Slow Day

Bay City, Texas

Weather: low 55 degrees, high 75 degrees, clear skies - a beautiful day

We had our slowest day of the outage today as the project waits for other groups to perform work that is needed before we can finish up our part of the outage. The folks on nightshift should be busy, and we'll continue our drive to finish up. At the rate we're going, we have the potential for completing the outage 48 to 60 hours ahead of schedule. About half the people who were working on the project have finished their work and left the site. By the time I leave next week, there will only be a handful of people left to take care of the last of the paperwork and demobilize equipment.

While I was waiting for our work to resume again, I wrote up a list of things I wanted to get done before we leave here. The list has about 30 items on it, and ranges from things like cleaning up the truck and RV to going through our cabinets, closets, and basement to make sure we're not keeping stuff we don't need any more. Every time we do the exercise of looking through our things, we find stuff that makes us wonder why we're hanging on to it. In another five years, we should be pared down on stuff to where we're lean and mean. Just kidding on it taking five years. Actually, it's getting harder to find something we don't need.

Has anyone noticed that the older you get, the more you depend on lists to remember what you need to do? A lot of people make lists because they can't remember, but I don't have any problem remembering because I have a mind like a steel trap. The only problem is that it stays closed all the time. So, the lists help me get things done. I started this practice years ago because I was so busy at work, and I didn't want to miss anything. Carolyn doesn't like lists, but she admits that they do keep us focused on what we need to be doing.

Here's a blast from the past from our time in Oregon. Don't tell Carolyn she's in the blog.



This picture was taken on Harris State Park beach, during one of the two days that the weather was near 90 degrees during our time in Oregon. Those were probably the only two days we didn't wear a jacket while in Oregon.

More later, be safe.

Today's Town - Hastings, Florida: Potato Capital Of Florida

Not all who wander are lost.