A few steps, things coming together

Been a little while since I wrote especially considering all the current goings on in my life. However I wanted to tell some people about things in person before they read them here.

Well we will start with the diet and nutrition portion of my life. Still going well. I have stuck religiously to plan A of the TNT plan. This does not mean I couldn't do things better, but I could most certainly do things worse. Everything I have eaten is approved on this plan and I have not strayed into processed carbs and starchy vegetable land. This puts us 20 days into the plan.

My home scale has shown more dramatic changes than the gym scale, this may be to me weighing after working out, consuming water etc. It is the same time of the day so you would think it may weight heavier but still show the same sort of weight move. Either way I am not concerned about my overall weight, I am really desiring to me leaner, more than anything.

The gym scale put me at about 217 or so last week and my home scale put me at 205 or so yesterday, but more importantly it registered the lowest bodyfat # I have ever seen it even consider for me. This combined with pants feeling a little looser makes me pretty happy.

The next large thing is a car. In a previous post I put up a picture of a car I was considering buying. Well it is officially mine. I can drive anywhere I want now. Not that I do a lot, but it is great for getting groceries and other errands on the weekends when transit out of here is horrible.

Lastly I went for an interview with Western Geco. They showed me around and I enjoyed myself. It rekindled my interest in what we were doing in school, it had been two months since I had looked at anything related to exploration. In the end they did not offer me a job and in all honesty I was crushed. I talked about this awhile ago, after I had come to terms with it, my words didn't really do the magnitude of my disappointment justice.

However that behind me I had another interview with Total E&P. A company I had frankly never heard of before. It was for an IT position not an exploration position. I was less enamoured with this job. I went to the interview anyhow. I have always been told you should do as many as possible to get used to it, so they are less intimidating.

I went to it. Total E&P may not be big in Canada, but they are it turns out a HUGE player elsewhere. They were founded in the middle east in 1924, and have just recently moved into Canada in 1999 to set up oil sands operations. They have plans to build their own upgraderer and have already outgrown two downtown office floors. They told me they had gone from 15 to 225 employees in the last few years. The position was essentially what I was already doing with a few important differences. 1) More money 2) Downtown office(I have always wanted to work downtown) 3) AWESOME downtown location above the Devonian gardens. 4) Relevant industry. Contacts made through this job will be 100 times more valuable than contacts made at SAIT. The kicker is that if I can't work at Total in the fall due to conflicts I am more than welcome to come back to the help desk at SAIT. Yes this means I was offered the job and I accepted. I start July 3rd and have a 2 month contract till the end of August.

So in the end life is pretty good and I will leave you with the Dalia FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading). Dalia FPSO is 300m long, 60m wide and 32m high. She is big.