Lazy Bum @ the moment, No Longer!

The chronicles of my job search and unemployment will now be on a 4 month hiatus. My occupation now at the moment is no longer unemployed, but a pending student, well not pending since I got into the program, so I guess student in waiting.

Haaa Haa! Take that Cuddle Puppy! I've managed to postponed your whole notion of

"being a young person with no idea what he will do with his life to a young person who maybe should figure out what to do with his life."

by delaying my entrance into the real world by not getting a hair cut and a real job. Then I'll be a year and a half from being a 26 year old that should have figured out what to do when he was 24.

"Just be glad that you're not 26. That's the "Person who should have figured out what to do with his or her life when he or she was 24"."

So anyways the program that I'm going into is a pilot program for MWD Technician Training. I figure it's the training that I probably would have gotten if I got hire by a drilling company or the company that is sponsoring the program, except that I would have been paid.

But the advantage is that I get certifications and safety training and can probably choose which company I want to work for instead of applying to all of them and hoping one them calls back, which they never do. Plus everything is paid for by industry, the instruction, the textbooks, the equipment, and the field trips to the training rig sites. The catch is that I'm liable for $5000 if I don't show up to 80% of the classes or if I finish the program with less then 60% for a final mark. So I guess that means I can't phone it in or at least that I shouldn't, unlike other classes.

Your probably wondering what MWD stands for. Morons With Dorks, Manage While Dangerous? Cuddle Puppy has probably thought of multiple acronyms by now, but it stands for Measurement While Drilling. An MWD Technician is the person that directs the drill bit used in drilling for oil or gas. Apparently all the easy "dig a hole straight into the ground" oil is gone. So the oil that is left, is the type where they cannot dig straight down due to environmental reasons. Also due to environmental reasons, the rigs will need to have multi-directional drilling lines. That way more then one deposit can be reached using one rig. So as said earlier the MWD tech tells the drillers where the drill bit is and where the line needs to be to get to the deposit. So that's what I'll be learning to do. Or so I'm told. Hopefully the industry won't become wise to Mr. Burns' idea of a slant drilling company, cause if they do then I'm screwed.

Thanks all of those I used as references. Way to lie guys, there's probably a special place in hell for each of you. And thanks to everyone else, you'll be stuck in an unspecial place in hell. Too bad.

And on a sad note, John Fiedler, a stage and screen actor who won fame as the voice of Piglet in Walt Disney's Winnie-the-Pooh films, died from cancer, according to his brother. He was 80.

Fiedler died Saturday in New York, a day after the death of Paul Winchell, 82, who created the lispy voice of Pooh's animated friend Tigger.

John Fiedler's stage credits included Broadway productions of A Raisin in the Sun with Sidney Poitier.

He landed character parts in movies, including True Grit, and played roles on TV, including Star Trek .

But he became famous for the squeaky voice of ever-worrying Piglet.

Fiedler voiced Piglet most recently in 2005's Pooh's Heffalump Movie. Fiedler grew up in the Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood, graduating from high school there. He served in the navy in the Second World War, after which he went to New York.

Taken from Winnipeg Free Press, June 29, 2005

This keeps proving a theory that I read or heard somewhere that famous people always die in pairs. But it makes me wonder who died with the tony the tiger voice, maybe Toucan Sam?

And in other news:
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thai fishermen caught a catfish weighing 293 kilograms - 646 pounds - which is believed to be the world's largest freshwater fish ever recorded, a researcher said Thursday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050630/ca_pr_on_od/
oddity_big_catfish/nc:2390

Check out the link for the full article and picture.