HAWSEPIPER: The Longest Climb

  Well, Thanksgiving day was a shit show but it worked out in the end here on the floating prison that I call my workplace. We had all the s...

 Well, howdee-do, I think we got Thanksgiving off!            This is a breath of fresh air. It's been right steady work-wise this tour....

 The days are running together- I've been here about 2 weeks, but it's hard to tell the difference between one day and the next. The...

I had an amazing two weeks at home. I spent the first week with Inappropriately Hot Foreign Wife in Ashe County, NC, where we rented a remot...

 Well, tomorrow is another trip done. I'm going home, briefly. Months ago, I booked a long weekend trip in the Blue Ridge mountains, and...

 I hate this.            The past two weeks has alternated between Busy and Goddam Busy.  Lots of cargo coming in and out of NY. It's th...

 So there's another bunker barge like mine in our local fleet, which I generally refer to as "The Retard Circus" because, well...