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

Oh man what a weird dream!!!!!!!!!

I just woke up and I remembered this dream.............

It started out with a phone call from Lynn, the island manager that my grandma Alys was coming to dinner so I jump on the back of a moped with a 7 foot tall mormon kid named Jason to drive through rush hour traffic and to a concert hall of some kind.

I started prepping dinner and another mormon girl named Andrea and a deckhand kept carrying tables past me as I was in my bedroom prepping dinner for my grandma and guests. Suddenly the island g.m. runs up and tells me it's 8:30 and I didn't have dinner ready and I run down to a catering company unloading food into my lodge with people walking in the other side. The g.m. handed me one of those really tall paper chefs hats and another to my assistant but I'm taller so when I walked around mine would fall off and Shawn my assistant looked like he was the chef. And I then looked at the tv and saw what I think was the E! network covering my grandma Alys entering my lodge, she was in a convertible sports car and she had a very cool shawl that was covering her dress and she whipped off her shawl in very dramatic fashion and under it was a very vibrant blue dress.

So the cameras are on my grandma walking into the lodge and then everyone was going through the line and I go to check the line and it's pizza, mashed potatoes with gravy pre added, pre portioned bags of Stroganoff noodles (I hate Stroganoff) and salty meatballs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats when I woke up.

Holy crap Batman!!

Alaskin summer

Hello everyone, I hope all is well in the land of warm. There are a few things I have noticed lately while living in Alaska,

1. It's not really warm, especially in the morning.

2. Alaskan construction is sort of skimpy, especially when you can sit on your bed and see outside through cracks in corners.

3. I think summer is here and gone.

4. I'm really cold right now.

Right now I am leaning toward going to Hawaii for the winter.

But with that said I am loading the photos of the sunset from last night, I hope they load. Beaming a signal 12 miles over rough water makes for tough photo blogging.

I hope it shows up, if not I will try again.

I will come back when I have something funny for you.

Later.

Melatonin and sleeping masks

a boat getting buzzed by a humpback

northwestern glcier
old ass compressed glacier ice

I think thats how you spell it. All I know is i bought some. I have not really slept in two months and it is starting to catch up to me. I'm not really that normal to start with but put the cocktail of propane (a few of my pilot lights don't light) and no sleep together and you get Chris mixed with the dude in Predator only I have more issues. I

So I was talking to Danielle and she told me to buy Melatonin, after purchasing it a spoke to my assistant chef and he said and I quote" Oh yea, thats what all Alaskans take during the summer, shit,I have two huge bottles of it upstairs, you didn't know it's almost impossible to sleep up here without it. I d should have told you I guess". unquote.

SO after I came out of my red fury to I find out I had been holding him by the throat and punching him in the neck for five minutes we both had a good laugh. So he thought, I was still holding him by the throat and punching him in the neck in the back of my head.

So I have a bottle of Melatonin on it's way. I hope it helps. I really don't mind the no sleeping thing, it was the being awake and hearing everyone else who had taken Melatonin snoring and giggling in their blissful sleep thing that really bothered me.

I also bought a sleeping mask too. I wanted a pink one with a fuzzy border around the outside like them ladies on 80's tv shows holding a poodle yelling for Richard, but they only had black ones so again I don't get to purchase exactly what I wanted.

That seems to be a trend in my life. I see something somewhere and want to buy it, I look and look but can't find exactly what it was so I settle for something close. I then see my reflection somewhere and realize I look stupid. Great, again I settle for something I didn't want.

I'm sure the pink one would look better.

I'm guessing you people out there aren't telling anyone about my blog, I was hoping my blog would take off and Bobby Flay would see it and be like," I would love to work with that funny genius" and everything in my life would be easy from there but it doesn't seem you want to share me with the world people.

So goes the cycle of those who love you holding you back, I have seen it before. My Uncle Tim is the best example.

You see, I was working for Uncle Tim during culinary school. He was very supportive of me until the day I gave him a piece of seafood sausage and from there on he never wanted me to go on to full time cooking. He wanted me to be his carpentry, sausage making cook slave. You see, I am an amazing carpenter and Uncle Tim knew he not only was going to lose any chance of ever getting that sausage again but he was going to lose the 300,000.00$ a year I made him on the twenty dollars an hour he paid me. He had a peach of a deal going for him I tell ya!!

Where can you find someone who makes that much money for you and will cook for you too?

I just really love my Uncle Tim I tell ya, he's the person who inspired me to keep being myself. Let your freak flag fly he would say to me, let your freak flag fly.

But now I am traveling the world cooking in exotic lands and making sausage for random strangers. So is the cycle of life.

With that folks I am going to leave you with a few life points to ponder and I hope if you run across Bobby Flay or Alton Brown, or anyone who can get me back to dry land for a year, or even anyone holding a Betty Crocker cookbook looking confused you will send them my way and I'll try to mold my career around them.

And Uncle Tim, again I'm sorry I had to leave you with a house payment, two car payments and all your bills but I needed to spread my wings and fly man. Fly.

Have a good day everybody.

It's likefacebook whats your birthday mean application really knows me.....

You never live your life in the way others want you to. You are an independent individual who loves challenges and excitement. You are ready to ace with the result of your decision. You are usually the one your friends count on. Your Love, Because you love excitements, you occasionally get involved in forbidden love affairs. You may fall in love with a married person and no one can stop you from making progress. You are very charming, although you might not realize it.

Except the love thing, I don't really fall in love. Especially with the married sort, maybe girls way too young for me but not married gals.

some stimulation for you

My first dining room
south side
everyone loves a sea otter!!!
Dope ass mountain shot, I climbed that!!!!! No I didn't actually.
My Lodge from the water
How small the lodge is compaired to the mountain behind it. You can't even see the top that day.

Kalua pork and maui onion dip

Hello everybody

I hope all of you are well, I am doing good. I am well into my days off and have been fully relaxed for about seventeen hours. It's funny when your I high energy, high stress sort of guy you feel when the stress breaks and things relax. I was just getting out of the bathroom this time and I felt my shoulders relax and my eyes un-squint.

Ahhhh, to be relaxed. here is more to it than you would think. I get inspired, I think of new foods to experiment with and ways to improve my self-being. I decided this morning while I was laying in bed relaxed and happy reflecting on my relaxed and happyness that I am going to start to speak from my chest.

You see, I just got a new camera and it has video. I have taken a few videos of things and I have discovered that I not only speak from my nose but I am very hard to understand when I am speaking. So I remembered a time when I was young and my mother was watching "Bold and the Beautiful" and one of the actors said to another how when you speak from the chest it gives you power and finess.

We will see what happens. I could always use more power and finess. That may be the reason I am like I am is because I never took the advice of Kyle or Roger or stone or whatever his name is. So if I call any of you anytime soon and you think you won a sweepstakes or that one of the Baldwin brother is on the other line just don't freak on my when you hear no Josh, Josh, it's Chris. Not Alex Baldwin, np I'm not Ed McMann Josh, it's your brother Chris. I'm sorry man, I know I should have told you but read my blog man, you would have been tipped off dude.

Family life is hard enough without jerking peoples emotions around like that.

So I am taking open ideas as to where I should winter this year. Hawaii, Austin, Texas, Arizona, Thailand or Colorado to learn to ski.

All are fine with me really, I can't make up my mind. I still have like five months to figure it out so I'm not really stressed to bad. Maybe south Florida too, I want to golf and see chicks in skimpy clothes. Sorry those conservative readers but what can I say. I understand girls in Ski pants are pretty hot too.

Oh well, I am at a transient computer today so I don't have any pictures to add but the one on the top of the previous post is my lodge where I work, I had a few of the dining room and some from the boat coming in one day so you could see the scale of the mountain directly behind the lodge but the computer hookup on the island still sucks and I couldn't send that much stimulation to all of you.

But just you all wait, will someday soon stimulate you to the point where you'll get extra grey hairs, your crowsfeet will thicken, your reading glasses will never fit right on your nose again. Yes, Alaska is that beautiful, and I think I have a way of capturing that beauty on digital canvas that would make a Killer whale cry.

I guess I need to go pretend that I am doing something somewhere. I really just walk around and kick rocks on my days off. I have become a really good rock kicker this summer. I have hit 23 of 32 sewer grates lately.

Not bad considering the ingrown toenails I have been cursed with all my life. It cut my soccer career short you know. My brother in law had his removed. Yea, the whole big toe nail on both big toes are gone. I might just do that too. I am looking into starting a pro rock kicking into sewer team and making up rules and videoing it on my camera and putting it on youtube. I bet with three years I will bet corporate backing.

Ya, I need to pull them big toe nails right off. I will look weird when I wear flip flops but I don't look that normal limping around once or twice a month with nail spikes trying to burst out of the tips of my toes.

I guess I need to pick my battles. It is some really nice me time when I get out of the shower and grab a steak knife (and I'm not telling which one either) and dig out the spike when it's still soft. The relief you feel is amazing, it's almost like when you see a baby deer or a morning dew drop, you feel almost weightless for a minute. I had a collection of ingrown toenail spikes in a jar for a while but thought it was pretty fuckin' creepy and tossed it. What if a hot chick found it? Yea, thats why I don't collect anything. Emotional scars and baseball hats are the only thing I need to have more that one of.

So that was an interesting paragraph, do you see many like that very often. I feel like I just got off the pych chair. But cronic ingrown toenails do suck. And my damn soccer career being cut so short really sucks. I could have been big.

O.K. folks, I need to go

I hope next time you can open up to me like that

Well, have a good day
Chris

So this job is starting to feel like a job, damn!!

Yep, you read correct people, the rose colored glasses have fallen off, the fat lady has sung, the last piece of cake has been eaten. My job as Fox Island private chef has done what so many have done before..........it's become work. Granted I may have one of the three best views out my office window on earth but I have seen it one too many times, the phone ringing sends cringes down my spine, I wake up and hope the day is over quick, I try to find ways to undermind upper management.

Working in paradise is still work.

So what now?? I could always sneak around at night and drink beer, but I don't drink alone.

I could start running and hiking everyday, but then I wouldn't have that to put off anymore and I would have to find something else to procrastinate.

I could torture the little christian kids who work at the salmon bake with filthy language and sexual inuendos...........that will work for a few weeks.

If anyone sends me good (but very filthy) jokes I will come to your house and cook you a five course dinner for free.

So with the next few weeks figured out I need to move on to other things to ramble about.

I don't want anyone to think I really don't enjoy this job I have, I do. It's awesome to meet all these people and exchange small parts of their vacations in a short dose, shit, thats the only way anyone has ever or will ever like my moody, tempermental ass. Is in short doses. so those of you reading this who I have met in Alaska, feel lucky you haven't had the chance to spend more than three days with me. You wouldn't like me. I'm not kidding. You have definitely seen the best of me.

I wouldn't like me if I met myself. I'm an ass. And I think I'm funny. I have met people like myself before and walked away shaking my head thinking wow, that guy is going to have a long life. Poor asshole.

Sorry I'm cussing a little more than usual today, it's been one of those days.

Right as I was starting to plate dinner tonight I look up and see an Orca whale breaching in the harbor, abut two hundred yards from the lodge.I made the mistake of saying, wow,look guys!!! Twenty minutes later, after the chicken had been in the oven holding and drying out and the green beans tossed with sea salt and toasted nuts were soggy the group in the dining room came back in for dinner to a chef feeling some mixed feelings of dejection and frustration at the forgotten meal.

It was still good, just not as good. I figured out a new sauce today, I have been putting a simple garlic cream on the chicken but I stepped it p tonight ti a sundried tomato pesto cream and ooooooweeeeee, that sauce should get me sex some day.

Well, I have ben going long enough, I need sleep. 5:30 comes too quick.

I'm going to try to load some photos tonight too. Well see how it works.

Have a good day folks.

I'm a real ass.

There beamin' that there signal twelve miles Batman!!!

Hello everyone, I am bloging to you from Fox Island Alaska! We have the employee inter net working so yee-haa! They beam it in over radio signals. Crazy Alaskans.

I also got my camera to work with my computer, sort of. I can't get the video to work but the photos do.I wouldn't want to overstimulate any of you anyhow. I hope the pictures carry the whole twelve miles to complete this blog.

I just tried to overstimulate all of you with adding photos and id didn't work.

I don't know if I can send as much data as a photo blog will need but I'll try again. Otherwise I will add folders when I'm in town.

It didn't work.

I'll try again.

Nope, no pictures today. Little by little it will work. If it was too easy I would thinkI was living downtown somewhere, not on a remote Island in the Gulf of Alaska you know?? Do ya, yah.

SO I'm going to start dinner and see if this even loads.

I'll figure it all out next time.

Later

Whale tale

Hello everyone, I hope all of you are doing good. I'm well, I can't get my computer and my camera compatible yet so there are no good pictures yet but it's in the works.

So I went out on the tour that the guests in my lodge go on today and it was pretty impressive, we saw several Humpback Whales, Orca(killer) whales, sea lions, puffins, a lot of seals sitting on iceburgs (I always thought that was a wives tale but they really do it) but the coolest thing and I have video of it was we were at the northwestern glacier as it calved about a three ton chunk of ice and it avalanched into the ocean making a really cool sound and some killer waves, I hope the audio comes out well.

So that was my day. Pretty fun, long trip though, it was a 9 hour tour. I think just about everyone took a nap at one point or another. It was a good day for a nap.

I promise I will have a but load of pictures for you next time folks. But I just made it to the internet cafe in time to put up a short post and I need to go. I will be more exciting next time.

Have a good day wherever you all are today.

See ya

Goatee flambe anyone???

There used to be a pretty good amount of hair here, and I know it is between my eyes but it kept me warm. It is now bald.
Goatee and nose hair are strugglin', and I recently invested in a nose hair trimmer too.
Really creepy picture of me but I am only exaggerating the look a little bit, it is really lopside.

Hello everybody, as if I have three hundred readers to this blog. I really only can confirm one person, Ryan my brother in law as a reader. Thank you for your support Ryan. I am a big fan of your blog too, always love the Anya photos and the sushi boat made my mouth water.

So back to the rambling, goatee flambee people. I was lighting my grill the other day and it flashed on me, this is the first time I have had this happen. It is interesting how the smell if burnt hair will stick with you for a few hours, actually when I took a shower the next morning I got another dose of my chin wiskers, eyebrows and eye lashes, the hair between my eyes, a few hairs that were sticking out from under my hat, sideburns.............you get the idea.

I do look a few years younger with my eyebrows plucked, and a little more interested in what people are saying to me with the one eyebrow now singed to a rainbow shape and the other to almost as thick as the wire thing you use to close the bread bag. People just keep talking and talking thinking I can't get enough of their story about the little feather that was blowing down the street in front of them.

And the story about my friends grandma was just a little less boring than watching a dentist read a magazine in a DMV lobby. But the eyebrows kept them going.

So with that said I have an announcement to make, my new camera should be delivered today so my next time in town I should have several good Alaska photos for you, or some real high quality photos of me flexing in the bathroom mirror, well see.

So the people I have been meeting at the lodge are really cool, I have already got a lot of email addresses and phone numbers. People telling me about cool places I should work at during the winter and such. I should probably start thinking about what I will do for a winter job a little more seriously, but I am going to wait it out this time. I will have two months to figure it out as I sit on my parents couch in my underwear with a bag of potato chips and a half empty two liter of diet Mountain Dew..........................Sorry Dad, I'm just kidding. But that is a little funny.

Well my coffee is wearing off and I'm running out of things to say, lets see, let me think, food prices, holy cow batman is food expensive here. I will be photographing menus and adding them to a running list of things that turn your hair gray. I am open to anyone sending me photos of these things in life you see and suddenly realize another one jumped ship. But back to my point, Food prices.

At the Black Pelican we had these little pre battered fish nuggets call child Rockfish bites, we served three pieces of these, a handful of fries and a pickle for 6.25 or so, I ordered what was called a "halibut burger" the other day for 10.00$ This "burger" consisted if TWO pieces of kids rockfish and a bun with onion and some shitty fries, I know for fact that a case of these cost 14.00, so in Alaska it probably cost 26.00$, you get 75 pieces of fish in a case.

They are making 370.00 off a case of fish, take out three packs of buns, three onions and two bags of shitty fries and they still make over 320.00 off the case of basically fish rib meat.

And I thought used car salesmen were shady as shit.

AND I will add that this "halibut burger" was sold from a roadside bus that is only open for three months of the year. A whole lotta overhead there folks.

Whatever.

So now the coffee has really worn off so I will go down and see if the camera is here yet and try to take some photos today and post them tomorrow morning before I go back to the island.

So I'll be back when I hit dry land again Batman and till' then stay cool.

later

Thats just how the pork tenderloin crumbles

Hello esteemed family and friends. I hope all of you are well. I am doing good. So I went out on the town last night. I met another six people from Wisconsin, damn there are a lot of cheeseheads up here. I guess I will have to keep my sexy chef belly to remain an individual. individual. individual. I have never typed that word before, it has a lot of i's in it. But I guess I have to make sure I get 4000 calories a day so I don't start to blend in too much around here.

So I met this girl up here but she is pretty butch, imagine that batman, a firefighting, military brat butch girl in Alaska. She must think I am a submissive type because she tried to order me to take her out last night. That was a turn on. Oh man.

I don't think she'll be coming home for Christmas this year.

So I need a camera. Does anyone out there have any suggestions? I want it to be the last camera I will have to buy for 10 years if you get my drift.

So my first several services went well, my food was very well received and I got a few standing ovations which is pretty odd. I was contemplating taking a bow while they were clapping but I then thought back to the days of Suzuki violin lessons and thought that would be weird. I just stood there and blushed, and said thank you.

SO it really doesn't get dark here, it gets dusk around 1:30 then starts getting light out again. It's weird. Almost as weird as butch EMT/firefightering girls that order you to take them to dinner and go home to have military style sex, which I REALLY don't want to know what that is. Or what was going through her head when she said "military style", I shudder. And I thought I was a man.

So I guess I will go now, I need to go back to the warehouse and relax a little. (the warehouse is the employee housing they provide us when were off the island)
I will do another tomorrow. I really have nothing to do during the day but workout and blog so I will talk to you all later.

Peace

Say goodbye to pavement Chris...........

Big ol' Octopus that was on the deck of a fishing boat the other day. six feet tall, hooked him trollin' for Halibut.
Bucket of Octopus, pretty cool how they don't have a bone in their body but could totally wreck your day scuba diving.

So this is my last day in town for awhile. I was hoping to be here when my food order came in but it did not show on this mornings truck, which means it will be on Wed. truck and I'll get it Wed. afternoon and put it away and start preping for the next night dinner right away. Cutting it a little close but at least I won't be bored.

So my beef tenderloins haven't shown up so I will be serving Pollo for my first night dinner, Pollo being Chicken for those of you who haven't working in a kitchen with Spanish speaking people.

I have a joke for yall', -- what do you get when you cross a mexican and an octopuss?

I don't know either but it sure can wash dishes!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!

get it,, all those suction cups could grab it's own plate and zoom, your done..............HAHAHA!!!

O.K., so I wanted to serve my pork dish as second choice but I have a no mushroom-er coming in Friday so I need to serve my most mushroom laiden dish when she's not on the island. So I guess it's
Blue Corn Tortilla Crusted Chicken Fricasse with Wild Mushroom Risotto and Green Beans tossed with Sea Salt and Toasted Almonds Finished with a Seared Garlic Sauce

Let me know if that sounds good and balanced right, I am biased.

Well I guess I need to go, the cofeeshop is filling up and I'm getting the your not local and your in my seat look from a girl with a lot of metal in her face...........and a creepy tatoo, thats me saying it's creepy folks, Mr. Openminded Koepp. It is creepy, I'll try to snap a pic with my phone on the way out. Could I get tetanus from a headbutt? It would be me being the first case of Emo-violence induced tetanus. I might just smile and walk by. Yup, I will. I think she knows I'm blogging about her, maybe the shit in her face is brain radar like what Major League Baseball
has homed in on Springfeild.

Whatever, I must be a little more bored than I thought.

SO I will let yall' know how it's going when I get a chance. Oh, I forgot, I may become Mormon!!

I work with a few mormon kids on Fox Island and they arn't weird at all!! I don't think they would marry 11 year olds and live in a compound or anything, they actually seem pretty well balanced compared to other kids who grew up concealed from society in a church setting, I.E.-me, I'm still a lot weirder that the Mormon kids........... Damn Mormons. Makin' me look weird..........damn Mormons.

Thats kind of fun to say really Damn Mormons that is, it's like a stress reducer, I need to blame shit on someone you know. I live on an Island folks. The only therapy is blame. I just can't turn on Dr. Phil and let myself cry for an hour every day. Damn Dr. Phil.

O.K., I'm sorry, back to reality. Noe more goofing off today. But my original point was them Mormon kids are pretty stand up folks. I could use a little more standupedness. Mine is still in the developmetal state.

O.K., the metal faced Emo girl just dropped her computer while trying to stand up and type against her leg so I will be the shining night and let her up.

Good bye all, good bye pavement, goodbye police sirens, goodbye billboards

later
chris

Holy temperate rainforrest Batman!!!

This is home Fox Island ALaska
One days rain, I took this photo at 11:30 P.M.!!
Dahls porpoise playing around the boat, see the white?
Sea Lions laying around
More Porpoise jumping around, cool lil' guys

Hello again people. So I am in town for a last stint until my first guests arrive on Thursday. I have a week of V.I.P.'s then I get to usual guests. My menu went through even better than I thought it would so thats cool. Now I just need to find a way to make producing high end food look hard and they will think I am earning what they are paying me.

Cause' folks, I make this shit look easy!

My first nights menu will be- Cumin Rubbed Beef Tenderloin over Roasted Butternut Squash and Dill infused Mashed Potato, Grilled Asparagus finished with a Wild Mushroom and Bourbon Sauce.

Two Tone Chocolate and Vanilla Creme Brulee with a Minted Fresh Strawberry coulis

Not too shabby for Alaska eh'?

Ah, um, it sort of rains here people, the sun came out for the first time in two weeks yesterday. This place is a lot prettier with sun. It rained for two weeks straight!! 45 degrees and rain. Thank god for Helly Hanson rainwear.

So folks, this place is awfully wild, there are animals like sea otter, Dahls pourpose, Orca (killer whales) seals, Sea Lions, I have pictures. You will probably see the before you read this anyway.

I will have no problems coming up here every summer for the next five years or so. So ladies......I am off the market till' I get the Alaska bug out of my system.

I am going to go but I will be back tomorrow.

be good all.

Alaska.....day three

Well folks, they haven't sent me home yet, I have had a few raised eyebrows looking my way but I'm still here.

I have a post office box now, it is- P.O. Box 3241 Seward AK. 99664

I am sharing it with a few girls I work with so make sure it has my name.

I have been sitting in training sessions for the last day and a half. OOOOOOOhhhhh thats fun.

So the sun goes down here but it is still light out. I have noticed that sleep is harder to come by. I only get about 4-5 hours a night. It is cool in the fact that I have the nature energy that goes with perpetual light. I may be a basket case by the end of the summer, if it's possible to frazzle this steel trap I have.

So the people I work with seem cool, there are a few shady ones but I could take them if push came to shove.
I have met several people from Wisconsin in the two days I have been here, all of them seem nice. I have met non from North Carolina which seems even nicer to me. Ha Ha.

This really is the most beautiful place I have ever seen, it is surrounded 360* with mountains, I counted 28 peaks yesterday, all snow capped on top and temperate pine rain forest on bottom. I have never seen anything like it. I have some pics following.

So I have another day of training tomorrow and I submit my menu then too. I hope it goes through. If I have people miro-managing my food it will make for a long summer. Cross your fingers people.

Hit Fox Island on Thursday and it will be good to be settled in for a spell. I have been homeless long enough.

So people I am going to go, I am not really in the blogging mood anymore. I hope you all are well until my next post. I will have WI-FI on the island so to contact me I would email me or facebook or whatever.

Till' next time
Chris

This is the view from my motel, it's a weak picture but I don't want to overstimulate you right away. Many more to follow.

Well, I made it.....

Well, I landed safely in Anchorage this morning around 1:00 Alaskan time. I should probably find out the name of this time zone so friends and family can curse it when I call them drunk at bar close when it's 4:30a.m. your time and 1:30 here. It will really piss you guys off but shit will it be funny a few years from now.

I can hear the conversation now- me:SUP DUDE? you:Chris, is that you? me:HELL YEA, MAN ALASKA IS SO F%#^^NG COOL, YOU SHOULD COME HERE, REALLY, WHEN CAN YOU GET TIME OFF WORK, IT'S SO COOL HERE, TALK TO YOUR BOSS TODAY. REALLY. you: What the f@!k is your problem Chris, it's 4:30 in the morning. me: IT"S 4:30? SORRY, BUT WHEN YOU COMMIN" UP MAN? REALLY? etc.....

Sorry Josh, it's inevitable.

The flight was good, long but it was cool flying over the desert and mountains between Minnesota and Arizona. I tell you what, the west sure has a lot less population from the air. Very few lights from the sky opposed to flying over the east. That was a cool observation.

I prefer the west myself.

I had the chance to see my niece and nephew this weekend. Holy crap are they gettin' big. Cute too.

Well, I need to get out of the motel and see whats up in Anchorage, I will be back soon.

Again, I apologize in advance to you all.