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Pan fried cod with scrunchions for lunch yesterday and seared scallops for dinner, washed down with Quidi Vidi's finest malted bevvies.  The east coast certainly has some perqs.

One of which is NOT the fact that I am stuck in Goose Bay, Labrador again waiting for the weather to clear so I can get to site.  Of course this is always a bit of a conflict of the soul because not being at site means no fighting, no panic, no immediate stress right in my face.  OTOH being stuck here just means more day(s) stuck there on the back end, and more chance for stuff to go wrong while I am not there.  Ironically, the problem right now is that the weather is too WARM:  hovering right around freezing so the fog and mist won't clear, and because the landing strip at site is just a flat spot in the gravel and a windsock, they won't fly in.  If it were colder it would knock the mist down and clear everything out.

I'd like the warm to finish commissioning (starting up the first half involved -40 weather and winds so strong I could not keep my hard hat on my head no matter how hard I clamped it under my bulging occipit) so hopefully the temp will crater for long enough to get me off the ground and then mysteriously warm up again for the duration of my stay.

In any event I am here for a while.  Questions, comments, jokes, Christmas Cookie recipes all cheerfully encouraged.

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Plane to leave for Voisey Bay in about 35 minutes.  Unless it doesn't.  My hooks are all tentered!

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In the air for 10 minutes and they turned us around.  "Fog in de valley, folks, we're going back to Goose."

Then, they sent me all the way back to St Johns because the mine is technically on strike and if I go into goose bay to eat dinner I will probably be beaten as a scab (even though I am a contractor, any unfamiliar face is at risk).

So, 2.5 more hours on a plane and I am back in the warm embrace of the comfort inn airport st johns, which is the greatest comfort inn I have ever been in times a million.  Draft beer and a reasonable kitchen and a less than fully mediocre breakfast, and a friendly shuttle that runs at the oddest hours.