Remember that teacher from your early school years that always encouraged you to stay between the lines when coloring? Well, Lindsay Wadsworth never thought much of staying between the lines. So it is ironic that many years later, he earns his living not just by staying within the lines, but by creating them.

You probably don’t give shoes a second thought. I know I usually don’t. I slip them on in the morning, walk around in them all day and shuffle them off by the door when I get home. I bet you do the same. Lace them up, stomp around the jobsite, kick off the dust and call it a day.

While on a recent drilling project, I was unfortunate enough to pick up a virus that made me sick enough that I ended up in the hospital. Fortunately, between the doctors, lab technicians and radiologists, they were able to find out exactly what it was that made me sick. These experts had the information that they needed, so that they could use the proper medications to kill it off and get me on the road to a full recovery. In the drilling industry, we work in much the same way.

Repairing Wolf Creek Dam, which was build in the 1940s, would have been a big job under any circumstances. But new technology and help from Treviicos-Soletanche helped the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers complete the work with confidence.

Spring has made its long-awaited debut, so I’m sure business for many of you (at least in the northern climates) will pick up soon. But, just because you’re busy out in the field, it doesn’t mean you can’t take The Driller with you.

It was mid July of 2011 when I received a phone call from Jeff Stoffel, owner of Stoffel Bros. Drilling in Enterprise, Ore. Work for him, like all drilling contractors in the West, had been a little on the lean side, so I was happy for him when he told me he had gotten a job drilling a well for the Minam River Lodge.

There has been a lot of talk lately about “the cloud”-cloud computing, cloud data storage, etc. So what is this cloud all about and how, if at all, does it apply to the groundwater industry? I decided to do a little snooping, so I visited a company I’d heard about in Las Vegas called Aqua Management Inc. (AMI).

I can remember when my dad was working for George E. Failing Company as a salesman and troubleshooter. He usually hung out at Failing Plant No. 2 in South Enid, Okla., where the original Failing drill sat outside for many years. That rig was my playground.