A new hair cut & hot pot dinner!

My long hair


YUMMY!




I got a new hair cut... Austina and Wing put on a production and it turned out great... but they cut off about at least 8 inches of hair. They tried to get me to do some highlight... well they tried!

Just a quick update; Whitening and DAFing

Continuing to go DAFing this week. I gave a presentation last week about the path forward and training documentation. We had a mini shut on D3 to fix a broken flange and to mount additional paddles to 2nd rake. I like it. White top has been ok so far. The aged pulp/Clay combination presented a challenge to production. I am getting the hang of the white top though. This is like my 5th or 6th one now, 1 order in December before I call it a wrap for 2005.

Farm house lunch was interesting: visitors from Valliant. On call weekend for me, yeah!

Gotcha... heck I am confused too!

Feeling confused? Renee & Hunting? Yup, I went Elk hunting in this past weekend at Vida. More like Cruising in the wood in a truck in the rain, trying to search for that heart shaped white target in the sea of green.

As I was on call, I felt the urge to go to Fiddler’s Green to spend some hard-earned cash on some golf accessories. Afterwards, I decided to give Scott a call and see what he was up to. Drum rolls, please! ELK hunting, here we went. It was interesting, let's leave it at that.

Same night, I went to see Dave, the drummer with Dave, the bassist. Confused again? Mare Wakefield band was in town for a show. I know Dave, the band’s drummer, so I met Dave, the bassist of NERO at the bar to give out my support to Dave, the drummer. The last time when I saw him perform, he was playing with Love, Death and Agriculture in 2002?

Autoline is here. What should we do? DAFing has been going well. I like the process, now the problem is to make it better with no money for limitation improvement. Individual DAF Level Control Please! On a similar note, I was informed that my interns won’t be coming back in the winter and next summer because the funding of my proposed projects did not get approved. It was a pity and I was having a tough time to break the news to them.

Emily is coming home… She is a lucky doggy, traveling to Sequim, BC, Alberta. She even made it to Fort McMurray! Can you believe that? What’s next, HK? She probably will go to Calgary next Spring as my cousin is getting married. Coffee, where are you? Man I am confused! Can you come home now?

Speaking of the Maple leaf land, Michael is doing well, he is taking classes in welding and fabrication, maybe he can be a ME? And he is looking at buying his first home. He was visiting Nick, Lawrence and Ngai with my mom. Happy Thanksgiving to them! They also get to call grandma and wish her a great birthday. I thought that was awesome! Eric and I did the same! Pretty impressive.

Speaking of work, Prince Albert & Cosmopolis came to mind. They are facing difficult mill closures and I wish them well. Fred was my opportunity; Tram was my mentor at North Bend and good luck to Bob.

Medium ran well and we are still waiting for the feedback from the corrugators… Meanwhile… I am THE ONE, THE ONLY DAF person, the land/process of no man.

Time to take a deep breathe! Things can get stinky!

After an aggressive and vigorous preparation for the highly anticipated medium run, the medium was a successful qualified run. Since I got back from my trip to China, I have been working day and night to get the medium work done. After getting multiple planning meetings and crew meetings into the wee hours, the work is over and I have many binders and paper to show for it. The experience was a great one, not to mention, I got to work with my fave scientist again. Dwight. He is one smart man and I have learned things from him every time I talked to him. He gave me a copy of a computer model that can predict strength in STFI and Concora, geometric mean based on machine jet to wire: rushing or dragging. Ok, a pat on the shoulder to Horace and myself and PM3 folks, as well. We all worked hard together.

OK now, what’s next? Fiberline ops class is coming up. I definitely want to take that class on Friday to expand my horizons in the land of the cooking vessel.

Horace left for the corrugators last Friday and today, so I was liked the Lamby person.
Hambybond has been re-named to Lambybond. The medium run wasn’t too bad. Now with the completion of the medium run, ha-ha, no breather for me, I will dive right into DAF and white top and maybe some Autoline & wet strength. I have been assigned to look after the DAF process area. D3 just experienced a costly failure and needed a new person in charge. DAF stands for Dissolved Air Floatation. It’s cool if you can imagine that waste treatment facility use that principle all the time. But I am not scooping poop, I am doing fiber! LOL!

On the side note, I decided to do something with my social life, starting in early October, let see what will come out of it.

Coffee is still on my wish list, but I haven’t been able to make my way up to the Peninsula for obvious reason. I am swamped with work; never ending work. That’s terrible, and I need a new life.

Andy Lau is going to be in Vegas on x’mas eve, I want to go to that. But then, my budget for a piano or ski trips will be over…… decision!

Happy B to Mike & Grandma!

Happy B to Mike & Grandma!