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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
I crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears / I crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here — Woody Guthrie, Remember the Mountain Bed |
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Today was my major day of work here in Alaska, and I woke up at 0430hrs. It’s now 2100hrs and I’m just getting to the end of my day.
But today was a great day.
I stood on the Alaskan Tundra north of the arctic cirlcle wearing a parka and a hard hat, and stared into a 22 mph wind which made the temperature feel like it was -57 degrees.
There are a number of drilling rigs here — I can’t recall exactly how many, and I’m too tired to search for the information — and we headed out to CD4 where the chemical stabilization module is protected by Sapphire.
I, of course, forgot the most important rule of travelling with electronics, and particularly electronic devices that one is not familiar with: there are no points for being a hero — don’t push your battery.
It died, and we had to drive back to camp to grab the power supply through a fog of snow so thick the moon is the only clue which direction is up. Despite this, life is relatively normal up here. Planes landed and took off, and everybody went about their daily jobs because they are, in fact, their daily jobs. It’s just a different kind of normal.
It was after we had completed testing that I had a chance to just stand there, soaking in the space.
It was awesome.
Posted by skooter at 9:55 PM
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This entry is tagged: Alaska, Alpine, ConocoPhillips, Oil