First Trip Back

We made our first trip back to Illinois.  After being in North Dakota for 2 months, we are back home for a 2 week holiday, to rest and recharge.

Pete can really use it.  He's been going for 9 weeks now.  The nice part for him, is that this should be the longest period of time he spends away from now on.  Barring some kind of weather catastrophe like a Blizzard, he should be going back after only 6 weeks now.

I had a somewhat busy week last week.  I took a trip up to Williston to poke my head in some places that I had applied and to apply some more places.  I still don't like it up there.  I did my best to stay away from downtown and Walmart once I did my initial visit.  It just didn't feel safe.  Too many people that were too pissed off in too small of a space.  I can confirm, though, that the rumors about the Walmart are true.  The place is very dirty, lines were epically long, and all the pallets of stuff were just sitting in the aisles, meaning 2 things; finding what you wanted became a scavenger hunt, and actually traversing the aisles was as adventure in and of itself.

I came back after about 30 hours so I could go to a Job Fair in Dickinson, but that ended up being a glorified resume drop.

Some good(ish) news did come that afternoon, though, as I got a call from MBI wanting me to do an interview over Skype, so tomorrow I have that.  The position they asked about was a Field Frac Operator.  Not completely sure what that job entails, but its 70+ hours at 17 bucks an hour with benefits.  I know I can do the job, its a matter of convincing the recruiters of that.

Oh, I get to sleep in a queen sized bed while I'm here.  I don't know what to do with all the space! I can spread out and sleep in luxury!

Yeah.  Its kinda sad.  But really funny.