BUSH DIARY FEBRUARY 1993:
Sad news from home. Mom called to tell me that Jim and Anita's baby boy was born February 3 and did not live. He was born with a cord around his neck. He was otherwise perfect. I sent a card and some cash for a get away. It's a very hard piece of news.
Weird week at work: Last week one of our ladies was gone all week because her Aunt Rose died. The whole family flew in from all over. The body arrived Friday morning just in time for the 2 o'clock funeral. The bodies that come to town are kept in the back hallway of the hospital in the two drawer morgue. The family schlepped to the hospital for the viewing as there are no funeral homes in Barrow. They opened the casket and were dismayed to discover a little old black lady lying in state in no way resembled Aunt Rose. The funeral was postponed until Monday afternoon. It seems the bodies were accidentally switched in Anchorage. Aunt Rose was sent to Virginia. One of the nurses was heard to murmur sadly, "You know Rose never traveled that much when she was alive..."
Judy is in Albuquerque this week soaking up all things a IHS for continuing education and quality assurance.
This week we are having Kiviq or Messenger Feast. The mayor refrained from declaring a three day holiday in a bit to restrain the budget a little bit. Some of the festivities include a fun run between the MarkAir terminal and the High School. There is a ceremonial lighting of the seal oil lamp, the lamp was light inside this year.
I read in the Anchorage newspaper that the State approved 771 million dollars for education. The borough budgets about 50 million and that includes the villages etc.
Long distance romance continues apace. There be lengthy phone calls.
Charlie has moved. He lost all of his roommates and cannot afford the apartment. He bought a car that he says he will live out of for a while. He will let me know when he gets settled down. eeeeee
Presidential Inauguration: If you notice any Eskimo's in the parade the Barrow Dances were invited to attend.
We lost our phone service last night. Apparently an undersea cable was entangled by a trawler about ten thousand feet of fiber optic cable. So that means that phone service will get routed through the satellite and we lost local access for one of the television feeds. And that is the channel is all Star Trek etc. Also speaking via satellite involves about a 1 second lag so there is the tendency to over talk.
That's it for February 1993.
Sad news from home. Mom called to tell me that Jim and Anita's baby boy was born February 3 and did not live. He was born with a cord around his neck. He was otherwise perfect. I sent a card and some cash for a get away. It's a very hard piece of news.
Weird week at work: Last week one of our ladies was gone all week because her Aunt Rose died. The whole family flew in from all over. The body arrived Friday morning just in time for the 2 o'clock funeral. The bodies that come to town are kept in the back hallway of the hospital in the two drawer morgue. The family schlepped to the hospital for the viewing as there are no funeral homes in Barrow. They opened the casket and were dismayed to discover a little old black lady lying in state in no way resembled Aunt Rose. The funeral was postponed until Monday afternoon. It seems the bodies were accidentally switched in Anchorage. Aunt Rose was sent to Virginia. One of the nurses was heard to murmur sadly, "You know Rose never traveled that much when she was alive..."
Judy is in Albuquerque this week soaking up all things a IHS for continuing education and quality assurance.
This week we are having Kiviq or Messenger Feast. The mayor refrained from declaring a three day holiday in a bit to restrain the budget a little bit. Some of the festivities include a fun run between the MarkAir terminal and the High School. There is a ceremonial lighting of the seal oil lamp, the lamp was light inside this year.
I read in the Anchorage newspaper that the State approved 771 million dollars for education. The borough budgets about 50 million and that includes the villages etc.
Long distance romance continues apace. There be lengthy phone calls.
Charlie has moved. He lost all of his roommates and cannot afford the apartment. He bought a car that he says he will live out of for a while. He will let me know when he gets settled down. eeeeee
Presidential Inauguration: If you notice any Eskimo's in the parade the Barrow Dances were invited to attend.
We lost our phone service last night. Apparently an undersea cable was entangled by a trawler about ten thousand feet of fiber optic cable. So that means that phone service will get routed through the satellite and we lost local access for one of the television feeds. And that is the channel is all Star Trek etc. Also speaking via satellite involves about a 1 second lag so there is the tendency to over talk.
That's it for February 1993.
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