back in camp

well, the fun and relaxing days are over and it is back to the usual grind. Nothing really new to say.

So far the funniest thing that happened in the last couple days was yesterday one of the geo-techs was at the pastry counter and was going to pack some cookies out to his work area. No worries there but he was trying to get a paper bag to do this. Here is where it gets interesting. Picture a cabinet with 4 holes to hold stuff in a 2x2 design. The lower 2 are directly at eye level (probably around 5'5" high) and the other 2 are higher up around the 6 foot mark or slightly higher. On the lower shelves in one section I have sandwich bags (with 3 opened up) and paper bags all loose and free to grab easily. In the other section are tin take out containers and lids (similiar to the tin containers you would get from a chinese take out place). On the higher, more difficult levels, are paper bags still in their tightly wrapped shipping wrappings and more boxes of sandwich bags but none of them opened. Yesterday I watched a geo-tech walk in and reach up and try to get a paper bag out of the wrapping. Now, these wrappings are not loose and you literally have to rip off the wrapping to get the bag out. He stood there, struggling trying to get it out for a good 30 to 45 seconds before I called out to him about the loose bags. The thing that got me laughing is that you know when you are reaching for something or doing something too high, instead of looking up at it you sort of let your head go to eye level and you go sort of by feel. Well he did that and directly not even 2 inches from his nose was two stacks of loose, easily grabable, paper bags. It would be like a lumber jack going to cut down trees but not being able to because he was looking at the forest. I let him struggle for the 30 seconds before saying "you know there are loose ones to your left". He managed to find them and get his treats for the day.

Getting darker up here, sunlight wise. The weather has been raining and snowing on and off for the last couple days causing people to be a little more miserable than normal. Not everyone seems to enjoy the solitude and all of camp life, though I sometimes don't really mind it. If there was any one thing I can honestly say I enjoy about the north in the wintertime is the lack of sunlight in the evenings. During the summer it is always so difficult going to sleep with the sunlight streaming in the windows. Our curtains are not bad at keeping out the light but not perfect. Now I go to bed in darkness around 11pm or so and I wake up to darkness around 6am or so. Soon the night shift will be happy as well cause we will soon have 24 hours darkness and they will be able to sleep.