Mommy and Daddy at work

I don't usually talk about work very much but for the sake of documenting our life in Pensacola I thought I'd update what we are up to. Above is a picture Matt took of me working at my desk. If anything the picture did motivate me to clean off my desk - well maybe not "clean" it but organize it better in color coded folders and refill my candy jar.

Below is a picture of Matt at work - well actually it's Wilson, his stand in when he's out of the office. One day when Matt was out, his coworkers created Wilson to fill in for him. He started out as a water jug and paper head. Overtime he's gotten arms, a name tag, a coffee mug, and even a hat from time to time. While our friend Wade would shake his head and say "And this is how I know I pay way too much for my power..." I would argue that you have to have a little fun - even if it means making up friends.

These days we are working on an SCR (Selectrive Catalytic Reduction). Basically it's an environmental project that reduces the nitrous oxides (NOx) in the flue gas. This gets our power plant in compliance with various government regulations. In my role I am the Mechanical and I&C (Instruments and Controls) Lead. That means I am responsible for the installation of all piping systems, rotating equipment, and instruments. The critical path portion of my work will be the installation of 2 ID (Induced Draft) Fans during the Spring Outage. We'll demo the old fans and install new, bigger fans in their place - all in the span of a 10 week outage. That's not very much time!

Matt is the Controls Specialist for the project. He works on the Admin side of the project handling contracts, writing purchasing reqs, project controls, and various reports. He's a jack-of-all trades. Our offices are in different trailers but we still stop by to say hi and go to lunch most days. There is usually a ROOK game going on during lunch so one or both of us might play a game if we stay in for lunch. As a whole the project is going well and is much less stressful than our last project, the FGD (Flue Gas Desulfurization - which removes sulfuric oxides or SOx). Overall it's an interesting job and a great group of people to work with.