Tag Archives: work
A smattering of wonderful things
Oh June, you dramatic bastard. You have asserted yourself soundly in just two days. June means salmon in southeast Alaska which starts with anxious prepping and waiting followed by furious working and money making (and some slapstick pratfalls). When I … Continue reading
Extended Status Update
Not to blow my own bassoon, but I have accomplished a crap ton in the last 36-ish hours. I attacked the mundane, habitual and unsavory demons of dishes, laundry and recycling as a way of procrastinating the more complicated tasks. … Continue reading
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Hoopty, Digs, Freelance & Whipstitch
New hoopty, new digs, new published freelance piece, newfound talent for whipstitch. What the hell is going on? Could it be a quaterlife crisis for our audacious protagonista? Nah – just a weird alignment of the stars that put everything … Continue reading
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Her Ring
This is the real circle of life, Simba. Her Ring = herring, and that’s but one of the joyous discoveries of the fish-addled mind. Seriously – this herring shit has been popping off for two weeks, and it is time … Continue reading
Taxes and fucked up coworkers
Those two things are certain. Because my level of poverty means I still get most of my money back after the government borrows it for the year: tax time usually isn’t too excruciating. Lately, however, I have spent more quality … Continue reading
Ammonia and Tiny Ham Badgers
So it’s 7:20 this morning, and I have just been briefed on the glamorousness of my day’s work: asessing how many 3′x12′ sections of 8″ thickness wall foam will be needed for freezer construction (minus entrance door spaces – of … Continue reading
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Happy Dependence Day!
Dependence on summer money, dependence on salmon…I have a lot to celebrate. I’m carving a few minutes out of my day of sealing up and stickering shipping containers, writing production reports and crushing my fingers between blocks of frozen fish … Continue reading
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Waiting for salmon in Sitka
You can feel them. They’re churning the waters of the Pacific Northwest. The tide is spitting and frothing with expectation. The cadence of hammers, grinders, engines and bellowing skippers becomes more frantic by the day. “Mend the nets drain the … Continue reading
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