Current mood:

full

olympics and gas
Kathy is back today, so work is more or less back to normal.  Out of the blue this morning, i got "quizzed" by one of the buys, on my bosses request (hes in India this week).  The quiz meant i had to just be able to go to this website and pull up certain documents, so no big deal.  

I am loving the Olympics, i hardly even watch night time tv during the week but i am watching the games every night until bedtime.  It sucks that they are on so late though, cuz i always miss the last half hour.  That means i almost never see the final medal winners, but oh well.  I end up reading about it on the internet the next day anyway.  My fav. event so far is the snowboard cross, very exciting and more like a real race.  I didnt know it existed before a few days ago, but apparently its been around for a while.  It sucks what happened to the one USA girl who get silver... shows you what happens when people go showin off!  And that italian ice dancing couple having that stare-down on the ice after they fell... they didnt speak for 2 days!  haha.  glad they didnt win anything :-P

Speakin of internet, i have the picture of the day.  This one is also from Neill, i actually got it yesterday, but i had to save it for today's post.  The subject of this photo was also the subject of a Discovery Channel show a few days ago.  Just pretty darn cool.

Headline: the World's First Advanced Floating Gas Refinery (Snow White) shown in yesterday's episode of 'Kings of Construction' on the Discovery channel.

They described ......... it took 7 years from concept stage to engineering completion and further 2 years for construction. This giant refinery weighs 35,000 T and 100,000 T with the carrying vessel (Blue Marlin of Dockwise BV). Refinery was constructed in Spain and presently operating for one of the gas fields in Artic Circle. It processes the non associated gas collected through subsea piping network and transports the processed gas through subsea pipeline to the onshore facility. It seems there are 5 gas turbines to run this whole refinery

well work is pretty calm and i had a good lunch with pete at a japanese steakhouse, so i am feeling nice and full!