Settling in

So we made the big move on Thursday night from the Athabasca Lodge to Poplar Point. I have posted some pictures of the new camp 'Poplar Point'. It has some major differences from the camp that I was at. The biggest as you can see is that we have to go outside to reach places such as the dining hall. But to me this is kind of an asset. It gives the whole place more of a community feel. All we need is a tornado and it will be just like living in a trailer park in Kansas.

All in all everything went relatively smooth. Of course there were some jerks who made the move more difficult for the rest of us. But I am sure that everything will come out in the wash.

The food is good here. They also have lots of activities such as baseball, pool tournaments, poker tournaments etc.

Update

The time has come to move out of Athabasca Lodge. The contract for the rooms held by PCL has ended. And the rooms are all booked by another company. So PCL is moving everyone that is here to another camp on site. We will be moving on Thursday to a camp called Poplar Point. It doesn't look as nice on the surface as this camp but I really will not be able to make a fair judgment until I spend a few days there.

Alot of the guys here are kicking up a huge fuss over this move. I find it a little bit ridiculous myself. As long as the company is following the collective agreement then there is nothing to go on about. I find that we are treated extremely well and live quite good out here. I guess the more you get the more you want, or so it would seem with some of the guys around here.

Oh, on another not my general foreman won one of those hospital house lotteries. Between the house and the lexus and whatever else there was it was worth $1.2 million. So he is taking a couple of days off.

I made it

Well I made it back to Alberta and have been hard at work ever since. It was difficult to leave the kids again. But I am accomplishing what I had set out to do. I am managing to shed myself of some fairly large debt. It is not easy working for nothing, but it sure feels good to get out from under some of the debt that I have accumulated. It will be even nicer when I get rid of it all and can start saving some money to rebuild myself a life. Until then I guess I just have to keep playing robot and keep my eyes set on the goal and forget that I am just a money machine.

Alberta Bound

The week has gone by rather quickly. You wonder on your way back how you will fill a week, as it seems like a long time. Then when you are getting ready to go again you realize that it is just the blink of an eye and you wish you could stay longer. I guess if I had a permanent residence it would help. It feels rather unsettling in my current state. But I am trying to make the best and the kids seemed to enjoy my time with them. I figured it would only be right to throw in a couple of
the pictures I took of them this week.

coming home...

Well I got my flight. I leave tonight. I will be landing in Hamilton tomorrow morning at 5:35 I will be home for one week. My flight leaves on the 19th at 6:15 am. I am sure the week will fly by.

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Yes, I know. I have not been posting very much lately. I guess I just have not really felt like it. I had to reinstall Windows on my laptop and I have been busy getting things sorted back out. So my huge hour or so of free time a night gets eaten up pretty quick.

Anyway they gave everyone at the job ipod nano's yesterday for breaking the 20,000,000 man hour mark. I would assume it is quite an expense to hand out 11,000 engraved ipods. I was a little shocked as I had no idea that they were doing it because PCL just gave out Sony mp3 players last week. And I hear that there is another safety award that we will be getting next week. Crazy isn't it? I still find this place a little unreal. It is hard to absorb the scope of it all here. And this is only one of many jobs like it going on around here.

I should be back in Ontario soon for a short 1 week visit. So if anyone wants to get together they should get a hold of me soon!