Comment again and stuff

Comments have been turned off. I don't have the time to deal with the freaking spammers. Fucking moron idiots that don't have anything else to do with their fucking time. Well, guess what idiots? I work full time, run a house, plus have plenty of input on another house a few hundred miles away, plus write books. I don't have time for your bullshit. So, because of the slime I'm shutting off all comments. Fuckwits.

No matter how the previous paragraph sounds, I've noticed my sense of humor has kicked in. Yeah, I can make a comment and get my co-workers shaking their head at me. But they come up with some great one-liners, too. Too bad I can't capture a few of them for my writing, but I think they'd be lost to those outside the medical field. Too bad, because there's some beauties that get tossed around.

I'm really pretty happy with the job. I always loved the work. It was the politics within the hospital environment that bugged me. Right now I get to do the work I love doing without being caught up with the internal politics.

I'm sure there is some here, but I wonder if it will ever be on the level it's at other places.

Over all, Dillingham is not like any other place I've been. At work, a large portion of the staff are temporary. I think that keeps a lot of the negative away. Which is good.

I still haven't spent much time in Dillingham. It's six miles away. We can check out a vehicle, but there's only a couple and it's a first come first served basis. I did run into town today for more groceries. I did have total sticker price today. I finally found a 2 liter bottle of soda. Not my flavor, which was fine. I refuse to pay $4.78 or was it $4.98 for a 2 liter bottle of soda. The man who used to allow me to wash his dirty dishes picked up four 2 liter bottles in Homer for $1.25 each.

UPS and FedEx are jokes here. Express mail and priority mail take precedence over UPS or FedEx. In fact, if it's not shipped either express or priority, there's no assurances to delivery. I'd hate to have someone ship me something media mail. I might get it sometime in 2006. I have serious doubts if it would arrive before Christmas.

Dillingham is off the beaten path. Hell, it's off the path period. If a horrible storm front moves in, all flights are cancelled. Yeah, that's somewhat scary. I don't know the longest they've been cancelled, but I've heard something about two weeks. Yikes. Yikes. Yikes.

Most days have been cloudy since I've been here. Today was another rainy, drizzly day. On the way into town it was halfway between drizzle and rain. Plus the wind had picked up. I'm assuming the roads can be very interesting when they're covered with ice, especially if the wind is blowing. I hope they put studded tires on the vehicles when things start freezing.

I know I keep talking about pictures. I keep putting them off. This area doesn't have a good internet connection. Remember the previous paragraph...off the path? Well, this area doesn't have hard phone lines. Therefore DSL isn't real DSL. Dialup isn't real dailup. Hell, phone calls have echoes. It's part of living here.

The rules that apply to living in other areas of Alaska, especially the areas on the road system, don't exist here.

What does this have to do with the pictures? Everything. I need a large chunk of time to spend getting them sent to this blog with such a slow connection. I haven't found that large chunk of time. When I do, I'll try to post a few. Which means I'll have to take more pictures.

From Dillingham...Jody