes to the site I'm at now, and if not I have another job for this company at a different location that I'll go to right away. And then another job for another company that was orignally supposed to get going March 1 but is looking more like March 10 right now. And I'll head south after that, probably.

So Team USA played Team Canada in Olympic hockey tonight. I don't much care about hockey, but since all the Canadians do I bet the company man I'm working with a case of beer on the game, in good natured fun. And Team USA prevailed!!! Gave all the guys out here a hard time about it. Obviously not going to be collecting/drinking my beer at work (no drugs or alcohol anywhere near here), but I'll enjoy it somewhere once I get out of here.

Cover blown.

I don't know what I'm posting this link here. But there you go. You win. But you hear that? Everyone's favorite anonymous blog commenter. Everyone's. And perhaps not so anonymous.

Farewell, Cali.

Well. Brief trip just about at an end. Leaving on an 8.30am flight back to the Great White North.

Nothing terribly exciting to report. Just got to see and hang out with a lot of friends, which had been my intention. Was very nice.

Got to eat some pretty decent Mexican food.

Helped one friend try to make a dent in cleaning up his completely repulsively filthy apartment. Not too much to say he's been living in squalor. With the pungent smell of the rat the he'll be incipiently feeding his boa constrictor. On the flip side of that, spent a night in the immaculate $1.1 million house some other friends just bought - no idea where the money for that came from.

Bought some other friends three-year-delinquent wedding gifts. Has been a monkey on my back this whole time. Glad I've got that taken care of. In turn I got to drink a lot of two-year-old apple-cherry cider they'd made. Apparently it was awful a few years ago, but some time in the bottle helped it along and it's actually quite tasty now. I had my fair share yesterday.

And got to spend a little time earlier today with another friend and her two young children. I'd had a crush on her back in the day, her being wonderful. But the kiddos were great.

Missed a few friends I would've liked to have seen, but so be it.

All in all, a good trip.