peeing in the shower....and MISSING

ok, nearly a couple weeks so quick update. I have to say that the last week and a half in camp have been about the most relaxed days that I have had in camp as the 2nd cook in a long time. Why is this? the extra hand in the kitchen definitely has something to do with it that is for sure. For the first week we had Peter (new guy, northerner, works really well, quiet but will talk when you approach him, knows his way around the kitchen but a little slow on the knife but, and this is the most important thing, he never takes breaks. Works hard all the way through his shift. A totally new concept for most of the northerners that we hire here in camp) but he left last Wednesday and we got Nick back as the 1st cook so Chris went to the helper and I stayed 2nd. Still nice to see that they took a few of the duties that were originally mine.

On the plus side I am not running around doing about 5 things at once trying to get everything done and barely coming under the wire. On the down side, I realize how boring this job really is when you are not running around doing 5 things at once trying to get everything done and barely coming in under the wire. The work is like that annoying person in school that kept hanging around you all the time (if you are a girl that person was probably a boy who was 'in love' with you; if you are a guy chances are it was that geeky little guy that you were nice to and he idolized you and wanted to be just like you) and basically being a pain. When they were around you wished they would leave you along and you could get some peace and quiet but then once they left (either cause they took the hint finally or had to go away on vacation) you missed having them around and you realized how boring most of the days were. That is what it is like here. I am slightly bored doing the same old things and am going out of my way looking for more work to keep myself busy. For steak night instead of just regular baked potatoes I made 120 stuffed baked potatoes as well as the regular baked potatoes. However, still enjoying the chance to sit down for daily meals of lunch and supper.

As to other annoying things, for the first week the IT guy was out of camp and the internet worked. It was slow and went down for one evening but was up the next morning instantly. The IT guy came in and within 24 hours is was down on a regular basis and then yesterday it was down for a whole 24 hours. So yeah, that is one of the biggest annoyances so far.

Though this one is a close second. I can understand that some people pee in the shower. I accept that it is possible that when I go in to shower up here in camp that someone has probably peed in the shower before me. It is with this knowledge in my mind that makes me spray the shower down with the disinfectant that they supply and then run the shower for a couple minutes to hopefully wash as much of anything away as possible as well as wearing flip flops in the shower. I figure this is the extent that I could possible go minus bringing in shower cleaner and a sponge with me and cleaning the shower completely every morning. However, I find it really annoying, and slightly scary, when some people pee in the shower and MISS the shower completely. I can understand missing the toilet bowl first thing in the morning since it is early, your tired, the bowl is soooo small with one eye closed and the other half open with sleep and you are trying to hit it with a squirt gun. It is kind of like one of those carnival games where you have to squirt a clowns mouth that is about the size of a quarter from 6 feet away with a squirt gun. Very little actually gets inside the clowns mouth. However this is a shower. The guy is basically standing INSIDE the toilet bowl and he missed. I mean, either how tired or stupid can he be to miss the shower????? Of course I was about to walk into the shower room, saw this big pool of yellow water on the floor and instantly walked out of that shower room and went to another one. Someone else can clean up that mess.

So that is the fun that I am having in camp. 2nd cook for the next couple days and then I am supposed to go to nights as the baker. However that could change as we are getting a new 2nd cook hired that is supposed to start on Wednesday. On one hand I am going to say that he wont last long since we haven't had a 2nd cook come in and last in the position for long because it is so much work. However, with there being an extra person in the kitchen it might be slow enough that this new person will stick around. Will see what happens. Though I know for certain when it comes to baking I am not going to be doing anything funky or too extreme. Just going to do the small simple things like pies, chocolate cake, brownies, butter tarts and that sort of thing till I get them down pat.