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What a day…

Arbeit / Work - 2 years ago - cheesy

It started right away in the morning. Yesterday evening I had the idea to park the company car in my garage – biiig mistake. This morning I didn’t find my way out and hit the garage wall. And my company is very strict on driving. So straight to the company to tell my boss. (BTW, it was the first day I had the car…)

After this morning stress the day went on along the same lines. At 10 Vechta called – I need to do a job at 8 p.m. in Vechta. So very quickly we find a flight Linz – Frankfurt – Bremen leaving at 3.

Jelena gives me a quick ride home and – of course – I forget my home keys on my desk. Jelena drives back to get them limiting my time for packing and having lunch to 45 minutes. But I manage to be right on time for my taxi – but my taxi isn’t… I wait one full hour until my taxi arrives and I’m really glad, that Jelena insisted on getting the taxi 2 hours early!

We manage it barely in time to get to the airport. I still have 45 minutes left so I still could check in … could check in – if my flight wasn’t cancelled.

Finally I get another flight Linz – Graz – Frankfurt – Bremen, starting at 5 p.m., landing in Bremen at 10:30. Only five and a half hours! To drive there takes eight!

After I make it to the wellsite at 11:30, the day is almost over and no more disasters happen!

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New Apartment

Arbeit / Fotos / Pix / Work - 2 years ago - cheesy

I got my new apartment, here the pictures (click on the pic):

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Candlelight Dinner published

Familie / Family / Feste / Freunde / Friends / Restaurant - 2 years ago - David Schmitt

Finally I got around uploading the pictures from the fabulous nine-course feast at my cousin’s. Enjoy your envy.

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New Apartment

Arbeit / Fotos / Pix / Work - 2 years ago - cheesy

I got a new apartment! Only 15 minutes from my workplace. The apartment is huge compared to Vechta – living room, dining room with kitchen, bathroom, toilet, bedroom and office area! Pictures will be posted on Sunday, when David and I take the SLR to Ennsdorf!

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First Workday

Arbeit / Fotos / Pix / Work - 2 years ago - cheesy

Today was my first working day in my new location. The base is tiny and my room is gigantic compared to Vechta. I share a nice large friendly office with Andreas. Unfortunately I haven’t met him today, but I met lots of other nice and cool colleagues! I think I’m gonna like it here! Here are some pics of my new office:

Büro

Büro

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Ennsdorf!

Arbeit / Work - 2 years ago - cheesy

I’m in Ennsdorf! Actually in St. Valentin in a hotel but that doesn’t matter. The sun is shining and it feels like springtime! After I packed my stuff (2.5 suitcases and 2 backpacks) this morning I left for Ennsdorf. Only two hours driving (plus a nice lunch at a Landzeit Restaurant along the highway) I reached Ennsdorf. The base is tiny but neat. I got a short base tour by Sandra so that I won’t get lost. I reached Ennsdorf at one (still lunch time) so I didn’t meet many people but maybe this helps me remembering all the names! My company notebook was waiting for me as well so that tomorrow at 8 I can start working right away. Only the language I have to learn (a)new…

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Sunday at my parents in law

Ausflug / Familie / Family - 2 years ago - David Schmitt

Good food, small walk. Good day.

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(Deutsch) Höllen iPod

Technik - 2 years ago - cheesy

Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.

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Hell of a Ride!

Arbeit / Ausflug / Fotos / Pix / Seasonal / ShortTrip / Work - 2 years ago - cheesy

All packed! Energize!

15 hours of driving! Todays trip from Vechta to Vienna was hell! At 8 a.m. we started in beautiful sunshine. We packed our car full to the roof and left the apartment. One suitcase and my Schlumberger bag didn’t fit, so I left’em with the other 25 boxes in my apartment for later transport.

Right after leaving we listened to the radio – 30 car accidents in Lower Saxony since it began to snow this night. Not far from Vechta in the first construction site we saw a police car. On the fast lane was a mercedes car looking the wrong direction. The barriers for the construction site looked like he used them to brake. Luckily the guy was still in the car and didn’t look like he was hurt or anything.

Further south we heard on the North Rhine-Westphalia radio station that they had 150 (!!!) accidents in NRW last night! Great! In Hesse it was not as bad – only (?) 60 car accidents, only one with two severely injured people. But we were lucky – not much traffic, dry roads and sunshine. We would have the possibility to stay overnight in Bavaria at Isi’s place but we decided to drive all teh way through.

The moment we came to Bavaria the chaos started! The first clouds and snowfall and – of course – a little hill. That was too much! Uphills we saw the flashes of a police car, but nothing on our side so far. But the moment we went downhill it started on our side! The lanes were icy, the snow quite heavy and on the right side in the ditch was a car every now and then. We slowly drove with around 50 km/h without further problems.

After the hill the roads were still icy, so we couldn’t (and wouldn’t) go fater than 70 km/h. While I’m driving quite alone on the highway, I see a blue van coming from an on-ramp on my right side onto the highway. As the road is empty anyways I stay on the very left lane. Suddenly I see some snow dusting up in front of the van and then the van’s turning once around itself coming directly towards us! I didn’t have enough time to think, I was afraid to break because of the ice, so I just tried to stay as much left as I could and don’t accelerate anymore. Both David and I were staring at the van, while his backside barely scraped by our car without touching us. In my rear view mirror I watched him stop perpendicular to the lanes. David saw the emergency telephone and told me to stop there. While he talked to the person on the other end, the blue van came down the road and stopped behind us. He lost his license plate but didn’t have any more problems. It was a armoured car for money transport, so the guys were armed. As they were fine we continued our way with a bit higher adrenaline rate in our blood.

In Bavaria it snowed half of the time and parts of the highways were closed because of trucks blocking the road. Finally we made it to Austria and the weather got better. But around Linz the real chaos started! Heavy snowfall made the road markings invisible and we couldn’t drive more than 50 km/h. Around Haag is a small hill. In sunshiny weather we wouldn’t even bother and wouldn’t really call this a hill, but today on the fresh snow it was a disaster! Cars with summer tires and trucks were blocking the right two lanes, while the cars with winter tires or snow chains were in stop and go mode. But accelerating was not as easy! We saw cars with spinning wheels while the cars themselves were not going forward but backwards.

Nothing goes!

Snowy car

Some people put snow chains on their cars others pushed their cars. After the hill the traffic got better soon and after Ybbs the snow stopped falling. The final kilometers we were tired but happy to be home soon and happy that we could drive normally. In Klosterneuburg we had to unload our car before going to bed. What a day!

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Goodbye Germany, Welcome Austria!

Arbeit / Work - 2 years ago - cheesy

My last days in Vechta! I can’t believe it! Today I stopped by in the base to leave my business cards – wine bottles with my phone number on. I realized that I’m gonna miss my colleagues a lot… The whole afternoon David and I spent packing. Now it’s impossible to go to the balcony cause the boxes are blocking the door. Only stuff I want to take to Vienna is still left. Tomorrow David and I will go to the CeBIT in Hannover, Friday evening will be my goodbye party and on Saturday I’ll drive home! Finally!

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