Omelettes and Dirty ASS Rough Necks

So I love omelette's,  sometimes simple and sometimes complex.  The key to a successful omelet is preparation.  Start by first deciding what kind of omelet you want, if cooking for others be sure to ask what ingredients they prefer.  For me the more the merrier, ingredients that is.  Don't be afraid to try odd ball items in your omelet, for example as a kid my mom would make me jelly omelets.  When cooking a omelet their are a few do's and dont's. Use a hot omelet pan medium to medium high heat, scramble your eggs in a metal mixing bowl mix in a little heavy cream, (works better than milk).  Lay out separate small bowls, prep all your ingredient's, and put in separate bowls.  Use real butter, always use real salted butter I don't care what anyone else says real butter rock's.  Here's some likely ingredients; onions, peppers, (Bell, Serrano, jalapenos), ham, mushrooms etc..  I'm not big on sausage or bacon in my omelette's I prefer these items on the side.

When cooking for numerous people like 5 rig hands I find it easier to just make a type of a scramble, mainly because |I don't have 5 burners and 5 omelet pans.   For example today I made a 10 egg scramble.  Start by turning your oven to 325 degrees, Grab  a full size flat pan, do not use a baking sheet unless you want a huge grease fire.  Layer your bacon, use good bacon its worth the extra few dollars, you get what you pay for.  Layer the bacon side by side in the pan, you should be able to cook 1 pound at a time this way, you don't want to overfill the pan or your bacon will not cook evenly.

Prep your ingredients, for this scramble I will use bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, and jalapeno peppers.  Check your bacon and when it is about half way through cooking about 15 minutes, pull the bacon out and pour some of the bacon grease into a large skillet.  Be sure to choose pans that will accommodate the amount of ingredients, or amount of grease that will be produced by the rendering of a high in fat pork product.

Add your hard vegetables like onions and peppers first let them saute on medium to medium high heat, once you are able to pierce the vegetable easily with a fork go ahead and add your remaining ingredients.  After all ingredients have cooked for a few minutes add a little more bacon grease.  Add your scrambled egg mixture to your other ingredients, cook until eggs are of the consistency you prefer.

By this time your bacon should be fully cooked to perfection,  be sure to drain the grease.  Layer a plate with a few paper towels to soak up some of the bacon grease.  This meal is sure to please, and as always with hungry rig hands their will be none left.

Straight hole drilling has to be one of the most boring types of drilling there is.  Now don't get me wrong Its OK to do one every now and then, but it makes an all ready easy and boring job even worse.

Lets talk about pig pen not the imaginary character from Charlie Brown, but the filthy ass roughneck that's in the safety meeting every morning.  This hand looks like he swims in invert (invert is oil based drilling fluid), we aren't even drilling with invert.  Needless to say he was called out by the tool pusher this morning in front of everyone, and given a last chance scolding.  Think about it there are 20 plus hands that share a man camp over the course of a month,  I can only imagine what the sheets and mattress that he uses looks like.  I swear this guy is like a pipe dope slug, where ever he goes he leaves a trail of black sludge behind.  He reminds me of a guy I served with in the Navy, this guy would not shower, we had to put a shower watch on him every day to make sure he washed his stinky ass.  So the moral to the story is if you are a filthy fucker wash your ASS.