Two prognostications:
1. He will have a beard
2. He will seem to have grown a couple of years of maturity. Especially as he is a lead man out there.
His beard is full now. He made it home Tuesday, then Wednesday, had me drive him to Dallas to pick up a 2016 Toyota Land Cruiser he'd put a down payment on. It had 40,000 miles on it and looked brand new. He wanted something much more dependable and safe than the 98 Z71, with 270,000 miles on it, he was currently driving.
And he just left, they need him at the rig in the morning. No more 20/10 as a lead. When the rig's working, he's working. He said, on estimate, he's putting in around 130 hrs a week. He said a lot of it is due to the inexperience of the night crew.
Before they made him lead, the last well he was on, they broke some record on completion time. He said the company bought everyone a pellet bbq pit. It hadn't been delivered yet.