Welcome Samina, the CRUD and Coffee House Trauma
So I’ve been threatened with dire punishments if I don’t update my blog more often, so here’s a little entry for you!
Samina got in a few days ago and it’s been great to see her and catch up. She’s off to Happy Camper to sleep in the snow tomorrow. I am certain it’ll be great - everyone seems to have a wonderful experience. Except my pal Mikey who was out in Condition 1. I look forward to timekeeping at the Marathon on Sunday with her! I am personally of the opinion that you are utterly mad to run a marathon in Antarctica, but then again I’m also sort of impressed.
Somehow we’ve got two strains of flu and a ton of different viruses going around here. Many of our part-time workers (bartenders, burger bar cooks, bowling pinsetters and so on) are out of commission. It’s something - when Burger Bar shuts down half the town wants to commit suicide. It’s just that time of the season. Thus far (knock wood) I’ve managed to avoid the worst of it.
Also, we had a scare with one of our bars - The Coffee House, which is one of the older buildings on station, has a weak roof and there was a chance it was going to get shut down. That’s the place where they serve wine and, not surprisingly, coffee. It’s popularity with the beaker set has currently saved it from closure, but we had a day there where we thought it was a goner. But we’ll have a bit more Coffee House good times to enjoy before the season comes to a close.
That’s all for tonight - off to bed, hugs to all.
Well, in spite of the flu and loss of watering holes, at least your weather report looks good. You are in the mid 30s while our high in Denver is going to be 25 today. Its 1 right now. Stock show weather. Sita is doing great and doesn’t seem to mind when the dogs stage a mass 3 prong attack. She just holds her ground and they know not to touch. They sure make a lot of noise though.
Bye the bye - Do you have a police force? What happens when some one goes postal? Do you have a jail? Who gets to have the firearms and tazers? Don’t you need personal protection from maurading penguins? Just curious about the justice system.
MF
I think Big Dead Place (check the blogroll –> ) has a few links covering postal issues. Oh! Rats. My favorite link there (an interview with ‘Modern Drunkard’ magazine) is down. Should rename the blog “Big Dead Link Place” …
Anyways, as I recall, when the one guy went postal with a wrench, he was locked in an office or something until they could set him on the first plane north. Think it said they did the whole judiciary-and-imprisonment thing in Guam.
Terrible news about the Coffee House! So what’s the story, do they have to shut it down for the winter and set up a replacement building next spring?
*Fingers crossed against the CRUD*
– Dave
The incident where the guy went wacko was during winfly one year - he checked out a hammer from housing and whacked another guy with it. There was some wintertime gay love involved in that apparently. The whack-er then brought the hammer back to housing, and the person at the desk didn’t even notice the blood on it. They locked the dude in Hut 10 (I think) and folks on station had to guard him - my former co-worker Kelly was on that detail.
There’s no official police force, but it’s part of the Firehouse’s duties to deal with that kind of thing.
And once they opened the ceiling tiles of the Coffee House, the damage was much worse than they anticipated, so they did shut it down, and they’ll work on it through vessel time, will hopefully have it fixed before I leave on the 23rd. Or 21st, not sure yet.