BUSH DIARY AUGUST 1996:
8-4: Decided to make oatmeal raisin cookies. I also made a batch Tex/Mex lasagna. I chopped up a Jalapeno pepper and used a cup of salsa. Also added fresh mushrooms and zucchini. Drained off lots of liquid. Tasted pretty good.
Taking a trip: We booked tickets for September. For the very first time we get to go first class from Barrow to Seattle. That usually does not kick in until Anchorage. That only means we get on the plane first. Should be interesting.
8-5: Update on the Fortune 500 ship: Well we did have some rather pricey talent come to town Members of the World President's Club and their wives just spent two weeks on a Russian nuclear icebreaker, the Imar, from Murmansk. They had BBQ at the North Pole. Then our local Search and Rescue flew out and transported all 45 couples to Barrow. Phew! They all managed to go on a Tundra tour and lunch at Pepe's. The qualifications for membership area that the member must have been president before age 35 of a company worth more than 200 million bucks. The Club presented Search and Rescue a check for 10k in thanks and an electronic keyboard for the schools. Thanky.
Barge news: Stuck in Wainwright, it ran aground. Hope a high tide comes to the rescue.
8-7: Hah! saw the barge on my way to work this morning. The barge will off load 4000 tones of goods, mostly building material and eight modular homes.
8-7: Strange day at work. Went to our regular medical record meeting that includes us and the nurses. Barbara was not well organized. She had prepared some scanty minutes. And the first order of business was to change the name of the committee to Health Information Management Committee and expand membership to all departments and hold the meetings quarterly.
There was immediate objection. Name changes have to go through channels which means area and up. In addition pharmacy, lab and x-ray are too busy to attend another committee meeting.
Lastly was the review of standardized abbreviations as required by JCAHO. Barb had copied the current list but had not collated or stapled the lists. We did a hurried scramble of assembly. She had crossed off several commonly used terms and this met with objection from nursing. This took an hour God help us.
The fall out is that the head of nursing urged me to talk to the CEO so I did so. She called me back to consult with ASNA Personnel. He said he would speak to her
about the situation. He estimated that it would take about six weeks for any changes to happen. Dear God, must. not. kill. boss. lady. I feel so bad about this because I dutifully made all the calls to references and checked it all out. Boy was I ever not quite right.
More torture: I was called to Beloved Leader's desk to help on the end of the month report. She kept putting in stuff and changing stuff and doing it wrong and I had to help her fix it back. Argh!
In addition to this, she asked Carolyn for a private office. Carolyn told her that no she could not have a private office because there were none available.
Carolyn also told her that no she could not take another trip for a coding seminar because of budget issues and that budget must be shared with other members of the department.
Barbara told me that her daughter called her at 5 am to ask her what to do about the burial plots? Um, is this a sign, God?
We had a small printer set up on Barbara's desk to print out birth certificates. She complained that her desk was too crowded. Since I have a printer for same function, I removed the printer and put it in storage.
8-10: The barge folks called to say that our 28 boxes of goods would be delivered sometime mid week. We have the hallway for stack up of boxes. Hope nothing is very tippy.
We went to Pepe's for Saturday breakfast but there was a huge tour group from Taiwan there and we walked to Sam and Lee's for breakfast. It felt strange getting individual plates for hash browns, toast, scrambled eggs and pancakes. Lots of plates, lots.
Interesting: The post office finally issued a po Box for the hospital. That only took 30 years. The official address is: Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital. 1296 Agvik Street, Po Box 29, Barrow, AK 99722-0029.
News from home: Just talked to Mom. Carla's house burned the garage to a crisp and lots of smoke damage. The lovely antique T-bird is now known at T-burnt. They will be staying at Marsh's house for the next three weeks. We were going to stay with them but will get a room in September.
8-11: Snow flurries. Purchased two chickens and ingredients for potato salad. I loves me some fried chicken.
8-12: Lots of transcription today. Dr. Maria Freeman got all caught up. Lovely girl, I caught her one day typing her own H&P and asked why she was typing it? She said it made her think about her patient better. God bless the woman!
Beloved Leader came in at 8:45 am today, sat at her desk paying bills during lunch and wandered off and came back about 2 pm. She was really beating up the computer, I glanced at what she was typing when I went by and it was a very long letter to her last place of employment urging them to pay for her last seminar that she attended. The national organization was threatening to take her to court for nonpayment. The drama!
8-13: OMG my neighbors in the 12-plex were busted for bootlegging. She is the dentist in Public Health and her husband works for BUECI. They actually had another house rented in Barrow and that was where they did all the brewing. I used to see huge cardboard boxes of something (Thought it was dog food) delivered at the Public Health building all the time and just thought, boy that's a lot of toothbrushes. They were both busted, went to jail and got out on bail. She is commission corps with IHS in the Dental program. They stand to be fined 10k and some jail time. Eesh. Cops reported they found 176 bottles of beer on the wall and eight carboys brewing. Upshot is that she goes to Anchorage for two weeks until legal stuff is taken care of. Husband was fired from BUECI immediately.
Beloved Leader Report: Carolyn flagged me down in the hallway to say that she had set up weekly meetings with Barbara for attitude adjustments.
Got the call from the Barge folks about to deliver our order. They showed up almost 10 pm at night and got everything shuffled into the apartment. Tim had managed to get most of it put away the next day and there is sufficient passage from front door to living room. Yay!!
Beloved Leader excused herself to go home at 3 pm today to watch...The Republican Convention...really? She especially wanted to watch Bob Doles acceptance speech.
8-16: Company Picnic: The plan was for employees to ride in various boats to the Point where a sumptuous repast of hot dogs awaited. The weather degraded rather severely and the picnic was moved to the commons. Much better!!
One the ER nurses popped in to ask if Beloved Leader had left for her afternoon nap yet. Yup. Dish of cream was passed and consumed, meow.
8-21: Luxury liner moored off shore. The Hanseatic Liner coming from Europe via the Northwest passage, the fifth such successful trip. The passengers descended on Barrow in many red rubber life rafts. They departed and the plan was for the ship to return via the Panama Canal. 25k per berth.
Got that wrong: The Hanseatic was headed north and trying to beat the ice pack. The Hanseatic ran aground near King William Island. Most recent news still aground, passengers taken off to continue their trip via other means.
I learned a cultural thing today. I learned that the way an Inupiaq says yes is to raise the eyebrows. A non verbal No is a wrinkle of the nose. Now that would be a good thing for non-natives to be oriented about. Kids are easy, those little eyebrows go up easily and often. You just have to watch for it.
Okay August is almost over, G'night folks.
8-4: Decided to make oatmeal raisin cookies. I also made a batch Tex/Mex lasagna. I chopped up a Jalapeno pepper and used a cup of salsa. Also added fresh mushrooms and zucchini. Drained off lots of liquid. Tasted pretty good.
Taking a trip: We booked tickets for September. For the very first time we get to go first class from Barrow to Seattle. That usually does not kick in until Anchorage. That only means we get on the plane first. Should be interesting.
8-5: Update on the Fortune 500 ship: Well we did have some rather pricey talent come to town Members of the World President's Club and their wives just spent two weeks on a Russian nuclear icebreaker, the Imar, from Murmansk. They had BBQ at the North Pole. Then our local Search and Rescue flew out and transported all 45 couples to Barrow. Phew! They all managed to go on a Tundra tour and lunch at Pepe's. The qualifications for membership area that the member must have been president before age 35 of a company worth more than 200 million bucks. The Club presented Search and Rescue a check for 10k in thanks and an electronic keyboard for the schools. Thanky.
Barge news: Stuck in Wainwright, it ran aground. Hope a high tide comes to the rescue.
8-7: Hah! saw the barge on my way to work this morning. The barge will off load 4000 tones of goods, mostly building material and eight modular homes.
8-7: Strange day at work. Went to our regular medical record meeting that includes us and the nurses. Barbara was not well organized. She had prepared some scanty minutes. And the first order of business was to change the name of the committee to Health Information Management Committee and expand membership to all departments and hold the meetings quarterly.
There was immediate objection. Name changes have to go through channels which means area and up. In addition pharmacy, lab and x-ray are too busy to attend another committee meeting.
Lastly was the review of standardized abbreviations as required by JCAHO. Barb had copied the current list but had not collated or stapled the lists. We did a hurried scramble of assembly. She had crossed off several commonly used terms and this met with objection from nursing. This took an hour God help us.
The fall out is that the head of nursing urged me to talk to the CEO so I did so. She called me back to consult with ASNA Personnel. He said he would speak to her
about the situation. He estimated that it would take about six weeks for any changes to happen. Dear God, must. not. kill. boss. lady. I feel so bad about this because I dutifully made all the calls to references and checked it all out. Boy was I ever not quite right.
More torture: I was called to Beloved Leader's desk to help on the end of the month report. She kept putting in stuff and changing stuff and doing it wrong and I had to help her fix it back. Argh!
In addition to this, she asked Carolyn for a private office. Carolyn told her that no she could not have a private office because there were none available.
Carolyn also told her that no she could not take another trip for a coding seminar because of budget issues and that budget must be shared with other members of the department.
Barbara told me that her daughter called her at 5 am to ask her what to do about the burial plots? Um, is this a sign, God?
We had a small printer set up on Barbara's desk to print out birth certificates. She complained that her desk was too crowded. Since I have a printer for same function, I removed the printer and put it in storage.
8-10: The barge folks called to say that our 28 boxes of goods would be delivered sometime mid week. We have the hallway for stack up of boxes. Hope nothing is very tippy.
We went to Pepe's for Saturday breakfast but there was a huge tour group from Taiwan there and we walked to Sam and Lee's for breakfast. It felt strange getting individual plates for hash browns, toast, scrambled eggs and pancakes. Lots of plates, lots.
Interesting: The post office finally issued a po Box for the hospital. That only took 30 years. The official address is: Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital. 1296 Agvik Street, Po Box 29, Barrow, AK 99722-0029.
News from home: Just talked to Mom. Carla's house burned the garage to a crisp and lots of smoke damage. The lovely antique T-bird is now known at T-burnt. They will be staying at Marsh's house for the next three weeks. We were going to stay with them but will get a room in September.
8-11: Snow flurries. Purchased two chickens and ingredients for potato salad. I loves me some fried chicken.
8-12: Lots of transcription today. Dr. Maria Freeman got all caught up. Lovely girl, I caught her one day typing her own H&P and asked why she was typing it? She said it made her think about her patient better. God bless the woman!
Beloved Leader came in at 8:45 am today, sat at her desk paying bills during lunch and wandered off and came back about 2 pm. She was really beating up the computer, I glanced at what she was typing when I went by and it was a very long letter to her last place of employment urging them to pay for her last seminar that she attended. The national organization was threatening to take her to court for nonpayment. The drama!
8-13: OMG my neighbors in the 12-plex were busted for bootlegging. She is the dentist in Public Health and her husband works for BUECI. They actually had another house rented in Barrow and that was where they did all the brewing. I used to see huge cardboard boxes of something (Thought it was dog food) delivered at the Public Health building all the time and just thought, boy that's a lot of toothbrushes. They were both busted, went to jail and got out on bail. She is commission corps with IHS in the Dental program. They stand to be fined 10k and some jail time. Eesh. Cops reported they found 176 bottles of beer on the wall and eight carboys brewing. Upshot is that she goes to Anchorage for two weeks until legal stuff is taken care of. Husband was fired from BUECI immediately.
Beloved Leader Report: Carolyn flagged me down in the hallway to say that she had set up weekly meetings with Barbara for attitude adjustments.
Got the call from the Barge folks about to deliver our order. They showed up almost 10 pm at night and got everything shuffled into the apartment. Tim had managed to get most of it put away the next day and there is sufficient passage from front door to living room. Yay!!
Beloved Leader excused herself to go home at 3 pm today to watch...The Republican Convention...really? She especially wanted to watch Bob Doles acceptance speech.
8-16: Company Picnic: The plan was for employees to ride in various boats to the Point where a sumptuous repast of hot dogs awaited. The weather degraded rather severely and the picnic was moved to the commons. Much better!!
One the ER nurses popped in to ask if Beloved Leader had left for her afternoon nap yet. Yup. Dish of cream was passed and consumed, meow.
8-21: Luxury liner moored off shore. The Hanseatic Liner coming from Europe via the Northwest passage, the fifth such successful trip. The passengers descended on Barrow in many red rubber life rafts. They departed and the plan was for the ship to return via the Panama Canal. 25k per berth.
Got that wrong: The Hanseatic was headed north and trying to beat the ice pack. The Hanseatic ran aground near King William Island. Most recent news still aground, passengers taken off to continue their trip via other means.
I learned a cultural thing today. I learned that the way an Inupiaq says yes is to raise the eyebrows. A non verbal No is a wrinkle of the nose. Now that would be a good thing for non-natives to be oriented about. Kids are easy, those little eyebrows go up easily and often. You just have to watch for it.
Okay August is almost over, G'night folks.
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