finalward

[laleesh]

the thunder
in its barest tone
announces on its megast phone

it's done this storm
now dance

like no one's looking.

[mike poet]

Reminds me of a moment on a offshore platform when I was with Supiorior wireline. I must of counted 8 waterspout all around us. Lots of wind that day.

[laleesh]

yuh, mike; our festivals internationale was pre-empted by a fierce storm yesterday. but thor gave clearance to carry on and night downtown was awesome


after all,
:)
lala


p.s. offshore? on an oil rig? sounds like one of your famous sentences; were you being punished again? :)

[mike poet]

Our Seafood business does not pay much unless you own it so I have worked all over the place till Crawfish season kicks off and I get to get big from it, otherwise I would never work these hours for the money it pays even as the owners son. I do not do well offshore and I meant on a production platform not a drilling rig. That job was wire line and deckhand on a Jack up barge, depending on where I was needed. I got pretty fat at time from the best food you will ever eat which is what they feed offshore workers on the platforms, I mean my God at the incredible food they feed you. I just cannot handle being around 30 males in closed in quarters, cannot handle the ribbing and sarcasm of the foremen. How do I tell this story proper? Hum...Ok my boss went down to a lower deck to turn the main valve while we were taking paraffin wax out of a well. I started to follow him and he asked where I was going. I said to watch you and see what the main valve is so I can turn it next time. He sad go sit your fat ass down and eat something. Well I am going to say something back. I hve deleted what I said to him because it was not proper to be on this forum.
But yes I've worked on Drilling rigs and production platforms as well as Coil Tubing and Wireline, also Jack up barges.

[Poeticpiers]

I am the lord of the dance says he

[laleesh]

mike, where i was coming from was i work in a hospital and through my life I have seen some gruesome stuff helicoptered in from offshore! though I wouldn't wish that employment on my worst enemy simply because of the danger of it, I have to admit, I was always fascinated by the tales of the offshore workers, much like yours here. each person's job was like a tiny piece of a great big puzzle and I adored putting the pieces together to get a complete picture of the entire fascinating process of oil production. these men, and women, are much like war veterans telling each their different tale.

and ivor, the rain stopped and the zydeco kicked in! all we needed was that drum roll!



:)
la lala

[mike poet]

I cannot tell most of my offshore sories because poet that I am, they would be TOS violations.:D I erased the story I told here. I do not like rules and follow my own except anything to do with AC, here I love enough to do like I'm sposed to.
Helicopters are cool and we have to take water survival courses which is a trip to be straped in a pvc thing and they flip it upside down, then you have to undo your seat belt while holding breath and everything is backwards cause you are upside down under water holding your breath and swim out of it. It's worth it if I could handle being around these fellas, but alas as good a job as they are in the drilling or Coil Tubing and Wireline I should specificly stay in fabrication. I most likely could keep a job like that cause those boys are rough. Crawfish season is nearly over and after I get out of rehab I will do something.

This festival you refer to in this thread was it around about 15 years ago? I think it's one I went to in a park by the airport going into a city about 20 miles from my house by an airport. lol I got in trouble at that one.

[Yalith]

Laleesh, this is beautiful, just like all your work.

[laleesh]

dear yalith, this is the nicest thing i've been told in a while! you have touched me at a good time, girl!!


:) :) :)
laleesh

[naturalist]

that's right!! nice laleesh, always a pleasure. :) you sure know how to pack a punch!

[Territorial Hawk]

:cool: Wicked.

[wandelaar]

Short but sweet! A storm can do that to you.

[tanto]

a good way to be laleesh. a pleasure to read your work, lovely.