Party on!

I went to a work function tonight.. very fancy.... and I got to see JY from A-town and S-town... interesting...Horace even came to one of these social gathering...

Bye Bye Rooster.. here comes the DOGGIES!

New year of Doggie is coming on Jan. 29th...

Wanna go snowboarding before the end of the season, the snow is so nice. Tonight Adam & BoringFish will be seeing the Pacifica string quartet. They are from IL!

Janet is in town!

The week was a little hard to get by.. New year... gotta focus. (D is missing in action)

Friday, I went to E-town after work with A. It was an interesting evening with wine and dinner and cheese and many candles......

Saturday, it was pretty hectic, as we went to home depot to get stuff for PM; got a 32 ft ladder....Scott & Jenny were in town too... quite a fun night for all 3 of us...a lot of hidding from the cops....another good point was brough up though? Anyone wanna go to China with me? Will I ever find happiness with a partner? Mosquito, are you ready?

Sunday: It was fabulous to see Janet (A) again. It has been ages since our last encounter. She looks great & we chilled! I also gave Adam a tour at where I work days in and days out. I wonder what he thinks of the place? Dirty? stinky? Loud?

Work week 2 has been slow... trying to get back into my combat mode from the holidays. Polar angle trials and trips to Priciple office (PI) were nerve wrecking. Planning for the DAF outage was unsatisfying... again... one of those bad communication loop. In work life, I'm behind at work in so many level and eventually, I think process projects will keep me busy to where I won't be doing any foreman work this month. In home life, I am working toward my new year resolution, I think the outcome will be painful. It has been wonderful all along and I hate to imagine that in 6 months, my high will be at the bottom of a dump. I mean who can have it all? Is it too much to ask if I want it all?

I have been working with a ChE from Federal Way on this HB/profile/polar angle trial. He is a cool guy. Afterall, we are gonna mount the jet velocity scanner at the HB. Yeah! This week, I got to meet JY several times ....aiaiai! Parview is coming,

Squid & Whale

Work is hectic... what else is new?

Oh I met Stephanie and Finsen (new envirno interns)... both ChE.
People kept asking me if I am related to Finsen (we have the same last name.. small world... I guess our ancestors were somehow related..... millions year ago.. aren't we all?)

Saw Squid and whale the other night.. very disturbing family movie...

Happy 2006!

Gang's blog link is to the right.

Water falls....

Upper South Fall

A and Boringfish went hiking today. Yay Salem.

New Year Eve.

For New year eve, we had hotpot dinner at my place, it was quite a fun nite. The 4 of us were having a blast. Then, A came over, surprised me and got quite a reaction out of me. As we continued to celebrate the new year's eve with partying at Rosemary's, I got myself pretty drunk and poured wine all over me & the carpet. I confessed that definitely was a rare & special occasion.

For the new year day, I was cleaning up my place and doing some moving from my old place....finally..

Austina is back!

Today, I got to be a foreman without anyone around....Good feeling....
I went to Fred's farewell party, the last 20 mins of it. Saw Austina and Devon, both looked great.... probably will hang out with Austina & Gang for the new year...
I want a low-key celebration....I am tired and I need my peace and quiet.

He is back!

The holdiays were great, I got snowboarding gear and kitchen stuff that I don't care much.....Not much of a baker.

Christmas day!

Emily was playing with one of her presents.
I was happy to talk to Mikey.. he was so cute... he called.....what a GooD boY!
Richard called... Dave called....Happy Hannukah! Fiona called...Merry x'mas!
I had Ham, Bacon & Sausage! Interesting Christmas meal.........

Happy Birthday to Moquito!

Happy B! Mosquito

Hood trip

The view from the civic on the way up to Hood... so groovy...looks liked a fog hat.

Boringfish's backside from the top of the "Magic Mile" el. 7016' (east side).. it was pure thrill.. so magical.

Dave was getting ready for his magic run.

On the way down.

Magic Mile (west side).. the snow was soft... and I was the snow angel.

High fashion.....

I finally made it to the Hood before 2005 is history.... the rush was awesome...the nature was just plain beautiful and peaceful..hope you like the pictures.

Countdown: one more week to go till 2006!

Folks,

Work Week 52 is plain festive...Officialy work fiscal calender is over.

Mostly I was finishing up my 2005 PMP, my last white top run for 2005 and catching up with Horace before he left for vacation. A lot of last minute rushing...writing x'mas cards and holiday letters....4 day week is always rad, 2 more of those work weeks are on the way....

I have some projects in planning, hopefully, I will get them done. I will go to P-town and spend x' mas with the fam and it was nice to talk to the b-day gal. Go Mosquito!

I have been updating the blog... please go to the archive to check them out...I added a few things from March 05 on! Yeah baby.

Have a lovely Christmas everyone!
Have a peaceful, safe and great 2006!
Hope you all take the opportunity to hug a loved one, sit back, relax, and look at the sky today.

Boringfish

Santa, this is what I want.........not really!

Just for a thought!..A dorky biker chick.

Wing's B day Bash!

Freezing rain & snow in P-town!

Friday nite was fun!....
Saturday... cruz'g in the valley in search of W-Valley wineries with A... then P-town, jolly time!
Grandma: there is white ppl talking...why?
Boringfish: Yes granny.. I am having dinner in a restuarant.... I am ordering water...sorry
Sunday.... was wanting to go to Hood with Dave, then snow & freezing rain stopped me. It turned out not too bad cuz I just slept all day! Getting ready for another hectic week with process and foreman work....white top & PMP & DAFing are the bulk of it.. probably catching up with HH. 4 days week is always rad, no to mention free food from work all week long. Goodies from farmhouse and maint feast... JOY and fattening! 2 more work weeks... then the new year!

W-Valley Wineries

Friday... I finally will have a break!

The weather in C-town has been very chilly. ICY!

Things are on the upside again in my papermaker world. It turned out that the cull rolls that we made yesterday were salable for specific application. They will make coffee cup holder and box divider....

I finally feel great being a junior foreman..making contribution that impact production positively. They listened and excuted my ideas today...FGS, Sweet! Bill is fun to work with, he is so easy going. We had another incident with the polymer again this evening.. this time, the chemical froze! I think I handled the whole ordeal really well... at least I hope. I thinks foreman job is a piece of cake on a GOOD day. However, you never know when that is in a paper mill.

JK continued to be around... things are doing ok, I feel comfortable that I am being watched...This is just a heck of the week for a new guy to show up. We sure did hell to welcome him. Are we a bunch of fools? 36 hours boiler outage, 24 + hrs for PM2 and 12 hrs for PM3 & AFL downtime, contaminated condensate as filtrate in washer definitely was impressive.... black liquor pulp, pH 12 in HD6, foamy party in APM. I definitely put on lot of mileages to my feet, well my jaws dropped a lot too! The mill will need its healing time and get back to normality. White top could be a challenge.

Tonite was fun with A. I gonna miss him...or maybe NOT, if he won't call me from corn central... yeah... I am 'mafan'.
Weekend should be a blast.... no work......

Congru to Peter, he is getting married today, hurray!

FOAMy Bubble bath & SNOWING!

Just a quick log before I return to the world of paradise.

I showed up to work this morning to find that the mill was at a worser shape than it was as I left on my 14 hours day yesterday. It was liked we made pulp-snow in the mill. Everywhere, and (I mean it) was covered by FOAM... I soaped myself into the foam pool as there was my ONLY way to get into the machine building. AFL, PM3 were down already, then 6:10, PM2 went down as well....this is the worst week ever. we gonna make cull paper and be rid of all the bad stock all day long... no production at all! It all started from contaminated condensate.

JY made it to town yesterday, I finally got to introduce myself as we were trying to thread PM2 around 8. With the mill upset condition from the 2 weeks, it was a great way to impress your manager, and we all need to avoid the execution room and may as well start looking for employment somewhere else. So far, the impression from my peers was disappointing. Effective leadership is the concern!

W just announced permanent closure of 2 machines.... we need to reconsider our position in the organization.

It's snowing outside... Let's get a snapshot!.. Boy are we in trouble? Most outside equipment got frozen up! SF got a recordable injury because someone slipped and fell. Water on the ground turned to ice... we could skate out here! Clean up, clean up, clean up. The bugs in the pond are not doing so hot either, they have been swimming in pulp, foam and liquor!

Sweet hours!

It was another long day...14 hours...but I survived my first shut as a mini-F, I even completed my first lockbox at PM2 Quill Inspection & got a foreman lock key. (I probably will need to return that). We were losing steam and running out of stock, they have to shut AFL down for WL inventory, PM3 were making culls most of the afternoon (4 breaks)
The pic were taken outside the PM3 CR as I was on my way to Farmhouse lunch.... I was still in good spirit at that time. Barry was taking pics on the damage press ceramic shoe and he took a snapshot of me.... OH NO!