Sunday already, who would have guessed. Yet another week under the belt... I know I say it a lot, but I am convinced time travels faster in Australia.
Well, another interesting week at the mine, that makes for four out of the last five weeks I have been out there now. I shouldn't really complain, I don't mind it that much, and it's good for the income. And it could be worse, there is another fella who has been out there for around 7 weeks straight I think, so I'm sure he is popular with his wife.
After the fun we had with vehicles last week, this week was realitivly uneventful in comparison. If you don't count the glow plugs not functioning, the handbrake not working, and the radio intermittently losing power, that is. Not having glow plugs is interesting first thing in the morning, firstly it makes it rather difficult to start, and secondly, a cold non glowed diesel doesn't develop much power, and I had to use low range just to get out of our slightly sloped driveway.
However, at least the wheels didn't fall off. You may think I am joking, but it has happened in the past.
Some warm days out there this week, 37 on Wednesday, and 39 on Friday. Interestingly enough, I was cooking like a baked potato on Wed, but I thought Friday was quite acceptable. Strange how the human body works at times. Everyone I talk to keeps trying to tell me that this summer is going to be a warm one, so coming back to NZ around Christmas time might be a wise move. I suspect I am going to freeze, from what I hear.
This update is coming to you from a slightly different means this week, I finally crumbled to the pressure and purchased myself a new computer, to enable me to start to edit some of this HD video footage I have been slowly filming around the place. It is a little nicer to work on than my poor old laptop, far more screen area which is nice for a change. Not quite as big as the 42 I used to have in my room in NZ, but better than the laptop all the same.
Had some pretty long days this week, we are short staffed at the moment so everyone is running around trying to keep on top of the work streaming in. I pretty much ended up doing two days work in one day to try and get the job complete, and ended up missing the meal at the camp where I was staying. I went to town and nothing was open, so I ended up driving around 20 km to the next town to get some dinner. Luckily they still had some chips available, so that was the answer to the hunger problem.
We have a couple of guys lined up to take the pressure off a bit, one is starting to do the mine stuff as of next week I believe, and the other will come online at some point with a bit of luck. It might give me a chance to get some of the day to day stuff done that I have been unable to get any time to do.
To top it off, one of the jobs last week was to program some radios for a company, and it turned out my computers programming port decided to randomly stop working right at the same time as I needed it most. So I went for a plan B, which didn't work either, and in the end by about plan G I managed to get the radios programmed successfully. So that will be my first job come Monday... get my laptop working again.
Nothing else too major to report really, that I can think of off the top of my head anyhow. I'll attach a photo of a bird and a mirror... this bird's mother obviously hadn't taught him about mirrors, and he was constantly flying into it trying to play with his reflection. Every time I walked past this mirror over a period of three days, he was there. After the third day, he either gave up, or got eaten by a snake or a large grasshopper, but either way he was gone. I couldn't believe the amount of time he was there, every time I walked past and saw him it became more and more hilarious.
Right, I better go and carry on setting up this new calculator...
TTFN
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