Salt Lake City, UT – 1425hrs

Well, I woke up this morning in a different city AND state from when I went to bed… a COMPLETELY different turrain!  That was wierd!!

When I bedded down last night (rolling down the road… we were in the hills of Wyoming which rocked me to sleep quite nicely!  When I woke up this morning….I was in a frigging bowl!!  Surrounded on three sides by steep mountains and the lake itself!  (See images below)

Wanted to share with you a funny story from Wednesday morning… the morning I tested;

Charles had said Tuesday night that we needed to be out there at 0630 with the truck setup (hooked-up) and ready to test, so we got up at 0530… staggered into the terminal and grabbed a shower.

Now, of course I got the only shower with two temperature settings on the water… scalding and third-degree burns… so it was duck under, get wet, jump to the side and soap up… jump under for a second or two to rinse some… repeat as needed until clean.

So… by the time I got with my shower, it was ten past 6!!  Okay… mad rush to get dressed, shaved etc… got downstairs to the cafe area where I find Charles casually eating eggs!!  I man it’s friggin 0620 and it’s a five minute walk out to the training pad!!  Come on man!!  We’ve gotta go!!  So I said to him (and I quote)… “Meet you out there”

So…out to the truck I trudge to have a sip of coffee and a smoke before we have to check in with the testers

I’m out there a couple of minutes when he calls me on the cell phone… says “Where are you!?!?”  I tell him, “I’m in the truck!”

He says… “You have four minutes to get inside the building!”

FUCK!!

So I hoof it to the building across the HUGE training pad towards the terminal… then it dawns on me;  call him back and say “EXACTLY where in the building do I need to be?!?”

He says he’ll meet me at the door…

I get there…and we start figuring out where our communication issue came up…

See apparently he forgot to tell me… or I missed the fact that we needed to be in the SAFETY DEPARTMENT down in the basement AT 0630 to sign in… when I said “Meet you OUT there”… he heard; “Meet you DOWN there” meaning down in Safety!!!

We laughed our asses off about that one for a bit… as most all of you know… I tend to get…”frustrated” when under stress… and I was WAY stressed that morning!

In the end it all worked out and we made it on time… and I passed my test (obviously!) and now we’re doing the team portion!  It’s all good!

EDIT:  Forgot to add the pics!