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Chronicle of the process of moving from USA to Mexico
Thursday, April 10, 2008
It's been a while since my last post. I live in LA now. Well, not really, but I spend more time in a hotel here than I do at home in Colorado. I typically get home late Friday night and since flights are frequently delayed, that often means 1:00am on Saturday morning. Typically, the following week I've been able to work at home on Monday and then set the alarm for 3:15am on Tuesday morning to be able to get the 7:00am Delta flight back to LAX. Sometimes I can get a later flight and this week I called in sick on Tuesday and pushed the travel to Wednesday morning.
The project that I am working on now involves installing security camera equipment on a bridge in the LA Harbor. My role now is more project management that actually doing installation work.
This morning I got up early and met the work crew at one end of the bridge where there is an elevator that goes up to a catwalk that goes underneath the bottom side of the bridge. A lengthy hike across the catwalk and a couple of ladder climbs gets you to the tower nearest the side you are approaching from.
I was advised not look down as you walk across the catwalks and stand on platforms since its a long way down and some of them are see though steel grating. A coworker told me that he has bad dreams about it. I made two trips up today. The second one was a lot easier (less scary) as I hauled tools and equipment across to the tower where we are working.
Fortunately I was wearing a hard hat when I whacked my head real good on one of the steel beams that you must duck to avoid. I didn't realize it until someone asked me later if I was OK that I was bleeding a little as result of having a small cut on the bridge of my nose.
The view is pretty spectacular but my photographs don't do justice to it.
The bridge creaks and moves and seems like a living organism when you're up there. One is also very aware of the traffic speeding by on the deck a few feet above your head.
One of the workers on the bridge had a close call today. He apparently wasn't looking down and a hatch to a descent ladder had been left open and not flagged. Without seeing it coming, he fell about 15 feet. Fortunately there was a platform on which he landed at the base of the ladder rather than going over the rail. After being down for several minutes he got up and made his way down on his own power. He looked pretty shook up but hopefully not seriously injured. I am guessing that he is pretty bruised up and sore tonight but it could easily had a lot worse outcome.
Lesson learned is that the don't look down advice must be reconsidered. For some reason I thought of my most favorite board game as a child:
My opportunities for work that I can do at home have dried up at least for the moment and so I guess I may need to be onsite here again on Monday morning this coming week.
Oh well. While this work is sometimes fun and interesting it can also be stressful and poses some risk for bodily injury. If I had a million dollars in the bank, I'm not sure I'd keep doing it.
Goodnight.
The project that I am working on now involves installing security camera equipment on a bridge in the LA Harbor. My role now is more project management that actually doing installation work.
This morning I got up early and met the work crew at one end of the bridge where there is an elevator that goes up to a catwalk that goes underneath the bottom side of the bridge. A lengthy hike across the catwalk and a couple of ladder climbs gets you to the tower nearest the side you are approaching from.
I was advised not look down as you walk across the catwalks and stand on platforms since its a long way down and some of them are see though steel grating. A coworker told me that he has bad dreams about it. I made two trips up today. The second one was a lot easier (less scary) as I hauled tools and equipment across to the tower where we are working.
Fortunately I was wearing a hard hat when I whacked my head real good on one of the steel beams that you must duck to avoid. I didn't realize it until someone asked me later if I was OK that I was bleeding a little as result of having a small cut on the bridge of my nose.
The view is pretty spectacular but my photographs don't do justice to it.
The bridge creaks and moves and seems like a living organism when you're up there. One is also very aware of the traffic speeding by on the deck a few feet above your head.
One of the workers on the bridge had a close call today. He apparently wasn't looking down and a hatch to a descent ladder had been left open and not flagged. Without seeing it coming, he fell about 15 feet. Fortunately there was a platform on which he landed at the base of the ladder rather than going over the rail. After being down for several minutes he got up and made his way down on his own power. He looked pretty shook up but hopefully not seriously injured. I am guessing that he is pretty bruised up and sore tonight but it could easily had a lot worse outcome.
Lesson learned is that the don't look down advice must be reconsidered. For some reason I thought of my most favorite board game as a child:
My opportunities for work that I can do at home have dried up at least for the moment and so I guess I may need to be onsite here again on Monday morning this coming week.
Oh well. While this work is sometimes fun and interesting it can also be stressful and poses some risk for bodily injury. If I had a million dollars in the bank, I'm not sure I'd keep doing it.
Goodnight.
