trip prep...

Meryl and i have arrived in Denver after a long 16 hour drive from Whitefish. (Dont tell Meryl but she was pretty grouchy the whole drive. One word answers and whatnot for 16 hours...). We are excited to wear our down and insulated pants while attempting to climb Aconcagua. It may be as cold as -20 to -40 degrees F. Meryl said my butt looked big in my pants....now im self conscious, but i still love ice cream...8 days until departure...

Burnout Statistics

I am approaching my last day of work (tomorrow) and in the process of reviewing my last pay check I crunched a few #'s and came to these conclusions:

I worked a total of 542.6 overtime hours during 2009.
That's about 13.1 weeks of extra time worked, yep that's over 3 extra months of work in 1 year.

I don't feel so bad about taking a 6 month vacation anymore...

Most of our projects... or at least the ones that I work one are not in Missoula, thus I have done a lot of driving this year. I counted up my repeat locations to discover that I drove at least:
21,264mi just to mobilize to a from our work sites.

Pinedale, WY 6 round trips x 940mi = 5,640
Circle, MT 2 round trips x 934mi = 1,868
Soda Springs, ID 14 round trips x 834mi = 11,676
Butte, MT 2 round trips x 240mi = 480
Lincoln, MT 10+ round trips x 160mi = 1,600
Total= 21,264

Wowza! Needless to say podcasts have become my new best friends. I should have been listening to Spanish tapes, I would be fluent by now!




Time is counting down, 22 days until we leave.