Well here I am, back in the Mighty Isa. Things sure do seem "normal" now. Very easy flight, although they may have let the work experience bloke do the landing.... Strange to get on a plane and everyone is pretty friendly and chatting. I knew a couple blokes from around camp. On the bus and out to camp. You get the option to go into town for a couple hours, do any shopping etc. Allows the blokes to buy things like favourite foods etc and keep them at camp. I didn't need anything so straight in, grabbed my room and unpacked. Was easy as I knew where to put everything to set it up like last time. I'm in a different room, right up the back of camp. It seems more run down than my last, haven't sat on the bed yet........ well I can safely report it doesn't squeak. Looking forward to that. Also I have a brand name TV (cough Samsung cough) which is slightly larger than my other one so maybe I can watch it this time.
I bought a new laptop whilst on break, really happy with it. It's a Toshiba Z830 Ultrabook. I'm really happy with it, its feather light, super fast and the screen and audio are fantastic. I have loaded it up with some movies/TV shows (all legal of course) and some music. And it certainly makes writing this that much easier. I also bought 3 books with me, picked up the new Jo Nesbo - Phantom (thoroughly enjoyed his last one, The Snow Leopard) and two Clive Cussler novels - The Jungle and Sahara. That said, with working (still makes me laugh) 12hr shifts, and not having days off this swing I probably wont have time to read/watch as much as last time. Still, better to be prepared than not.
I had a really good break, I thought a week wouldn't be long enough but I made the most of it and it was great. Really relaxing, plenty of time with my wife and friends. I spent more time with my wife doing things than we would normally have together in a month or so. Mainly as she works a lot of weekends (about the only time I didn't work in my last job) plus I wasn't getting home to see her at 6-7pm and out the door at 7 the following morning. Went to the beach, had a surf, did some work on the car, was fantastic really. Looking forward to the next time. Starting to realise I may only have one more chance to be home with her before the baby comes, and we are looking to move house. So much to do and time is disappearing so fast. I know the next two weeks here will fly by.
Anyway, other than that, not to much to report. Hopefully I can really get in and get my hands dirty (I mean that both figuratively and literally) this shift. I think I have a general understanding of the operations, now to really get in and nut it out, work it out from front to back then find something new to learn. Maybe even have a go at teaching some of these guys how we deal with wires in aircraft. Anyway, hopefully I can get some more interesting pictures and info to keep you all entertained. You just never know what your going to find out here.
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