Oh quite right. ANWR is the no man's land to the east, and NPRA is the west side excursion zone. Unlike ANWR, NPRA is limited/restricted access, not exclusive. Sorry for the confusion. I am heading back up tomorrow.

I am a project control specialist. I do cost and schedule analysis to manage performance and changes to contracted work as a method of variance control. I also dally with contract and risk management.

I used to be a project/program control manager, but the politics and the non-stop meetings and currying was not what I wanted to do. I like to keep my hands dirty actually grinding the numbers rather than spend endless hours arguing with egos about what the numbers really mean. I am not an accountant, and accountants really struggle with project control work. Some people think I use a crystal ball, and if so, it is a darned accurate one.