Mike Hagerty's Photo of the Day

I'm going to start with a photo of the day to get myself motivated to keep posting. I tend to set these kind of goals for myself, do it for about a week or two, find a good reason not to do it one day, then use the same reason for the next several months until I get back to it. Hopefully that won't happen...but it probably will. The layout right now really is quite horrible and I realize the title appears at the top twice, but until I figure out how I want it to look, it probably won't change. Enjoy...

Sunday, July 20, 2008

The Twentieth of July

Ok, here we go. First post. I came up with the idea to try a photo of the day to give people a better idea of what my life is like here in Rayong on a daily basis. I've posted pictures from trips to islands and up to Pattaya or out in Rayong (which can be viewed at http://picasaweb.google.com/jmhagerty) but not much about the people I work with and the things I do on a daily basis. So I planned on taking a picture each day to post. And today I did just that. But when I got back to my room, I couldn't find my cord to download the picture. So I'm already breaking one of my goals of each picture being taken the day it is posted.



I wanted to start with a picture from work because that is where I spend the majority of my time here in Thailand. This first picture is from one of our vessel inspections back in April probably. The guy to the left, Teerapong, is a process engineer and on the right, Narin, is a board operator. Narin started sending me emails to my UOP address filled with (update: non-pornographic) pictures of Thai girls. Although the effort was appreciated, I have a feeling Honeywell wouldn't appreciate it. And although it may look like it, I'm not about to jump out of a plane.

I had to work today because we started a new shift schedule this past week. It was rainy and gray this morning that felt like a spring day in New York. It felt nice. We got the steam ejectors working this weekend and started boil out of some separation columns today. Between all of that I booked a hostel room in Beijing in August, once I find out more information on visas this week I'm going to book a flight. I'm quite beyond excited.

Check back tomorrow for something new.

Update - I found my camera cord so I'm now in business. Here's the picture I intended to put up yesterday:



This picture shows a part of the plant I'm helping to startup. The large columns with all the white lights on them are what we were working on yesterday. This section separates all of the different molecules produced in upstream equipment into a product stream of Phenol that is 99.95% pure. If everything else goes as it should (and it won't), this section will be the toughest part to get to work once we get started
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2 comments:

Angela said...

Daily picture blog huh-sounds familiar LOL (fyi-in the blog world thats called a 365 project) Hope its ok but I linked your blog to my blogs. If you don't want me to let me know and I will take it off. (http://globetrotterdailyphotos.blogspot.com/)
(http://roadwife.blogspot.com/) And if you need help with your layout/setting/widgets let me know-it have some free time on my hands and help many people with theirs!
Have fun blogging!
Angela (roadwife)

July 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Unknown said...

I think this post would be better if it was titled "The Twentieth of July: 4 Days Before Maura's Birthday"

July 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM

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