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A Weekly Update

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Another week has flown by and january is pretty much finished - mental. I recieved my new snowboard this week also...check out the rockin' graphics - I had a few comments on the hill about how it looked!

This past week at work I have been working away on learning new things regarding Drill and Blast while at the same time creating a model of a massive rock cut we are to take.
Basically it will be used to help us plan the blasts and different cuts that need to be done. I worked Saturday morning to get some more of the model finished but I ended up out on site for 4 hours or so helping with the different blasts that they had that day.The model of Doodsons Corner (each styrofoam piece = 20m)

Sunday: Today myself, Brian and Joe headed up to Cypress Mountain (http://www.cypressmountain.com/index.asp) for a day of snowboarding. We got there at 9am and parked the car and were onto the slopes for the rest of the day. Compared to Symore last weekend there was so much more fresh snow/powder - especially when I ventured into the trees for some crazy "off trail" boarding. We were there at 9am to beat the rush but I everyone else had that idea also...we were in the main parking lot but were at the far end. Still, after we were all rigged up and ready to ride Brian gave Joe (first timer) some pointers and off we went. After it was all said and done we left the mountain around 4, and after the 20 min drive home I am sitting here updating my blog feeling pretty darn tired.
Rob & Brian at the foot of Cypress

Not sure what is on the menu for the week ahead apart from the Kiewit District Meeting which is being held Thursday and Friday of this week. It is a time when all employees from western canada (BC and Alberta) get together and discuss current projects as well as any workshops regarding company topics.
Until next post - catch ya on the flip side!

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Rockstars

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Since my last post I have since acquired a copy of our bands poster...enjoy.

-R

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2007 A new Year and a new Road Trip

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Salutations faithful readers...It's a new year and thus I figured that I should make the first post of the year. (as I have some 'stuff' to post).

First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all.

As my last post was back on November 27th in the year 2006 many of you might expect an update of events after that...suckers. It goes like this: work, home to New Brunswick, Vancouver for new years. Thats it!

Now we are into the new year. I had 2 days of work this last week, these were planning session days where everyone sits down in their respective specialities and then plan what needs to be accomplished within the next 6 months etc. Enough of the work - now onto the fun. Yesterday we decided we would head for a road trip to Seattle, Washington for the day. Attendees of this trip were:

1. myself (roadhammer: the wheelman center)
2. Brian (Gunner: the navigator right)
3. Joe (Joe Dirt: moral support left)
4. The Travelling Gnome

The main reason for the trip was for Brian to pick up a digital camera (bit cheaper than here in Canada) but we decided to make a day of it and check out the sights and tour the city. I liked Seattle - it had a good atmosphere, great mixture of old and new buildings and although it was game day (Lets Go SEAHAWKS) the traffic was decent.

Hitting the open road around 8am we picked up Joe and headed for the border. People I have spoken too told me to expect a 3-4 hour trip into Seattle...thats a whole lotta Tom Foolery. It took about 30 min to the border and then from there it was about 2 hours to downtown Seattle.

Space Needle rising above Seattle
Once into the city we decided to grab some food at a resteraunt right below the space needle. That was one good burger I had there - and out of the 3 of us I was the only one who could finish the feast. From there we decided to hit the mean streets, we purchased a monorail ticket (3 months in Vancouver I havent been on the sky train, yet 1 hour in Seattle and I was onto theirs) and made our way further downtown. The waitress at the resteraunt said we should check out the big market down on the water front, thus that was our destination. The Seattle Space Needle

The entrance to the monorail

On the otherside of the Yellow Line

The entrance to the public market - there was a tonne of things in their, mainly seafood.

After our venture into the market I wanted to see Elliott bay and Elliotts resteraunt, just because it has the same name as I do. Once we made our way down to the water front we looked to our left and saw QWest stadium (Seahawks Stadium - NFL Football) and wanted to check that out. As it was game day we knew their would be tailgate parties, however I had no idea how hardcore they were. Each stall had a truck and at the end of the bed was a tent and under the tent were 2-3 BBQs, TVs, Stereo Systems, beers and seahawk fans. To think , we were SO close to purchasing tickets for this game - it was a cracker too...Cowboys fumble a field goal attempt with 1 min to go to lose the match - uugh. Me outside of Elliott's Oyster House
Safeco Field - It is here that the Seattle Mariners play ball (MLB) Outside of QWest Field_1 Outside of QWest Field_2

Following the venture downtown to the stadiums we made our way back up through the older portion of the city and back to the space needle where we begun. At this needle there was a musem of music (EMP - Experience Music Project). Part of the tour was that we got to get up onto stage with all the instruments and sing/play a tune. "Brian and the Mean Street Band" rocked it out to Wild Thing. Brian the Gunner was on Lead Vocals and keyboard, the hammer was heading up guitar while Mr Joe Dirt rocked the drums. As part of the experience they took a picture of us on stage - unfortunately I dont have an electronic version of this poster. For those 3 minutes we were absolute rockstars.

After we had gotten out of the city and drove all the way home it was about 10pm when we got in. Planning for numerous other road trips within the near future might begin shortly, along with numerous sporting events aswell.

With a new year comes me saying that I am going to attempt to post more often, I say that but it doesn't always happen (I shall try though).
Until later, R

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