One more trip to go!
I’ve been out here for 7 weeks now, and it’s about time to go home. 7 weeks at sea, working 16 to 20 hour days is pretty tiring!
We pull into San Carlos tomorrow, and with that it will be my last time this year. From here on out, it will be the same. The last time this year at one place or another. It’s interesting to think of it this way, but this is an interesting life I lead.
At this point I have pretty low moral, and drive, it’s funny, actually. When I first get to the boat, I attack every new job with a vengance. Even at this point I’m hungry to find projects to keep busy and make the ship better. Then as time goes by, theres less and less little projects done, and more and more of just getting from one task to the next. By week 6 I’m pretty much ready to go and just doing what is needed to get by. It’s not that I ever do a bad job, it’s just that the majority of the really good work I do is in the first 2-3 weeks.
Everyone is like this. It’s an interesting thing to watch, because every person that comes to work on the boat does it. It’s even better when you get people coming and going not all at the same time. This way, you are “fresh” while they are tired, then when you are tired, a new “fresh” batch comes in.
Anyways, I’ll be home in 11 days after a short stop in Utah to pick up Elijah. YAY!!!!
