If you want to switch to whatever type of sleep schedule your heart desires, then come stay on the slope during the summer. The whole 24 hours of light will set you on your crazy circadian rhythm cycle.

All is well up here, just drilling ahead and steering clear of the musk oxes and foxes I've seen alongside the road.

The BP guys up here are a bit nervous about the future of BP operations in the US due to this mess in the gulf. Wish I could say/knew more, but I don't. Service companies are the lowest of the low in the eyes of the operators (merely my opinion, please don't jump all over me for this statement).

The temperature around here hovers around freezing. Signs of the tundra thawing out emerge every hour, whether it be water fowl breaking through the ice to actually touch water to the rare grass sighting. I will take/load some pictures soon, once everything calms down a tad.

Peace, Love, and Oil.

Back to the slope and Alaska female fashion advice

Well, I'm back on the north slope again. It is officially in the season of 24 hour daylight, which isn't that bad. I have to wear a sleeping mask, like you would see in any terrible sitcom (name your decade, they are all bad).

I should head to a rig tomorrow, until then I'm doing a little work around the shop. That last statement mainly consists of me messing up or breaking tools and the shop guys fixing said screw-ups.


I didn't get to write about my fashion observations from Alaska, which next to Dubai is a fashion center.

Women should all wear tanktop like outfits, weigh more than 300 pounds (winter insulation), and have tatooed breasts. During my many excursions to the local Fred Meyer (similar to a Super Target or upscale Wal Mart), I noticed this was all the rage in Alaska. Women in the lower 48, take note.

Texas, Oklahoma, Alaska and a new apartment

Well hey there reader man/woman/child/sasquatch, hope all is well.

I'm sick of beginning these posts with me apologizing for taking so long to update this blog, so just assume that I am apologizing for being late before every post begins.

I've been busy traveling back from the UAE, moving into a new apartment in Anchorage, traveling to Texas and Oklahoma to see who I could, and then back to Anchorage to get ready for my next hitch on the North Slope.

I will say apartment shopping in this town is crazy, as it was most likely zoned by a drunk local. There are random trailer parks spread about the town, near elementary schools and higher end housing areas. We found a place, not near trailer parks or anything else for that matter.

I'm heading up to the slope tomorrow, I will take some pictures when I'm up there and post them.

Adios,

Russell