Larry’s Log

Okay, I’ve been working in the pipeline industry for a week and a half now and the one thing that strikes me above anything else is that one engineering office is pretty much like the next. I’ve learned a few interesting things about the pipeline business but overall it’s just a pump pushing a liquid […]

My friend Cat is a pagan. I don’t understand the draw to that religion but then that should be expected because I’ve found my religion and I’m very comfortable with the relationship it affords me to my God. I don’t understand the draw to Islam or Hinduism either. I’m sure none of the practitioners of […]

Two job offers came in this morning about thirty minutes apart. I’ve spent the bulk of the day trying to talk myself out of the job I wanted to take and into the other job. Either I wasn’t playing devil’s advocate to the best of my abilities or the job I wanted is the right […]

Things have gone well with my job search. I’ve interviewed with three companies and it looks very much like I’ll get a job offer from two of them. It’s always nice to be in a position to decide which job would be the best.
The job search this time around has reaffirmed some things I’ve […]

This is why record profits by the oil companies isn’t something I’m perturbed about. The $100M is only a drop in the bucket compared to the loss of revenues. Somedays you get the gold mine other days you get the shaft.