We don’t care how cold it gets, until it actually snows and sticks on the ground, we wear shorts and t-shirts.
War On Alcohol a failure – big surprise!
Anyone involved in the ongoing alcohol war in Bush Alaska is not at all surprised by recent findings that the alcohol war is about as successful as the drug war. The problem is that no one seems to be able to come up with a better solution that won’t take a long time for results to show.
Sometimes the problem of alcoholism is simply addiction itself. A person is born with a proclivity towards addictive substances and all the best parenting, schooling and counseling in the world can’t cure that. All you can ever do is control it, a daily
The cost of things
I am not a good consumer. If the fate of the free world depended on my spending habits, the only survivors would be grocery stores and animal rescue groups. So when I was recently forced to shop for shoes and a purse the sticker shock I felt when I pulled out my credit card would have been enough to convert my heart from manic fibrillation.
What the hell is this? Some dumb lady puts her name on the purse and suddenly it costs twice as much as I paid in rent on my first NYC apartment. Have we all lost
Please stop robo calling me
You know who you are. You are all very annoying. And if you are a politician, every robo call is just one more reason I won’t vote for you. This is worse than telemarketers. Never let a politician figure out a cheaper way to annoy the good citizens of this country because once they have, there is no going back. It just gets worse and worse. I don’t know how you’re feeling about now, but I’m thinking benevolent dictator doesn’t sound all that bad anymore.
What did we do before the Internet
I thought my connection was acting funny because of all the rain and the earth was so wet. I figured that had to affect my Internet connection, right? Wrong. That thinking apparently is a hold over from when TVs had metal rabbit ears that had to be turned just right to see Ed Sullivan without lines. I believe that was sometime in the 1950s.
So after spending a very reasonable amount of time with a very nice GCI tech person, who never once commented on how old people should not be allowed around these new fangled devices as I called
Syria
Questions that must be asked… why are we the world’s police? If there is trouble in the world, why is the US expected to respond? And, quite frankly, have we now become nothing more than a country of mercenaries, soldiers for hire to any hot spot around? Is that how we plan to keep our economy pumping, by feeding the bloated military industrial complex? How sad.
It’s official
I’ve latched my windows shut and turned my furnace back up to 64. Summer is now officially over. Let winter commence.
Thoughts I think when I wake up in the middle of the night
Am I the only one who thinks that the reason some fundamentalist Christian ministers get so bent out of shape about gays and claim that acknowledging the legitimacy of gay marriage will hurt all marriages is because they are afraid that if gay love is legitimate, they will leave their wives and finally find their true loves?
Adios, Pepe’s
It’s hard to explain to people who have never lived in a small village in the Alaska Bush how you can mourn the loss of a restaurant almost as intensely as you would mourn the loss of a friend. But I’m going to try because Pepe’s was more than just a Mexican restaurant in Barrow.
When I first moved to Barrow, there were two restaurants in town. One was Al’s Eskimo Café. It was open year round. The other was Brower’s Café. It opened only during tourist season when it served reindeer soup and an Eskimo donut in an atmosphere
Underwhelmed
As the campaign season ramps up in Alaska, am I the only one totally UNDERWHELMED by the choices I am being offered?