Back at the SRR...

Things are pretty much the same as when I left :)

There has been a lot of rain, as evidenced by the large puddles of water everywhere. But yesterday and today have been very nice. Very warm, humid, by Alberta standards, and lots of sunshine. I checked into an outside trailer room for Monday night only, and moved inside to a fire warden room Tuesday. Two halls closer to work than my last two stays. I don't mind the walk, though, and I'm afraid being closer is going to weaken me, haha.

Speaking of weaken, I think all the Couch 2 5K walking/jogging I was doing has done very bad things to my knee :( I don't think I should be doing that anymore, which is sad, because I really did enjoy it! Pop my headphones on and I could go and go. I tried a bike today, and maybe an elliptical machine tomorrow, plus my studio exercises, and I guess it will make up for not jogging.

What a bunch of whiners at the desk today. We had several demanding room transfers because of  "faults" in their rooms. One guy had a loose toilet seat, molding coming off his wall, his desk was scratched so when he wrote it was uneven, and his cupboard drawer didn't open very well. Yeah, OK. I think it had more to do with the room being at the nether regions of the North wing, but still inside, mind you, than all it's "faults". Another guy could hear something scratching in the wall. And he couldn't get internet service. Of course, once we offered to send maintenance to check out the scratching in the wall, he said it really hadn't been that bad, and he'd get back to us. Once again, I think the complaints had more to do with being in the nether regions of North wing than anything else.

It keeps the job interesting! Speaking of interesting...one of my co-workers has gone home ill, and we are now short-staffed. I'll be working all kinds of interesting hours in the next week or two.

Had a wonderful time in Calgary on my days off, visiting with my daughter and helping shop for and set up the baby's room.

Oh, one more funny story. This camp is "boot free", meaning nobody is allowed to wear their workboots into the camp. They are to come in through the boot room, remove their boots and switch to shoes, or just remove their boots and carry them to their room if they want. Many guys elect to just leave their boots in the boot room. Every so often, housekeeping goes through and tags the boots, and if a pair of boots is still sitting there with a tag on after a few weeks, they remove them. They hold on to them for a week, then toss them out. Yesterday was a "remove the tagged boots" day. Today we had a call from security telling us that a guy had gone to them to say his boots had been stolen. (Housekeeping manager was able to rustle up his boots). The really funny part was the woman from Security saying that she sees some guys wearing their boots with the tags on them. Apparently, they never wondered why or noticed that their boots had tags on them for a week or so. I'm not sure about anyone else, but I think I might notice if someone tagged my boots or shoes! Some guys just need mom around to help them with everything :)