Good morning Montana, happy Friday!! Corey, do you have the day off?

 

Good morning Montana, TGIF!

And I brought a wrench to throw into the works, that will help, won't it?

 

Not slacker Cory

 

Morning Jim, Rob. Rob, give it a toss, and see what happens.....

 

You are the monkey with the wrench

Hey look, some bananas in the corner

 

Morning guys! Looks like it's gonna be a nice day here!

 

Morning! When are you moving to Sheridan? Used to live in Lander, not too far from there.

Oh, and can you do us a favor, and put your first name in your sig? Nice to know who your talkin' to!

 

Sorry Pat! It's there now.

Moving this summer. We have a foreign exchange student so we're staying committed to that until the end of the school year. I can't wait though. Sheridan is a cool place. We have some work near Lander. Also have a job in Thermopolis. Getting to see lots of Wyoming.

 

Josh, pleasure to meet you! It is beautiful down that way. I love that drive from Boysen resevior up to Thermopolis, through the canyon. I lived there back in the late 70's/early 80's, when I was in jr high. What kind of work do you do Josh?

 

Pleased to meet you too Pat!

I'm a corporate lackie for an underground petroleum company....is that vague enough for you!?!? I guess you could say that I'm the project engineer.

New Era Petroleum - Company focused on recovery of stranded oil from onshore mature fields.

And yes, the wind river canyon is awesome. I try to not miss a chance to take that drive.

What do you do Pat? That 67 project you got going on is great!

 

I work at a nuclear power station, just north of Omaha. There is a good chance you saw us on the new last summer, when we were an island during the Misouri river floods! I work on all of the portable radiation monitoring equipment, and the personnel contamination monitors.

Thanks for the comment Josh, the 67 is unfortunately on hold, since I don't have heat in the garage. I'm hoping the house we're looking at now works out, I'll have enough land to put up a shop, with heat!

 

A heated shop is a huge luxury. I've been wanting to build one for a long time. I hope you get your chance. Radiant floor heat....so nice. I can sleep on a heated slab! Some day.

I did see your plant on the news. And now I understand your handle! I've not worked around radiation before. I'm sure that's a different world!

 

It's a pretty interesting job. I used to be in the Instrumentation and Control Dept.. I spent a lot more time in the reactor containment building, when we were shut down for refueling outages, but now I rarely have to go in there. We're still shut down, due to all of the flood damage. Hopefully we'll be back online in April.

I'd love to have a shop with a radiant heat floor! I should look into that, but I'm sure it's pretty pricey. If nothing else, I do plan on putting a gas furnace in it.

 

It's not bad!! Just do the basics when you are pouring the floor. Get the tubing in the concrete and you can add the boiler/controls later. The tubing isn't expensive. Get the building up, and then when you go to add that furnace, you compare the cost of a 35-40,000 btu heater to the cost of the boiler/pumps/valves, you would be surprised! It's not that much different.

 

Cool, I'll look into that! I've already warned the wife that a building won't be cheap. But, having my cab in the garage of our house now has convinced her I need a shop!!LOL