Living in the wild wild west
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:18 am
*Ugh....* I need a shower after doing my best Will Smith impression.
Anyways, how is everyone. A nice cheerio to all the old SYMers that remember me and a friendly hello to all of those that came after I disappeared.
I am currently residing 100 kilometres south of Pannawonica, a remote town located in North/West Western Australia. I'm working within an IT technical team, contracted by Rio Tinto, we're setting up the necessary infrastructure to communicate with the other mining centres and administrations in the cities both nationally and internationally. Aside from that, we are essentially building up a new city in the middle of nowhere. We have technicians from all fields, some Australians and others flown in from overseas especially for this. There is also a small army of labourers who work in some of the most difficult and challenging environments you can ever imagine.
Well anyways, thats what I'm doing now, currently one month into my 3 month contract, bored as hell. I'm sitting on the concrete floor of a vacant building, I swear there is a snake or a very long lizard exploring the other rooms. Since this room has access to an active phone line, installed by yours truly its been dubbed the 'internet room'. The 'internet room' has a milk crate and switch. You place your laptop on top of the crate, actually I think the milk crate and switch are the only things in this actual complex.
I'm going to go scare this reptillian away now, my snake phobia will make this interesting but I don't want it to start making a mess or worse destroy the switch and get me into trouble. I'm armed with an empty laptop case and water bottle
Anyways, how is everyone. A nice cheerio to all the old SYMers that remember me and a friendly hello to all of those that came after I disappeared.
I am currently residing 100 kilometres south of Pannawonica, a remote town located in North/West Western Australia. I'm working within an IT technical team, contracted by Rio Tinto, we're setting up the necessary infrastructure to communicate with the other mining centres and administrations in the cities both nationally and internationally. Aside from that, we are essentially building up a new city in the middle of nowhere. We have technicians from all fields, some Australians and others flown in from overseas especially for this. There is also a small army of labourers who work in some of the most difficult and challenging environments you can ever imagine.
Well anyways, thats what I'm doing now, currently one month into my 3 month contract, bored as hell. I'm sitting on the concrete floor of a vacant building, I swear there is a snake or a very long lizard exploring the other rooms. Since this room has access to an active phone line, installed by yours truly its been dubbed the 'internet room'. The 'internet room' has a milk crate and switch. You place your laptop on top of the crate, actually I think the milk crate and switch are the only things in this actual complex.
I'm going to go scare this reptillian away now, my snake phobia will make this interesting but I don't want it to start making a mess or worse destroy the switch and get me into trouble. I'm armed with an empty laptop case and water bottle