Sunday, December 25, 2022

If Your Memory Serves You Well -- From November, 2013 -- December 25, 2022

All this talk about cold weather this year, it's as if it never happened before.

Link here.

A musical interlude:


Julie Driscoll Brian Auger & Trinity - Wheels On Fire (1968)

If your memory serves you well
We're going to meet again and wait.
So I'm going to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late.
No man alive will come to you
With another tale to tell,
And you know that we shall meet again
If your memory serves you well.  

-- Bob Dylan and Rick Danko

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The Book Page

First book for my 2022 - 2023 winter reading program.

Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, Pekka Hämäläinen, c. 2022.

Subtle Jump In Production; A Decade-Old Well -- Enerplus Hokanson -- December 25, 2022

From Sunday, December 30, 2012:
  • 21420, 344, Enerplus/Bruin/HRC/Petro-Hunt, Hokanson 157-99-1A-12-1H, Lone Tree Lake, t9/12; cum 106K 8/19; needs to be re-fracked; cum 128K 10/22; recent production: 
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN10-202231143314853478118711272
BAKKEN9-2022301428143436741090102014
BAKKEN8-2022311530152242511139905176
BAKKEN7-20225381607681821470
BAKKEN6-20221798198124687295972
BAKKEN5-20221478273322835934822
BAKKEN4-202222892914350889869827
BAKKEN3-2022299968015375883430224

Initial production, back in 2012

BAKKEN3-201328265727203082121601020
BAKKEN2-201328305128213620130301114
BAKKEN1-201331331134483810144301233
BAKKEN12-201230326132864303135701154
BAKKEN11-201230437243405922138901193
BAKKEN10-201230401238387467185501645
BAKKEN9-2012214783451120737377303640

The neighboring well:

  • 37363, loc/A, Kraken, Hokanson 1-12 2H, Lone Tree Lake, t--; cum 192K 20/22; full production:
PoolDateDaysBBLS OilRunsBBLS WaterMCF ProdMCF SoldVent/Flare
BAKKEN10-20223175197461141221155410830372
BAKKEN9-20223086768689158951334212841203
BAKKEN8-2022311053710522172141621915699306
BAKKEN7-2022301168511676193941585215445194
BAKKEN6-2022301301413053204331484114428205
BAKKEN5-2022281729517209306331527414395672
BAKKEN4-202252884294749083414330348
BAKKEN3-2022302123321245350962558524871359
BAKKEN2-2022282960529599476653175130913432
BAKKEN1-2022303739037382692323479734121241
BAKKEN12-2021293196331876707512665225652649

The graphics


Cookies For Hanakkah; Lefse; And, Tex-Mex In NYC -- December 25, 2022

From earlier this week:

A mention of lefse, from The New Yorker, December 26, 2022:


Tex-Mex in NYC, from The New Yorker, December 12, 2022:

Merry Christmas, Y'all -- December 25, 2022

For now: Lots of energy stories later, but for now, just resting in my toasty, warm bed in north Texas -- Euless, near Grapevine, DFW, Texas. 

We haven't turned the heat on since yesterday evening when we turned on the heat for about fifteen minutes before dinner. Woke up to 69° in the apartment. Now, it's just toasty warm under a lot of blankets. I'm lovin' it.

ERCOT, the grid held. The media is reporting some outages in Texas but they were regional, they were minor, and they had nothing to do with ERCOT. 

Dallas Cowboys win big; incredibly good game; and, it could have easily turned out differently.

Best use of science: I had audio "off." Did not listen to audio; video was all I needed. Link here.

Southern living: link here

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Feature City of The Week: Tromsó, Norway

When you click on the wiki link:

  • scroll about a third of the way down;
  • find the daytime, panoramic view of Tromsó;
  • don't click on the photo but put your arrow over the picture, and scroll all the way to the right;
  • then click on the picture and click on the arrows at the right, so see some great photos of this northernmost city

Or, simply watch this video two or three times. 

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Christmas Dinner 2022

No more turkey or ham for me from now on, for either Christmas or Thanksgiving. 

Lobster, salmon, and shrimp this year, but Peking Duck is still in the mix for future dinners, but most likely as part of a New Year's celebration.