"I had worked very hard all day Saturday, and more than I wanted on Sunday to build the Dynamic Measurement TWiki pages to a state I could use them in a presentation for Jeff Jurinak at 11:00 Monday morning. These pages are behind a password, and it is not appropriate for me to be specific about them in a semi-public forum like these Thoughtlets. It was a lot of work, involving posting 85 e-mail messages and several related or attached photos and maps and documents, as well as 8 presentations, with 65, 91, 36, 141, 218, 40, 26, and 51 slides in them respectively. As Jeff quickly assessed, this project has "the focus of all of (my) hormones." It has taken a long time for me to be willing to tell anyone who has not signed our confidentiality agreements about Dynamic Measurement LLC and our main business focus. In Jeff's previous position as ConocPhillips Chief Reservoir Engineer, it would have put him in a direct conflict of interest to describe a new exploration process. However, since he is no longer in that position, and is going to be heading up a research group, basically a private university, in Abu Dhabi, he needs to know about advanced research opportunities. And there is no question in my mind about his ability to keep confidences.
I was up early, and did not exercise again, to finish getting ready for the meeting. I felt I was in reasonable shape by the time Jim Siebert arrived, at about 10:30. There was quite a bit to catch up with Jim. Then Joe Roberts arrived about 10:45, and the conversation took a different turn. Les Denham and Jeff arrived at about 10:55. Jeff must have been up most of the night. He drank a couple of glasses of juice, ate a lot of chocolate, and still fell asleep as I was talking to him. Wulf Massell had a conflict, and was able to join us about 11:45. The meeting lasted until 1:10 PM. The key folks to follow-up with at ConocoPhillips are Greg Leivelle, the Exploration Manager, and Ken Tudman, the Technology Manager. However, there is some patent and IP protection work we must do before contacting these people. I was surprised at how quick Jeff determined it did not make sense for him to do a research project in Abu Dhabi. I was pleased at how viable he thinks the things Dynamic Measurement is doing are. And it was interesting how interested he is in the Dynamic NetWork (see http://dynamic.walden3d.com/NetWork), and expect that I will find myself in Abu Dhabi within the next couple of months to start working with him and ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) on some of the technology ideas I have been developing for several years.
After Jeff left, the rest of us talked about the discussions for a while. Les helped me find some data on the Landmark system I could not find. As Les left, and Wulf said it was interesting how we had cars parked all over the neighborhood, he turned to Wulf and said, "It's safer not to park in the driveway." This was in response to Andrea backing into him last Wednesday when he was here working on getting the last of the Klutts data loaded on the Landmark workstation. When everyone left, I was worn out, and took a nap. I'm getting too old to put so much energy into a simple meeting.
Andrea and I made first use of our Cinemark Christmas present from Melanie and Jared and went to see "Doubt" with Meryl Streep. It made me think, which I consider good. However, if you boil the theme of the move down to it's basic components, they are (1) exploiting public opinion against the Catholic Church and Priests who sexually abused young boys; and (2) creating "doubt" about the wrongness of homosexuality and "natural tendencies" towards these activities. I left the movie with a disgusting taste in my mouth, sort of like "Cider House Rules" and it's backwards promotion of abortion (see ../0004.html). The way Hollywood manipulates, or hopefully it is just an attempt to manipulate, liberal anti-biblical social issues really bothers me. If I ever have a lot of money, I am going to use some of that money to expose this type of baloney for what it is.
On Tuesday I took the Landmark workstation back into Layton Energy, and spent the day there. There was suppose to be some meetings, and I did not make any notes as to whether they happened or not, my notes just say that I spent from 9:30-5:30 working with Don Vossler's summary of opportunities on the Klutts lease in Louisiana. I really got into this work. The prospect is very exciting, and the opportunities are very large.
Wednesday morning, the last day of 2008, I woke up and went and checked the e-mail's. The following was waiting from Randy Bruner regarding the Hutchings-Kelley #2 well:
The location plot, which is submitted to the state and thus is public is shown to the right (click on the image for full scale view).
I was ecstatic. First well I recommended. First well drilled. The Hutchings-Kelley #2was successful. Daniel offered me a 1/4% ORRI (OverRiding Royalty Interest) on this well. It was anticipated to be about 250 MMCF (million cubic feet) of gas, which would produce a $4,000 ORRI over about 18 months, weighted to the front end. The log turned out to be very good. The pressures were 1600 pounds, and did not change much when the choke size was changed. It is possibly 2 to 4 times as big as expected. What a nice way to end the year.
After reading this, I did my exercises, went for a run/walk, and Andrea and I went to look went to Lowes to look at shelves for the boxes in the garage. There were three on the shelf, and they fit our measurements. Took her home, and went back to buy them with Sandy and Mike's truck (Andrea's walking lady). Someone had loaded two of the three on a cart, and was leaving with them. I bought the one left. Then I went to customer support and learned there were six more in the back. I bought two more. It took a couple of hours to bring them from the back. As I was checking out I was asked if I wanted them to put them together for me. It was only $10., so I said sure. They could only do the assembly for the two I just purchased. So I took one home and put it together. It was easy to put together. Oh well! I put it in the garage, and put all of the HyperMedia boxes on it, went inside, and went to work on the Dynamic Measurement TWiki secure web pages.
Later in the afternoon I got a phone call from Denise at Dr. Solis' office. Her news was not so good. My Cholesterol is at 269 and should be between 1 and 199. The Good Cholesterol is 49, which is OK, and the Bad Cholesterol is at 185, and should be between 0 and 99. Triglycerides are at 175 and should be between 0 and 149. Glucos, Serum was at 102 and should be between 65 and 99. Plus my Thyroid was high. Bottom line is I am now on Crestor daily at $125/month or $25/month generic and Synthydoid at $18/month. And I am to go on a diet, loose some weight, and go back for retesting in 2 month. Thus the rest of my life begins. I was pleased the dermatologist did not find anything. It was unsettling when there were 8 polyps with the recent colonoscopy. My lower back has been hurting a bit. And I was not expecting this report on the last day of the year. Oh well! I still count swallows. Now I need to start taking notice of the swallows, like I did when I first started the procedure, and loose some weight. The good news is I did my exercises every day since this call, and my back pain has gone away. I was getting checked out because our Cobra Insurance ends in March, and we have been looking at a Medical Savings Plan. I wanted to be sure everything was OK before switching to this program. After all, I will be 60 this year.
I worked on the DML TWiki pages all afternoon and into the evening. I got to a stopping point about 10:00 PM, was tired, and so I kissed Andrea, who was working on a sewing project, wished her a happy New Year, and went to bed. I really must be getting old.
Thursday morning I got up, did my exercises, went for a run, came back and took down the Christmas Tree Lights. This took until mid afternoon. Then I worked on the TWiki pages the rest of the day and evening.
Friday morning got up, did my exercises, went for a run, came back and called Lowes to find out the shelves were put together. I went and got the pickup and went to pick up the shelves. I had taken a photo of the shelves with measurements to Lowes on Wednesday so they would put it together right. It ended up taking 2 hours to find the shelves in the back. They probably were not put together. When they came up front they were not put together like my instructions, so I took them apart and put them back together. I made them find some plastic holders to put in the shelves. It was almost 11:00 AM by the time I got home. Andrea helped me move the shelves into the garage, and I moved all of the boxes onto them. There were 4 more plastic boxes than shelves. Oh well! I was pretty tired when I went in and got cleaned up about 3:00 PM. I spent the afternoon and evening working on the DML TWiki site.
Saturday 03 Saturday morning got up, did my exercises, went for a run, came back and went out to the garage and moved the cardboard boxes full of magazines in front of the middle shelf. The garage looked nice when we finished. And we pulled the Saturn into the garage for the first time since Katrina, and the second time since Andrea moved here.
Sunday morning I got up and did my exercises. Andrea asked why I was doing exercises on Sunday. Told her it was for my back. Guess it was also because of the call from Dr. Solis' office. Meetings did not start until 11:00, and there was no Choir practice. I prepared my Sunday School lesson, and read several sections from the Doctrine & Covenants. I wrote a couple of possible stanzas for Prime Words during Fast and Testimony Meeting:
The Bishop had stopped describing Sunday School during announcements before Sacrament meeting because they had not sustained me as a Sunday School Teacher. At the close of the meeting, when he finished giving instructions before going to Sunday School, Sister Harlen, who was sitting in back of us, said he had to wait to give that announcement until I was sustained as a Sunday School Teacher. Then she said that when Grace found out she was going to be released from the Primary Presidency, she said, "Mom, get them to call Brother Nelson as a member of the Primary Presidency." I replied, "I could do that." She responded, "I know."
I brought my guitar for my first Sunday School class. As I was setting up, President Steward stuck his head in the room and told the kids he wishes he was in their class. Nice ego boost. There were 4 of 9 students in attendance. Hopefully we will get more there as time goes on. Sierra Gram, Morgan Larson, and Emily Sarlls each had younger sibling's in my Primary Class. Sean Knight would have been my only Webelos Scout if Brother Keller had continued with issuing that call when we talked a couple of years ago. I have been very impressed with Sean and how his testimony has brought him and his Dad to church regularly.
I forgot to go over to the Bishop's office to get set apart after Priesthood Meeting, and was waiting for the Walkers to come out of Memorial Ward Sacrament Meeting. However, they are in Bamff, and Andrea came and got me. It was a nice blessing with the setting apart. It is a nice blessing to have Andrea look out for me. As we were leaving church we saw Sue Feil, Linda Jones, Tiffany Feil and spouses. Each of them congratulated me on being a Sunday School teacher. Linda asked if I was going to bring my guitar to class. I told her I did today. Maybe I've made more of a difference than I think I have in my moments of feeling insignificant.
I spent the afternoon writing the January letter:
http://www.walden3d.com/photos/Christmas/081225_Christmas_Vidor.
So it seems to me like there is a very good start to the new year. Certainly it is nice to learn the success of the he Hutchings-Kelley #2 well."