out of the cabins..

Guess the stupidity of camp computer internet usage has taken a new turn. Seems that all blog entries are now considered banned BUT we can use ‘quota time’ in which we have 6 ten minute blocks that we can use to view the blog entry type web pages. So guess that means that I can only post 5 more entries between now and June 16th, since I already used up ten minutes of my quota time already in the morning without realizing it or what it meant. So guess that is a good thing cause now I can just keep a word document going of all the stupid little things that are happening around here in camp and then on a specific day I use some quota time and just cut and paste all the goings on in one go. That way people can read at their leisure, assuming someone actually reads these bitter ramblings still, and know that at a certain day there will be more to peruse and read.

Anyways, here is the story I like to call ‘cabins suck’. I woke up in the morning and again looked at a chilly room with the prospect of walking across a cold floor to get my clothes so that I could get dressed to walk outside to the main camp to take a shower. Not exactly a way to get me in the best of moods first thing in the morning. I get dressed and grab my backpack with my towel and toiletries in it and open my door to a nice light layering of frost on the gravel road and steps of the cabin. Think it had to be in the -5’C range or so, but just guessing since I had no thermometer but I did notice that I could see my breath as I walked towards the camp.

Got to the camp and found a shower halfway into the camp and then went to the dining hall to eat breakfast. Since I usually call the Mrs at 7:15am while she walks to work figure I time my mornings so I get up, shower and dress, eat breakfast and then call her before returning to the cabin. No sense in showering, returning to the cabin for 15 minutes and then walking back to talk to her and then walking back to the cabin before shift starts.
Today, however, I added a little bit of extra movement since I heard that we had gotten wireless up and running again. I was disappointed last night that when I got to the cabin I could not connect with the internet because, according to the diagnosis thingee, I was ‘too far from the server/hub. Try moving closer or getting another hub to put closer to your computer’. So in the morning after breakfast I went to the rec area and started up my laptop. I got perfect wireless access and managed to browse through the comics I had missed in the last couple days.

So I was walking to the phones to call the Mrs when Radio walks by then the fun began. Here is how it went down:

(R)adio : “How was the cabin last night?” in his usual gruff voice

(M)e : *not happy with the cabins in the least so response is overly sarcastic and bitter* “oh great, I really love the cold walk to the camp to shower and the added treat of no internet makes it even so much more special. Thanks for putting me there”.

R: “what do you mean no internet? There is internet in the cabins”

M : “No, Sheldon didn’t get internet at all yesterday, last night I had nothing, this morning I had nothing and I came to the main camp and I get it like a breeze. I am apparently too far from the main hub to get any internet. So not much out there to keep me happy”

R: *in an increasingly angry voice* “don’t complain” *starts to go to the office*
At this point I see a phone is free and I drop the discussion since I want to get to the phone to call the Mrs before someone takes the phone.

I left the conversation at that but later I heard that the 1st cook heard about our ‘discussion’ and that he thinks it could have been handled a little more diplomatically. My dishwasher partner also came up to me and said that apparently Radio told him that if I keep complaining about the cabin Radio was going to send me home on the next plane. My only response to my partner was “he is welcome to send me home anytime he wants. My first stop when I get off the plane is to go directly to a lawyer and start looking at a wrongful dismissal suit and see how much money I can get from them”. Figure since I have never been late for a shift, never missed a plane, attended all the stupid meetings/courses they told me to, took on duties of other people without complaints and have never had a single filed complaint on my permanent record with the company to all of a sudden be dismissed from the company over a living arrangement might seem a little suspicious under the legal term of ‘rightful dismissal’.

About 45 minutes later, Radio walks by and calls me to the office. I am literally balled out for barking at him in public cause apparently when I bark in public his ‘back goes up and fights happen’ but if I mention in private ‘things get done’. I just look at him knowing that if I open my mouth I am gonna start to say things and fight back so I just look at him and wait to see how it is going to play out. He finally tells me to move to a room in the main camp and I am not to think that I ‘won’ and if he hears me beaking in the kitchen about how I won and ‘wore him down’ then I will find myself on the first plane ride out of camp. I tactfully didn’t respond to that one but just confirmed the room number and walked out the door.

I instantly went to the cabin, packed my bags and went to my new room. Guess they didn’t tell the guy that was in the room that he had to be out by 7:30am because he was still in the bed when I got there. Thankfully that was only for the morning since when I went back around 2pm the room was empty and cleaned. So now here I sit in the main camp with wireless (not sure how long since it does go down on a regular basis with the IT guy in camp), laundry room only two doors down and one bathroom with two showers only three doors down and another bathroom of 5 showers is about half a hallway down. It is farther away from the bathrooms than my old permanent room was but it is WAAAAY closer to those amenities than the stupid cabin was.

One final thing about the whole cabin issue that happened was during supper Radio was talking to the 1st and 2nd cook when Radio waves me over and says “come here quick”. I go over thinking they have seen one of the new girls in camp and are going to make some perverted comment or something about her. When I get there Radio says “cause you were complaining so much about the cabins, all the cabins are now getting landline internet access to them. You want to move back?” I could see the 1st and 2nd cook smiling and Radio was obviously baiting me to beg him to go back. I played along and in my best pleading and begging voice went “landline? Seriously? Oh please can I move back. I definitely want to go back”. The 1st cook looked at me confused and Radio went “seriously?” I dropped the pleading and answered him back sarcastically “hell no, the cabins are a freaking joke. It is stupid to walk from the cabin to the main camp at 6am watching for bears over your shoulder. I would never want to move there again” and I walked away. Last they said about that was at the end of the shift when Radio was leaving he called to the 1st cook and said “have a good night and try not to get eaten by bears on your way to the cabin”. Really lame on his part I think.

So now I sit in my room with internet, TV, cupboards and cabinets. Now just have to get groceries and we are good.