7 more days tomorrow!

Come tomorrow it will be 7days til my return! Thank fuckin spiritual entity.
I am tired, sore and sick...inhaling toxic black mold in the walls.
I realize I have not kept up with posts...it has been a pain to get on the computer in front of people and spend some time blogging. My brain tends to be mush by the end of my shift...like I forgot to pull smoked salmon from the freezer for the buffet tomorrow..crap
So the fish we get to take home is not what we catch..new policy this year is everyone gets a random box of fish...most likely all coho as we have an excess of it. Coho is good salmon..I was just hoping to get some chinook for my grandma. We also have to pay for the shipping of our salmon to vancouver via the care of St. Jeans cannery...no idea what the cost is but dang that blows kinda.
Out of town staff and people going back to school are leaving tomorrow and monday. no such luck for me...boourns.
My back is looking forward to sleeping on a comfortable bed and watching kitchen nightmares UK on netflix....mahahah! yes I saw your email
ok time to die for the night.

7 more days tomorrow!

Come tomorrow it will be 7days til my return! Thank fuckin spiritual entity.
I am tired, sore and sick...inhaling toxic black mold in the walls.
I realize I have not kept up with posts...it has been a pain to get on the computer in front of people and spend some time blogging. My brain tends to be mush by the end of my shift...like I forgot to pull smoked salmon from the freezer for the buffet tomorrow..crap
So the fish we get to take home is not what we catch..new policy this year is everyone gets a random box of fish...most likely all coho as we have an excess of it. Coho is good salmon..I was just hoping to get some chinook for my grandma. We also have to pay for the shipping of our salmon to vancouver via the care of St. Jeans cannery...no idea what the cost is but dang that blows kinda.
Out of town staff and people going back to school are leaving tomorrow and monday. no such luck for me...boourns.
My back is looking forward to sleeping on a comfortable bed and watching kitchen nightmares UK on netflix....mahahah! yes I saw your email
ok time to die for the night.

Haida Gwaii day..hmm no idea

Ok quick post as I start work in 15 minutes
So alot has happened, one this keyboard is all jammed up...fuck ppl ....anyways
More people fired/laid off and I still have a room to myself for now. A fishing guide was let go last week, another cook left due to back injury which appeared to be suspect and out relief cook was laid off yesterday. So whats bad for me? no more days off. I will be working straight through until the day I come home. Yay...err boo.
I am also feeling sick right now, we had a couple days of sun and "warmth" which apparently has allowed some spores to take off according to a repeat worker. So I am congested in my head sinus and l;ungs..yes lungs...feels horrible. I have been hitting the buckleys since the end of my shift yesterday. I slept a good 10 hours yesterday too.
I think last wednesday will be my last fishing outting here now that I wont have time off. At least it was a good one, caught a 27 pound chinook, my biggest so far.
Best to be off the water until I am well again anyways.
Breakfast does not start until 6am now due to the timing of sunrise...means more time to get ready in the morning...but also means more people showign up all at once.
Well I should get going...seems everyone has started their countdown
til next time

Haida Gwaii day...ah I dunno less than a month til home

Ok it's been a long time since my last post. I apologize, work has been busy and has made a very tired zack.
So whta's new? I don't think I mentioned in my last post that my roommate was fired. What was the cause? possession of
contraband, a bottle of vodka, and being a drunken idiot. Now there were several instances leading up to this event, the way I saw it
was that it was only a matter of time. Let me explain his previous incidents. He showed up to work nd drunk once and was
banned from the staff bar for 2 weeks. first day back in the bar he gets wasted and cross checks the bartender with a pool cue
when they're trying to kick him out, banned again. Goes into someones room and takes their laptop and then leaves it in the staff cook shack,
gets wasted and throws food around in the cook shack and causes a ruckus around 4am..managers bedrooms are in the same building.
Banned from bar.
The final incident involves him getting wasted again. When I woek for work he ran into the room and proclaims I need vodka.
I am tired of his bs and say no I'm going to work, he then produces from his bunk a 26 ounce bottle of stoli vodka. He claims
a guest bought him the bottle after he gave him a tour...I don't believe it and I dont think many others do either.
He takes a slug and runs out the room, it's 12:30am and I know he works at 8am, I head to work. I mention his drinking to my co-worker and we canonly shake our heads.
Later on hear from a server they saw him running around with the bottle around 4am and the bottle almost empty.
This was also a change over day, so when my boss comes in he says to say bye to so and so because they fired him that morning.
What happened? Well he tried getting in bed with a fishing guide 2 rooms over, only in his boxers. He was thrown out, he thin went into
the next room and got into the bottom bunk. The top bunk resident yelled at him to get out but he argued back he can sleep
anywhere he wants. knocks the bottom bunks lap top and external hard drive on the floor. My boss finds him passed out in the bunk
after he is late for work, wakes him, finds the bottle and he is fired. Has to pack his things and is flown out that day.
He's flown to Masset, from there he has to find his own way home.
Shitty deal for him, felt kind of bad for him but it's his own fault and had his chances.
I was able to go fishing again this week on my day off, headed out at 6am for a morning of fishing. I went out with our night
time staff cook, fished from 6am to 11am. Its been coho crazy out there..so much coho salmon in the waters right now. Big Chinook
are out there but it's hard to catch them with so many coho in between, last week 2 chinook over 60 pounds were caught, massive
fish..upsetting they killed them. Big fish breed big fish or at least lay a huge number of eggs.
I no longer have my room to myself, temporary roommate staying while a manager is in vancouver visiting their family.
Less than a month to go til I fly home...today my chef came up to me and said " if I were to lay off someone would you be able to handle working the remaining
time without days off?" My answer is yes, I'm here and the job has to be done..I will work everyday if I have no choice.
It looks like someone is being laid off and I'm pretty sure its our hipster tournant chef who covers our days off.
Why? well because he is pretty much useless.I did the first 3 weeks without any days off but the difference is at the beginning
of the season I didn't feel tired, I definitely feel tired now. Back sore from my bed and looking forward to home.
My boss also asked me if I wanted to stay for rig down, basically another 5 days to clean and put things in storage until
next season. Ehh I basically said no...my job back home etc...I honestly am ready to go home and ready to see my family and friends.
So if that co-worker is laid off I will have a rough last run to the finish line..will be tiring..plus no more fishing lol.
I have an issue with my pay cheque too, the cash advance seems too high. It appears to be double what I should be charged.
For the two weeks that the cheque covers I know I had only 6 beers and I've obviously been charged double. Must talk to our on site
payroll person.
Well it's taken me almost 2 hours to write this, been dozing off and distracted by old no reservations episodes.
I will update again soon

chalupa files: Haida Gwaii day 47?

I know I haven't been posting as fequently as before...tired after work and my laundry blah blah.
But today is a post day. Getting tired up here...meaning the long hours are wearing me out, every day seems a little more difficult than before.
So I was really looking forward to having a beer tuesday night, but the bar was closed due to our bartender being ill. She has a kidney infection or something. So I was disappointed to say the least, drank coffee and watched tv in the evening after sleeping most of the afternoon after my shift.
Around 9:30 word is my chef will be the bartender for a few hours that night, yay, so come 10ish I am able to have a pint of okanagan springs pale ale by the camp fire. Rain started to kick in so I went inside, watched the gong show of people making asses of themselves and finished the night off with a second pint. I enjoy having beers with the boat mechanic and staff cook...they like to vent and I like to listen...I can relate. Both older than me by alot but good times nonetheless.
There was a rumour ablaze that there was going to be a staff fishing charter today at 10am. Last time I listened to a rumour I went to the dock only to be turned around.
Fortunately the rumour was true and 12 of us were on out on the Q, our transport boat. We fished from 11am and back at the lodge just after 5pm. IT was lots of fun, they had beers and smoked salmon for us, no beer for me as a moving boat makes me feel ill. We were all fishng with small spin cast rods for coho, jigging buzz bombs (a type of lure), catching these fish on these small rods were alot of fun, such a fight and lots of action. Took some video of a dock hand who hooked into a big fish...i stopped it once we realized the fish had taken his line into a kelp bed and snagged him up.
MY first fish of the day was a halibut and they tried to gaff it (stick with a sharp hook) and pull in the fish...but somehow stabbed its head and knocked it off into the water. Boo...so not only did we lose the halibut, but its probably dead at the bottom of the ocean with a hole in its head.
Rest of the day was coho after coho and one pink salmon. It was a slaughter fest.
Apparently the chinook salmon fishing dies down soon...boo was hoping to catch a Tyee up here (salmon over 30 pounds).

Definitely missing home right now...seems most people are. Everyone is talking about what they're going to do when they get home. Strangely enough going for sushi is on alot of peoples to do list lol.
well time to have some food and head to bed...must sleep