BUSH DIARY JANUARY 1996
Jan 1: Listened to the fireworks last night. Sounded like cannon booming for quite a while. We stayed home snug in beg, the wind chill was minus 65 a bit chilly. One of the cab drivers was telling about going to watch and needing to wear his "Good" parka. Yeah, the one with windows, four wheel drive and a heater? Yeah.
Went in to work in self defense. Sorted a pile of charts into pharmacy, coding and filing. Did one little discharge summary and three days worth of census and balanced my end of the month report. Ah something accomplished.
1-2: Still off gonna go out for one of our meals today.
Talked to Carla this weekend. She is flying back and forth between Seattle and Ohio. Much of a muchness regarding job interviews. Feeling positive!
1-6: Got the PFD application in the mail, I will submit name change with this one, also send off documents to tax lady in Idaho.
Different kind of computer problem: We received a brand new 8000 thousand dollar embosser. It embosses patient name, MR number, DOB and City on a plastic card. This card is then used to emboss all sorts of papers that go into the medical record. The embosser came in a crate the size of a small Volkswagen. Have the various pieces assembled and on the desk top. I must teach a programmable keyboard. Help! I need a teenager. Fortunately techno geek Joe is networking on this with me. Wrestled with faxed directions on the keyboard. Finally got the keys programmed and got everything formatted and we are golden.
Embarrassment of riches helper wise. We have a couple of students to help over the holidays. Two kids have been farmed out to us and clinical and administration. One girl is pre-med and lovely in her concentration for small details. The other girl is a delight, very social and an absolute nightmare with little concentration for small details. Help, must. not. strangle. student!!!
Jan 10. Happy first anniversary to us. We had dinner at Arctic Pizza. Tim had charbroiled halibut, I had the chicken marsala. Yum. There was another couple there celebrating same date only 20 years longer. Congrats all around.
1-11: I watched the 48 Hours segment on Barrow. We don't look as bad as we would have. The cops rousted native drunks on the first wet weekend. Interestingly enough we are having another vote regarding the wet/damp/dry issue in February.
1-12: Just when you have heard everything. Alaska Airlines has received several phoned in bomb threats. That with a fresh break in at a local construction company's dynamite shack prompted Alaska Airlines to wave off flights. One flight held at Prudhoe Bay and returned to Fairbanks.
PSO thought they knew who was making the threats. The whole 1300 block of Kongek Street was evacuated. Evacuees who didn't have people to stay with were told to go to the Assembly of God Church. The suspect finally surrendered. Heard that PSO had not found the missing dynamite yet. Update: The suspects girl was leaving on an Alaska Air flight and he was making sure she didn't leave town. Love is strange.
Computer trouble. NSB sent over Network Support to fix the memory parity error (what ever that is) on the PC in medical records. Still didn't fix it.
Saturday 1-13: Brought home lots of mail and a Walmart order. A plastic jar of peanut butter actually BROKE. A skip loader must have run over the package. There was a boot print on the package.
Monday 1-15: Martin Luther King day. The blasting folk have been blasting at the gravel pit. Much kaboom!! Apparently the reason for the blasting was that the powers that be decided to use up all the rest of the dynamite before it got stolen. Uh huh.
1-23-96: First sunrise in Barrow!! 1:20 pm, very pretty, got the usual 45 minutes of day light. Whee!
Work: Busy with evaluations which look suspiciously like last years. (evil grin)
Messenger Feast was 5,6,7 of February. Much dancing, much games. I like to watch the festivities on Eskimo channel. Borough to spend 200k this year. They plan to more or less hold the Feast every other year.
Housing: Mary Jo got some good news. She was suddenly called and told that the she qualified for a house. She was so happy she bawled all afternoon. I can't blame her the kids were sleeping the rafters in their little house. The house will get built this summer and they can be in it by October.
So that is all for January. G'night folks.
Jan 1: Listened to the fireworks last night. Sounded like cannon booming for quite a while. We stayed home snug in beg, the wind chill was minus 65 a bit chilly. One of the cab drivers was telling about going to watch and needing to wear his "Good" parka. Yeah, the one with windows, four wheel drive and a heater? Yeah.
Went in to work in self defense. Sorted a pile of charts into pharmacy, coding and filing. Did one little discharge summary and three days worth of census and balanced my end of the month report. Ah something accomplished.
1-2: Still off gonna go out for one of our meals today.
Talked to Carla this weekend. She is flying back and forth between Seattle and Ohio. Much of a muchness regarding job interviews. Feeling positive!
1-6: Got the PFD application in the mail, I will submit name change with this one, also send off documents to tax lady in Idaho.
Different kind of computer problem: We received a brand new 8000 thousand dollar embosser. It embosses patient name, MR number, DOB and City on a plastic card. This card is then used to emboss all sorts of papers that go into the medical record. The embosser came in a crate the size of a small Volkswagen. Have the various pieces assembled and on the desk top. I must teach a programmable keyboard. Help! I need a teenager. Fortunately techno geek Joe is networking on this with me. Wrestled with faxed directions on the keyboard. Finally got the keys programmed and got everything formatted and we are golden.
Embarrassment of riches helper wise. We have a couple of students to help over the holidays. Two kids have been farmed out to us and clinical and administration. One girl is pre-med and lovely in her concentration for small details. The other girl is a delight, very social and an absolute nightmare with little concentration for small details. Help, must. not. strangle. student!!!
Jan 10. Happy first anniversary to us. We had dinner at Arctic Pizza. Tim had charbroiled halibut, I had the chicken marsala. Yum. There was another couple there celebrating same date only 20 years longer. Congrats all around.
1-11: I watched the 48 Hours segment on Barrow. We don't look as bad as we would have. The cops rousted native drunks on the first wet weekend. Interestingly enough we are having another vote regarding the wet/damp/dry issue in February.
1-12: Just when you have heard everything. Alaska Airlines has received several phoned in bomb threats. That with a fresh break in at a local construction company's dynamite shack prompted Alaska Airlines to wave off flights. One flight held at Prudhoe Bay and returned to Fairbanks.
PSO thought they knew who was making the threats. The whole 1300 block of Kongek Street was evacuated. Evacuees who didn't have people to stay with were told to go to the Assembly of God Church. The suspect finally surrendered. Heard that PSO had not found the missing dynamite yet. Update: The suspects girl was leaving on an Alaska Air flight and he was making sure she didn't leave town. Love is strange.
Computer trouble. NSB sent over Network Support to fix the memory parity error (what ever that is) on the PC in medical records. Still didn't fix it.
Saturday 1-13: Brought home lots of mail and a Walmart order. A plastic jar of peanut butter actually BROKE. A skip loader must have run over the package. There was a boot print on the package.
Monday 1-15: Martin Luther King day. The blasting folk have been blasting at the gravel pit. Much kaboom!! Apparently the reason for the blasting was that the powers that be decided to use up all the rest of the dynamite before it got stolen. Uh huh.
1-23-96: First sunrise in Barrow!! 1:20 pm, very pretty, got the usual 45 minutes of day light. Whee!
Work: Busy with evaluations which look suspiciously like last years. (evil grin)
Messenger Feast was 5,6,7 of February. Much dancing, much games. I like to watch the festivities on Eskimo channel. Borough to spend 200k this year. They plan to more or less hold the Feast every other year.
Housing: Mary Jo got some good news. She was suddenly called and told that the she qualified for a house. She was so happy she bawled all afternoon. I can't blame her the kids were sleeping the rafters in their little house. The house will get built this summer and they can be in it by October.
So that is all for January. G'night folks.
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