Summer time

Hello everyone from sunny Alaska!!! Sunny Alaska you say, why doesn't Chris live in a temperate rain forest?? Why yes I do, but by now everyone knows of the anomalous life of Chris Koepp.

It's been sunny for about a week, a nice change from the tragic weather of the last few months. I haven't got my good camera yet so I don't have visual stimulation for you yet but it will come.

It's funny, the last few months up here were pretty much the same everyday weather wise, it sucked, I felt like I was living in Groundhog Day. Every day was the same, same people, same weather, except for the bi-weekly dumping of snow. Now the town of Seward has come alive and people are showing up and snow caps are receding.

Well I'm going to go, I needed to start blogging to back into it. I hope this is the first of many summer blog posts.

Sorry folks, I knowhow long it's been..........

Hello everyone..........I know I have been a bad blogger. But my computer has been in been in the shop. You see I have found out that it is quicker to order parts for a Ferrari from Italy than to fix a computer with no anti-virus.

No anti-virus you say?? Well I never thought I would need it seeing that I only cruise porn sites and download free music. Who ever thought that you could get viruses from sites like that???

At least I know now!!!

So other than that life is getting back to normal, I am done in Alaska until April, duck camp was pretty good, except for the fact that I get phone service there now so that sucks. I really enjoyed being cut off for that month.

Now I need to figure out my winter plans. Looking at Costa, Vegas or my parents couch. I really can't make up my mind.

I need to decide soon because my "I"ll wait until thankgiving" window is almost up. I figure I decide and leave all in about a three day window anyhow........it's how I do everything else.

Hey, that looks cool and I'm gone. Classic travelers ADD.

Well I will trh to be a little more on the ball with my blogging for a few weeks, at least until I make a decision as to the next few months

later

I made it everybody!!!!

pools in a galcier near mt. denali, pretty cool......
Pretty cool sea day island shot.
One stereotype down for seal, but do they play horns in the circus?? Ah, no!!

So I survived the summer in Alaska!!!! I bet you all are all wondering what the worst part of the summer was, was it being on a island for four months with born again christians, no. Was it having a crazy man hating manager, no, was it not drinking all summer but still getting a bigger beer belly, not really.

It was the trip home. It can only be explained face to face it was so frustrating and even still I will have to really know you well to give you the whole low-down. 31 hours that felt like 31 hours, underground, buried in glass, as bedding in a pig barn. Yea, really. I think I'm going to drive for now on. Everywhere!!!

Oh well, not to dwell on that any more. The people I worked for were very happy with the job I did and want me to come back, they actually gave me a stunning evaluation that would even make Uncle Tim proud.

You see that is what I use for my merits, there is good, then there is really good, then you have holy shit Chris good and after that, you guessed it, it's Uncle Tim good.

For few in my life have had the grasp of articulate understanding that Uncle Tim has, when he talks the words singe themselves into your memory, his typed word dances upon your intellect and his ideas make you feel as if your a fool for trying to out wit him. And all is done without any wisp of pretense or judgment. He is amazing.

Hey, Tim, I may need some for work for a month or so to save extra Costa Rica money.......

SO I have decided to put my energy into going to Costa for the winter, I was going to stay around here and try to be with a wonderful woman but I don't think she's ready for me, either that or she was a figment of my imagination for she is way too good for me. There is a possibility of us being together still but we will see. I may surprise you all with a sudden "I ran to vegas and got married" blog but each day it wanes a little more.

I do hope we get together still...............

Lets see, what else, I am drawing a blank for now. I didn't sleep while traveling today, actually for the last 36 hours so I better go and I will be a more prolific bloggerin the next few weeks, up till' duck camp that is and then there will be a gap

So enjoy the stimulation and I will have a whole folder for you to look at soon

good night
Chris

Taa Daa.....

Hello everyone, I just want to start out by saying I'm sorry for the big gap in blogs. The internet is back off on the island. Just when I was getting a fan base and I leave ya all hangin'.

I apologize to you all.

SO what has been going on in the life of Chris lately you ask?? Well I would love to tell you I have been jumping from mountains and killing huge bull Moose with my bare hands and cooking for the Queen of England but I have mostly been skipping rocks and reading books trying to pass the time until the season is over so I can go to duck camp and spend even more time on a remote island cooking meals.

It is very interesting where life takes you. If I was told five years ago when I graduated culinary school that I would spend the three years of my life living on parcels of land that are smaller than the property my high school owns I would have thought you were and idiot.

I thought I would be jumping from mountains and killing bull Moose with my bare hands and cooking for the Queen Mother.

Go figure.

So there is three weeks left in my summer adventure, pretty cool. I have come away from this summer a very deep affection for Alaska, I am definitely going to be back to this state again. I recommend everyone comes up here at some point in their life.

I have little time today but you will have all the bloggings in the world from me soon as I am going to spend the winter on my parents couch eating Dutch Crunch potato chips and drinking diet Mountain Dew in my underware. I figure that my parents miss me so much they won't mind me doing that. I'll run it by Dad first I guess.


Have a good day folks.

I think I'm steppin' up in the world

Hello everyone,

I apolagize for the gap in entertainment I have left you with.

As I sit here belly typing this blog to you with the dappled Alaskan sunlight playing across the knotty pine walls of my bedroom, the sounds of my lodge patrons playing on the stone beach out my window, hearing eagles and gulls making their hunting calls out in the cove I realize that I have not broken a sweat one time this summer.

What the hell is that!!!!!

It's frickin' August and it hasen't been over 74 degree yet. What the hell was I thinking??? I am actually more pale right now than I was in December!!! December!!!!

I have worn shorts twice this summer and I was too cold both times.

Man, I Need to go to Cost Rica or Hawaii for the winter so I don't go into a coma or anything.

Wow, I sure hope by the end of the summer I gain some freakin' life experience or something, anything more than my new belly typing skills.

I know the summer ain't over so I give it some hope put what the hell, it's cold up here, and rainy.

So I am done venting. As I sit here watching the dappled sunlight play off the knotty pine........

Three month old butternut squash for 1000$ Bob.....

What do you get when the warehouse orders four cases of butternut squash in mid-may?

A. Nice aged Kobe squash?

B. Good doorstops for the whole summer?

C. More squash than any human can possibly use in three months?

D. Your own build at home, do it yourself walk-in cooler petri dish?

If you answered C. and D. your right for one 1000.00$

I have ran my beef dish twice as much as anything else but to no avail, I had two cases go bad. I asked for four squash in May and was sent forty per case. Thats about 160 squash, I would be orange like and Ommpa Loompa! I wonder if there is anyway I can get that pulled off my food cost, maybe tell them it was ordered for a Halloween potato gun or something.

So I have a travel writer from Gourmet magazine on the island tonight. I hope I don't get nervous and spit on her or start to swear like a ten year old or something. I would hate to use my last good squash and not get a good review.

So I may make a major food publication soon. You will all know if I do because you will hear the wails of recognition from here, I'll sound like a baby Humpback that lost it's mother or something.

I should probably get back down to the kitchen, I just needed to relax for a little while.

Have a good day.

Top O the world ma......

Well hello everyone, I hope all of you are doing good today.

Well it has officially happened, my belly has gotten so big I can lay flat on my back and type in bed.

I can see the whole keyboard and everything. It is much easier on the hands, I may have found an amazing carpal tunnle treatment. But this blog is being brought to you from a position I don't think anyone will ever want to see me in.

I do have to stick my belly out a ways to make it work but I'm sure one more year as a chef and I'll have my computer sliding up off my belly and giving me bloody lips.

That would be a funny conversation, Hey Chris, what happened to your tooth? Um, I chipped it, Oh no, how? Um, I was in a fight with a biker, Oh no, hey, was his name Dell? I don't know, why? Well you have what looks like the word Dell bruised into your lower lip..............

I'll need that foam lining stuff you use in your drawers to put on my stomach for grip.

Anyway, so I climbed my first mountain yesterday. It wasn't what I expected. So any of you who really know me know I have read almost every Louie L'amour western book, and I always had this image of a man cresting his first mountain in my head.....

Head held high, thumbs tucked into his waistband, eyes squinting in the sun, gazing into the far distance, a feeling of pride and manhood flowing through him.

Yea, not in my case, I was flailing all around, looking for my water bottle only to find it was empty, looking at the ground for a rock collecting a little dew, feeling like I was never going to make it back home to my dress collection and lipgloss.

Ahhhhh Alaska, it will weed out the real ones to the posers thats for sure, but I did compose myself enough to take a few pictures, I will try to load them and you all can see the amazing view I had.

have a good day
C