BUSH DIARY DECEMBER 1997:
12-2: Strange dream, went shopping for umbrella.
Tim's Birthday present arrived today, UPS had a huge box with a completely assembler Hermon Miller office chair. It is slick, black, very 21st century.
Alcohol related statistics. We have been tracking ETOH related visits since 1993. Barrow has been damp, dry and went in the past three years. October 97 was dry and had 30 outpatient ETOH related visits. November 97 was damp and had 107 ETOH related visits. There was also a net gain in the non-drinking population during damp periods, misery loves company I guess.
12-5: Blistery weather the last couple of days. Wind chill minus 50 projected with incoming blizzard.
We haz an IT guy a last!!! Rick Ingersol is here with his wife and two pre-teen kids. He knows the RPMS system as well as the network stuff. THank you God!!
The ice is officially in and frozen solid.
12-13: Computer problems at home, grand crashing. Dell tech support was very helpful and recommended that we refrain from downloading shareware. Thanks!
12-17: Had to chase down National Bank of Alaska to ask where was my replacement debit card, please? They will put a rush on it.
12-17: Traveling dream.
Fruit cake rules. Tim really likes my fruitcake recipe. I like it because it does not have citron on which makes all fruitcake taste like nasty. I cooked a ham on Saturday and took the fallen apart bits to work for consumption. Success. brought back an empty crock pot.
Stupid travel dream, getting lost in a hotel dream. Bother.
Hey I got cited in a serious publication. Dr. Arva Chiu mailed me a copy of he JAMA article she and Dr. Perez submitted for publication. The title is long "The Effect of Alcohol Related Visits in Barrow, Alaska by Local Option Laws". (gasp)
For several years now we have been tracking ETOH related visits at SSMH. They collaborated and wrote the article. The main author is actually a physician in California but the piece rambled on for several pages pointing out how the ETOH related visits dropped 80% when the local option law made it illegal. The article was dedicated to Dr. Paul McCord and Dr. Tim Coalwell and yours truly as contributors. How 'bout that I has been cited.
Weird baby sitting dream. Looking high and low for the other baby who I ultimately found sleeping in a laundry basket.
Book Review: I read a book written by Richard Dreyfuss and Harry Turtledove. Title is "The Two Georges" A novel of alternate America wherein the colonies never rebelled against England. The title comes from a famous picture of George Washington and King George III posing amicably. The painting gets stolen. There is a long distance chase via dirigible one leg was from Southern Alaska to Chicago. And one of the authors could not resist an old Hollywood joke. One of the sidekicks is a black guy named Sam Stanley who is in the lounge tinkling the ivories and playing a love song. The other cop is nursing a broken heart and getting drunk. Sam sees him and stops playing and apologizes. The heart broken cop says, "Play it again, Sam.". And the plot was dialog driven and I figure that was the actor writing.
Security training today: One of of the security consultants put on a white lab coat, wore a stethoscope and went to nursing and told them he was the TDY Dr.Cox and he was going to take the baby to x-ray for pictures. Okey dokey. He wheeled away that baby. Dennis Stevens, RN popped up soon asking about baby and the guy introduced himself. That was scary. Normally the baby's don't even go in the nursery they all room in with the Mom's, so security is pretty well familied up. But Mom was in Anchorage for a minor procedure and we were baby sitting. I even got to hold the baby a little bit and feed her a bottle. Cute.
Riven: playing it too much. I am seeing the little left hand or right hand in my dreams. Ugh.
End of December, Happy Holidays!
G'night folks.
12-2: Strange dream, went shopping for umbrella.
Tim's Birthday present arrived today, UPS had a huge box with a completely assembler Hermon Miller office chair. It is slick, black, very 21st century.
Alcohol related statistics. We have been tracking ETOH related visits since 1993. Barrow has been damp, dry and went in the past three years. October 97 was dry and had 30 outpatient ETOH related visits. November 97 was damp and had 107 ETOH related visits. There was also a net gain in the non-drinking population during damp periods, misery loves company I guess.
12-5: Blistery weather the last couple of days. Wind chill minus 50 projected with incoming blizzard.
We haz an IT guy a last!!! Rick Ingersol is here with his wife and two pre-teen kids. He knows the RPMS system as well as the network stuff. THank you God!!
The ice is officially in and frozen solid.
12-13: Computer problems at home, grand crashing. Dell tech support was very helpful and recommended that we refrain from downloading shareware. Thanks!
12-17: Had to chase down National Bank of Alaska to ask where was my replacement debit card, please? They will put a rush on it.
12-17: Traveling dream.
Fruit cake rules. Tim really likes my fruitcake recipe. I like it because it does not have citron on which makes all fruitcake taste like nasty. I cooked a ham on Saturday and took the fallen apart bits to work for consumption. Success. brought back an empty crock pot.
Stupid travel dream, getting lost in a hotel dream. Bother.
Hey I got cited in a serious publication. Dr. Arva Chiu mailed me a copy of he JAMA article she and Dr. Perez submitted for publication. The title is long "The Effect of Alcohol Related Visits in Barrow, Alaska by Local Option Laws". (gasp)
For several years now we have been tracking ETOH related visits at SSMH. They collaborated and wrote the article. The main author is actually a physician in California but the piece rambled on for several pages pointing out how the ETOH related visits dropped 80% when the local option law made it illegal. The article was dedicated to Dr. Paul McCord and Dr. Tim Coalwell and yours truly as contributors. How 'bout that I has been cited.
Weird baby sitting dream. Looking high and low for the other baby who I ultimately found sleeping in a laundry basket.
Book Review: I read a book written by Richard Dreyfuss and Harry Turtledove. Title is "The Two Georges" A novel of alternate America wherein the colonies never rebelled against England. The title comes from a famous picture of George Washington and King George III posing amicably. The painting gets stolen. There is a long distance chase via dirigible one leg was from Southern Alaska to Chicago. And one of the authors could not resist an old Hollywood joke. One of the sidekicks is a black guy named Sam Stanley who is in the lounge tinkling the ivories and playing a love song. The other cop is nursing a broken heart and getting drunk. Sam sees him and stops playing and apologizes. The heart broken cop says, "Play it again, Sam.". And the plot was dialog driven and I figure that was the actor writing.
Security training today: One of of the security consultants put on a white lab coat, wore a stethoscope and went to nursing and told them he was the TDY Dr.Cox and he was going to take the baby to x-ray for pictures. Okey dokey. He wheeled away that baby. Dennis Stevens, RN popped up soon asking about baby and the guy introduced himself. That was scary. Normally the baby's don't even go in the nursery they all room in with the Mom's, so security is pretty well familied up. But Mom was in Anchorage for a minor procedure and we were baby sitting. I even got to hold the baby a little bit and feed her a bottle. Cute.
Riven: playing it too much. I am seeing the little left hand or right hand in my dreams. Ugh.
End of December, Happy Holidays!
G'night folks.
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