Sept 1 - We are getting tired!!!

We are working very long hours – many days in a row.

Shutdown has started. This is when the refinery shuts down production to make needed repairs to lines and furnaces etc.

The other thing this means is that our work hours go way way way up.

Right now, Doyle is working a "12 and 2" shift meaning he is working 12 days in a row and then 2 days off. I am working 13 and 1. Which really sucks.

Doyle also works 12 hrs shifts while mine have stayed at 10 for the most part. I do Monday to Saturday 10 hrs...then Sunday is 7...then Monday to Thursday 10 and then Friday/Saturday 6. So not all of them are full days. But it is starting to wear on us.

This will continue until the 25th of September.