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Update: August 25, 2001 by Ben Marcus
18:53
ALASKA TIME SATURDAY AUGUST 25, 2001 NEPTUNE FOODS DINNER
Shit,
the Bi
MONEY
I
don't want to think about money any more/
Dinner
time at Neptune Foods. Meatballs, pork, lima beans, baked potatoes
and bread, all prepared by the Frenchman and his wife, the latest
recipient of a pair of Smith Optics. Everyone else here rags on
the cooks. I decided to be nice to them. It's nice to be nice.
I'm nice.
I'm
surrounded by chattering Turks, most of whom I have befriended
byƒ.
Yes,
by being nice. Last night I set up the computer to watch Heat
and that Tarantino vampire movie. I tried to hook it into the
TV to improve the picture and the sound, and almost got it right.
There's some magic combination of pixels and colors I need to
divine, and then I'll be able to put DVD images on the big screen.
Just
now I showed one of the Turks all his options for buying laptops
on Ebay. There were 10 pages of laptops, and he got excited. We're
going to go shopping later.
Shit,
is dinner over already? Half an hour for dinner? Don't seem right.
Anyway,
it's a sunny day in Valdez and I've been hacking fish most of
the day.
We
started on the machine, chopping the larger silver salmons and
I decided I don't like the machine. My
Shit
the Boss Fella just yelled ñGear up.î
1:31
ALASKA TIME SUNDAY AUGUST 26, 2001 LUNCTHIME AT NEPTUNE FOODS
MONEY
Don't need any here. Food and board are free.
So
many fish, so little time. Couldn't log on again yesterday because
we sliced fish until midnight and then I let Team Turkey surf
the internet to buy a laptop.
Cutting
fish again today. We just got off the yucky machine-cutting line
and are back on the hand-cleaning line, which I like better.
I'm
now fast friends with Team Turkey. I've been taking photos of
them and sending them to Turkey and they also like trying to find
a laptop last night. They didn't find one because I don't think
they trust Ebay very much, but it was worth a try. We made kind
of an illegal entry into the main offices and tapped into a fax
line. I also caught a glimpse of a lot of files marked ñExxonî
which makes me thing they had a bit of a lawsuit against them.
I think everyone in Alaska did.
I've
heard that Neptune foods is getting the bum's rush from the City
of Valdez, too, and I can see why. It's a stinky business and
there are a lot of rascals camped out in tents and vans, some
of them with rascal cats.
Actually,
Ike had a day or two prowling around but I had to put him in the
van because it's not legal to have cats around fish processing
plants.
So
that's that. Just had my head down cutting fish and thinking a
million things.
Got
some interest on the Tidal Bore party yesterday, and so I sent
yet another mass e-mail to see if I can get some talent up here
to wow the provincials.
Everyone's
going back to the line but I'm headed for the library for an hour
or so to do some bidness.
It's
a werid transition to go from noisy, stinky fish processing plant
to nice., quiet libabry which is only stinky because of me.
It
looks like Team Turkey wants a ride to Anchorage on September
14, which could be just right if the Surf Party happens. We shall
see.
Right
now there is an Eskimo guy staring at my computer.
14:41
ALASKA TIME SUNDAY AUGUST 26, 2001 BEAR PAW RV RESORT
Oh
well. Library was closed but I found a connection at the Bear
Paw RV park. Sent some photos. Sent some e-mails about the bore
thing. Better get back to work.
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