Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Rainy Day
Today is a festival day here in India. It’s the first day of what I think is a multi-day celebration of sorts. Not like what we think of as a festival in the states but rather a more personal, spiritual time spent with families rather than partying with the masses. They are honoring their god Ganesh who also goes by many other names. You have probably seen figurines of the god with the Elephant head, that’s him. Of course, we are here at work so don’t get to enjoy the festivities, whatever they may be if any are public at all, taking place in Rajahmundry. There aren’t many workers here at site today so my guess is that they consider this a big deal. Earlier this afternoon it started raining and raining and raining. It is almost 5:30 here now and it’s still coming down steady and hard. Kinda reminds me of FL.
The job has been going back and forth with some really bad days, some bad days and a few good days here and there. Yesterday we completed the oil flush, which is a milestone of sorts for determining overall progress, but we also took a step back in the assembly of the Generator. Today we moved ahead, although slowly, with the assembly.
When walking through the PEECC (a major electronic controls compartment) yesterday, the power was off and I noticed a bad smell. I thought then that it reminded me of a dead rat or something similar but didn’t think about it again until Julia mentioned later that they had fried a rat in the compartment. Apparently they got power back, energized something and the rat was there and got electrocuted. We have one or two running around in the office here on occasion but they don’t come out much when we are around. This is such a lovely place to work. Honestly, this place is the absolute worst jobsite I’ve been on. I guess I have to accept the fact that all assignments are not going to be “perfect” or “working vacations”… Damn, sure hope my next assignment is better than this one. The company I work for is doing a lot of work in Asia, India and the Middle East right now so I may have to take more assignments like this. I’ll avoid them as best I can and definitely get more info before accepting an assignment like this in the future.
Ah, a bright spot in the day… Julia just informed me that we were invited back to Ramesh’s home for dinner tonight. His wife, Srivani, is a wonderful cook and hostess and I am now looking forward to a wonderful meal and spending a little time with our new friends.
The job has been going back and forth with some really bad days, some bad days and a few good days here and there. Yesterday we completed the oil flush, which is a milestone of sorts for determining overall progress, but we also took a step back in the assembly of the Generator. Today we moved ahead, although slowly, with the assembly.
When walking through the PEECC (a major electronic controls compartment) yesterday, the power was off and I noticed a bad smell. I thought then that it reminded me of a dead rat or something similar but didn’t think about it again until Julia mentioned later that they had fried a rat in the compartment. Apparently they got power back, energized something and the rat was there and got electrocuted. We have one or two running around in the office here on occasion but they don’t come out much when we are around. This is such a lovely place to work. Honestly, this place is the absolute worst jobsite I’ve been on. I guess I have to accept the fact that all assignments are not going to be “perfect” or “working vacations”… Damn, sure hope my next assignment is better than this one. The company I work for is doing a lot of work in Asia, India and the Middle East right now so I may have to take more assignments like this. I’ll avoid them as best I can and definitely get more info before accepting an assignment like this in the future.
Ah, a bright spot in the day… Julia just informed me that we were invited back to Ramesh’s home for dinner tonight. His wife, Srivani, is a wonderful cook and hostess and I am now looking forward to a wonderful meal and spending a little time with our new friends.
