BYO Rifle, Not Beer

Recent trips taken by friends and colleagues from Perth:

• Drinking and sunbathing in Bali
• Drinking and catching up with friends in Sydney
• Hiking Machu Picchu
• Drinking and clubbing in Hong Kong
• Drinking and sleeping in Bangkok
• Aerial feral hog hunting in Queensland*

*I was going to make a crack that only in Australia would someone take a week of vacation to shoot feral hogs from a helicopter but apparently it's very popular in Texas.  The Texas State Legislature passed 'the pork chopper' bill this spring which makes it legal, as of September 1st, for sport hunters to rent the gunner seat on a helicopter to shoot wild hogs and coyotes.  And apparently bookings for gunner seats are going quickly.  There is a huge amount of enthusiasm in Australia and Texas to temper out of control feral hog populations.  H, let's not move to Texas.  Unless of course my birthday mercenary can ride shotgun while I shoot feral hogs.  Yee haw.

 

Image courtesy of Eric Lewis via http://www.texasmonthly.com/2011-08-01/webextra10.php

Bali Dreams

On Monday I will be putting my new PPE to use with a visit to a few of my company's sites.  I asked H if he wants a picture of me in my flame retardant work pants, high visibility personalized shirt, steel toe boots, hard hat, and safety glasses.  H's response?  Not only does he want a picture of me in my extraordinarily awesome PPE, but he wants a picture of me in my extraordinarily awesome PPE on site.  Because as he put it, how else can he determine whether or not I swapped my flight to the field for a flight to Bali?

Umm, H, what would you do?