This week, I have to be on location at one of the processing plants my company designs, builds, owns, and operates. I’m sitting in the lounge-bar area, talking to some friends on IRC, reading the news, and sipping on a… Read More ›
Work and Jobs
On Being “One of the Guys”
Shortly after I started my current position, our primary business partner set up a couple of bird-hunting trips on back-to-back weekends. I work in the energy business, and I’m one of VERY few women that do so, with an even… Read More ›
Broken Coffee Pots and other Major Life Disasters
[pointless rant] Although I drink a bit of coffee every day, I only use my coffeemaker on weekends. My Saturday and Sunday mornings are usually making a pot of coffee, sitting at my desk and chatting with friends via IRC… Read More ›
A Dickens of a good read!
One of my favorite books is “One Pair of Hands” by Monica Dickens. Written in 1937, the book chronicles her adventures as a “cook-general” during the last years before WWII. The inside joke of the book is that Monica (you… Read More ›
Who Are Your Lifesavers?
All through life, we have people who help us. Being social, tribal creatures, living in a complex dangerous world, most of us cannot be 100% self-sufficient. We all have lifesavers. As a child, your lifesavers are your parental unit. Beyond… Read More ›
A Ghost Town that’s Not Quite Dead: Crappy Places to Be From
Barstow, Texas is a town in West Texas, not far from the corner where New Mexico juts into the Permian Basin. The census sign at the city edge, from 2000, claims that there are 400 people living there, but I… Read More ›
Gas Station Tacos – Fine Dining in the Oil Field
My job sometimes requires me to travel into small, remote towns, where there are not many stores or restaurants, but there may be a very large number of people working because of the boom in industry that’s going on. Work… Read More ›
She’s so picky she’s probably waiting for a man with a “Warp Drive” zipper…
(Note: I had nothing to do with this blog post. -GG) The incredibly lovely and intelligent woman I share this blog with, Geek Goddess, is single. She doesn’t mind, she has a very busy and successful career. She goes on… Read More ›
Wings ‘n Things: A Passenger’s View to General Aviation Flying
This is a story about planes. Private planes, small planes. I’m not a pilot. I’m not planning on becoming a pilot. At my core, I’m engineer and a science fangirl, and I love to constantly learn new things. I like… Read More ›
Loving County Part 1 – Crappy Places to Be From
Loving County, Texas is the least populated county in the lower 48 states. Located in western Texas, near the point where the southeastern corner of New Mexico juts into the Lone Star State, it’s a vast, flat prairie of grasslands… Read More ›
Two Different Girls 