BUSH DIARY MARCH 1993, once again.
Monday March 8, 1993: Tim is here. I met him at the airport and he brought his cat, Bradford who was not happy. Took a couple of tries to get the luggage from there to home and partially settled. Let the relationship commence.
No toilet flushing in the apartment. About 11:30 Sunday evening the toilet refused to flush. Ack!!! I called housing who thankfully came over ,looked at it and got is off at midnight and were kind enogh to leave a honey bucket. Yikes!! Night crew came about 5 am and checked for plugs somewhere along the line and unplugged and hooked everything back up. Thank yew Housing!!!
Another day of toilet not worky!!!! Please Housing come fix!!! Blubber blubber.
Have come down with my yearly bout of Barrow crud, Tim also contracted same crud three days into his time here. Yay. Between bouts of throat, chest and other ailments we have actually considered marriage dates and the various tasks involved to get that accomplished. We are in no hurry just discussing and we will get around to it one of these days.
Nurses Quarters: Are almost finished. They were made available to people to move in this weekend. I walked over at lunch to look at Glo's apartment, she actually lives with her daughter, Wanda, who is a nurse at the hospital. Residents are cautioned not to flush feminine products down the loo. Jeeeez. Fire alarms got tested, over and over and OVER.
Tim is adjusting to life in Barrow, he is all appropriately booted and parka and it is nice to have a partner with which to ride bus and shopping and other intangibles. Nice.
March 25,1993: We got our first full blown AIDS patient. A woman 33 years ago, had an HIV lover five years ago. It does not look good for her. The hospital is having very intensive universal precautions being taught to wokers, nurses and nonmedical personnel.
FAMILY HOUSING: I am reminded that Gale has marched successfully through the process to obtain a house. She has a lovely back yard and space to groom dogs if she wants to start a bidness.
RAISE: I will be darned. I got a 4 on my performance review which puts me in the 5% category if and whey the Borough budget gets approved. Yay!!!! It is very weird but the borough PAYS FOR ALL OF THE HEALTH CARE for all employees. I think they allocate 100k each time someone is hired. It all goes into a kitty and gets managed for paying health bills for employees. I am stunned.
Taxes: I mailed off everything to Judy's tax person in Idaho and I have to pay $218.00 to Unca Sam, none to Alaska. Very happy to do that. Happy, I tell you!!
Recent scandal: We have a genuine character working as a taxi cab driver here in Barrow. Her name is Sheila T. Her lover is married and she has been sharing the Boy-toy for some time. Every once in a while the wife or Sheila will show up all beat to hell or slashed up. None of us can figure out the attraction. As near as we can figure, the gentleman in question is an acquired taste. Erk. Anyway Sheila's little house on sledges burned down and she has nothing left on her property but pilings. Perhaps she will rebuild, we will see.
Today at break one of the native ladies, Lois Anderson, talked about food. She told the story about when she was a little girl and her cousin gave her some money to go spend at the store. She and her girl friend went into the store and looked and looked and finally selected a bottle that was red. She and her friend went outside to sit by the lagoon and took turns tasting it until it was gone. They then put water in the bottle and shook it and drank the water out of the bottle. She found out later that they consumed a bottle of catsup. Big Smile.
Lois also told me that they did not know what potatoes were. So they fried them in seal oil and thought they were pretty good.
Monday March 29, 1993: Sam and Lee's burned down. Damn, that's where I liked to go for Mongolian Beef and to listen to Korean opera. Hope they rebuild.
Charlie check: I hear second hand through Helen that he is still working as a chimney sweep and is living in Sonoma county. Further details may or may not be forthcoming.
I think that is quite enough for March 1993.
Monday March 8, 1993: Tim is here. I met him at the airport and he brought his cat, Bradford who was not happy. Took a couple of tries to get the luggage from there to home and partially settled. Let the relationship commence.
No toilet flushing in the apartment. About 11:30 Sunday evening the toilet refused to flush. Ack!!! I called housing who thankfully came over ,looked at it and got is off at midnight and were kind enogh to leave a honey bucket. Yikes!! Night crew came about 5 am and checked for plugs somewhere along the line and unplugged and hooked everything back up. Thank yew Housing!!!
Another day of toilet not worky!!!! Please Housing come fix!!! Blubber blubber.
Have come down with my yearly bout of Barrow crud, Tim also contracted same crud three days into his time here. Yay. Between bouts of throat, chest and other ailments we have actually considered marriage dates and the various tasks involved to get that accomplished. We are in no hurry just discussing and we will get around to it one of these days.
Nurses Quarters: Are almost finished. They were made available to people to move in this weekend. I walked over at lunch to look at Glo's apartment, she actually lives with her daughter, Wanda, who is a nurse at the hospital. Residents are cautioned not to flush feminine products down the loo. Jeeeez. Fire alarms got tested, over and over and OVER.
Tim is adjusting to life in Barrow, he is all appropriately booted and parka and it is nice to have a partner with which to ride bus and shopping and other intangibles. Nice.
March 25,1993: We got our first full blown AIDS patient. A woman 33 years ago, had an HIV lover five years ago. It does not look good for her. The hospital is having very intensive universal precautions being taught to wokers, nurses and nonmedical personnel.
FAMILY HOUSING: I am reminded that Gale has marched successfully through the process to obtain a house. She has a lovely back yard and space to groom dogs if she wants to start a bidness.
RAISE: I will be darned. I got a 4 on my performance review which puts me in the 5% category if and whey the Borough budget gets approved. Yay!!!! It is very weird but the borough PAYS FOR ALL OF THE HEALTH CARE for all employees. I think they allocate 100k each time someone is hired. It all goes into a kitty and gets managed for paying health bills for employees. I am stunned.
Taxes: I mailed off everything to Judy's tax person in Idaho and I have to pay $218.00 to Unca Sam, none to Alaska. Very happy to do that. Happy, I tell you!!
Recent scandal: We have a genuine character working as a taxi cab driver here in Barrow. Her name is Sheila T. Her lover is married and she has been sharing the Boy-toy for some time. Every once in a while the wife or Sheila will show up all beat to hell or slashed up. None of us can figure out the attraction. As near as we can figure, the gentleman in question is an acquired taste. Erk. Anyway Sheila's little house on sledges burned down and she has nothing left on her property but pilings. Perhaps she will rebuild, we will see.
Today at break one of the native ladies, Lois Anderson, talked about food. She told the story about when she was a little girl and her cousin gave her some money to go spend at the store. She and her girl friend went into the store and looked and looked and finally selected a bottle that was red. She and her friend went outside to sit by the lagoon and took turns tasting it until it was gone. They then put water in the bottle and shook it and drank the water out of the bottle. She found out later that they consumed a bottle of catsup. Big Smile.
Lois also told me that they did not know what potatoes were. So they fried them in seal oil and thought they were pretty good.
Monday March 29, 1993: Sam and Lee's burned down. Damn, that's where I liked to go for Mongolian Beef and to listen to Korean opera. Hope they rebuild.
Charlie check: I hear second hand through Helen that he is still working as a chimney sweep and is living in Sonoma county. Further details may or may not be forthcoming.
I think that is quite enough for March 1993.
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