The Long Hours and a Trip onto Australia

well this last week has been a long one, we are working a 12.5 hour day and with an hour drive also means we have time to have a wash and eat and go directly to bed afterwards, The job is OK but I have trouble keeping my eyes open at many points during the day. But saturday night we had a bit of a blow out to celebrate the birthday of two of the young italian guys on the job, they had a pool party around the hotel pool, well it didn't start until 10pm, normally my bedtime, and they had bought in a mountain of beer and liquor and ordered about 20 large pizzas plus a few Kgs of chicken wings from the hotel restaurant. The music was too loud and it was a quiet affair for teh first hour and i was tired and really wanting to go to bed but i persevered and after a couple more beers the party was starting to feel a bit more entertaining, the young guys were swimming in the pool and throwing each other in, one guy was making cocktails all night long, we were eating and drinking and at midnight we were dancing like a bunch of silly boys, we had the latest dance music and some older stuff it was quite an eclectic mix, but the old scotsman who kept saying i will have just one more scotch before i go to bed, I ended up being the DJ and keeping the music going while the young'ens played in the pool with rubber rings and snorkels and the like, at 1pm and a real thirst going, i made a tactical decision to go to bed before i got really drunk and stayed with them in the pool, they eventually left at 4am, just in time to get 1 hours sleep and get ready for work which they all did, no-one missed work.

well I have been asked to go directly to Australia to carry out a small job in the large LNG plant in Karratha, a nice enough small town in the north of Western Australia, I decided to do it as it would mean i take a longer break afterwards, plus i get to go to Australia again of course, I love Oz, the sun the beer the wonderful hot and arid climate, we will see if it will all come off, but i will fly from here directly to Singapore and then onto Perth then karratha and with it I will retain my gold status on my Air France airmiles card, very important to keep that as it allows me to get in the business lounge for free beer and peanuts.