Haida gwaii day 31?

July 11th, yesterday was one month of being here exactly. Seems longer but a month has passed.
It's been a few days since my last update so what's new? Well we had another person quit. A new cook flew up last monday
to take over as AM staff cook. Some weird ass whack job who was plastered with tattoos and was all sketchy and jumpy.
He would consistently bitch about working for 10 hours and no OT was bullshit...apparently he did not read the employee
contract..hence we are salary and on a daily wage.
So saturday morning he was bitching outside the cook shack and was going off saying he was gonna leave monday and forget
working here. And then something strange happened....he goes off freaking out yelling so people can hear him claiming he's having
a stroke and lays down on the table. Now he claims he must leave now to go to the hospital and go home to vancouver...
so he then gets up and packs his bags and walks to the dock and gets on our transport boat..no plane..if they actually felt
he was dying a float plane would have come along. So another one bites the dust and good riddance.
However, I am now cooking breakfast for the guides and staff as well as cooking for the lodge...yay more work for me.
It's my birthday tomorrow..whats the plan? Well work for one and then sleep lol. I want to avoid the staff bar as well btw,
the last thing I want is to be given a bunch of shots or whatever...I do not want to be hung over or drink til sick anywhere
other than at home. I do not posess a bed thats capable of recouperation here.
Depending on how stressful tomorrow goes I may or may not have A beer.
Today was package day as well and no packages for me.. oh wells. is all good.
My neighbour has his friend pick up $50 worth of junk food from town lol....all I bought in town was hot chocolate, licorice
and strepsils for my sore throat.
Not much to see in Masset...didn't take many photos either..is all good. Was nice to have phone signal and text and do other
phone things...I am a slave to technology..speaking of which my ipod has died. It gave me the white screen of death.
I went to plug it into the wall and I could here the hard drive crunching and then a white screen with a ipod icon with an
unhappy face pops up with a link to apple support shows up and then powers down. I think it has died...I have no idea how.
So it appears I need to buy a new ipod when I get home eventually. I'll have to power up my old pc as well and load all my music
onto it as well. grr sucks.
I do have my iphone with me...with limited music on it but it will have to do.
Sunday we ad a complete power outtage, our generator took a shit and died at 4:45am..no power anywhere on site..guests were
eating in the dark. No power also meant no water as we have electrical pumps to pump our water which we produce ourselves as
well. The outtage lasted until a little past 5:30am..they had to refire the generator which was insanely loud...like a big
diesel truck turning over in cold weather...pretty sure it woke the guests lol.
Well I continue to plug along and work my ass off..worked for 11 hours today...I usually pull 11 hours a day.
I do miss home alot..it seems alot of people are starting to count the days til they head home. Definitely not easy being
away and so cut off...well we have poor internet and 1 phone but it still sucks.
Looking forward to my own bed and pillow.
that's all for today..the frogs are gone and in their place are Ravens and more Ravens...crows on steroids and loud as hell.