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