Tuesday, July 6, 2004 Dentist - root canal #2. Thursday, July 8, 2004 My first DVD burned today. Did the tutorial DVD and then on for chapter 13 of The Stranger. Not too bad, but learning. Haircut, Friday - Sunday, July 9-11, 2004 Worked 1/2 day, and then drove up North. Friesen helped work on my truck (tie-rod ends, welded some holes on the inside of the bed.) I changed the oil and put on the topper a little better. Saturday I fixed his electrical (wiring for the water pump needed armored cable) and then went to Hundabey's and cut down some trees. Monday, July 12, 2004 At the office alone this week - Andrew / Jim / Leslie are teaching at camp, Paul / Kathleen are in Nebraska, John and Janice are in India. Worked on moving the timelines over to a single file to master. I see I'm behind again on this journal. Spent the morning getting ready for the trip, and the afternoon working on closed captioning, trying to get a DVD burn w/ the subtitles on it before I left. Didn't finish. After a candle-lit dinner at the Kary's with the Caush's (the power went off due to a lightning strike,) I headed North to Wetaskiwin. John's friend Kevin was there too, and we took a quick trip to the North Quarter to try out the Jeep. Tuesday, July 20, 2004 Left Wetaskiwin at about 8:00 AM and stopped at Co-Op to buy an inverter, which we will discuss later on. Also stopped at the Building Center to buy some thermoplastic - building adhesive - to caulk the windows of the topper. One more stop - the bank - to deposit a check. Ok, time to hit the road. It was a beautiful day, though the sun beat me up a bit. No one here is complaining! You'll have to flip through the pictures.... Wednesday, July 21, 2004 Another good day for driving. Up at 5:50 I guess it was, and drove to about 9:00. It is interesing to say the least, to drive, watch your speed, check the outside temp, monitor the elevation off the GPS, plug in the inverter / battery charger to charge the camera batteries, take some video footage, shoot some pictures (pluging in / unplug the GPS to the camera each time), drink a Coke, eat some Mini Wheats, pay attention to some lessions that are on MP3, check the map, and answer phone calls where people ask - "Are you driving safely?" -- all at the same time. It makes it harder when the inverter fries your battery charger. Plus, when that is youre only means of making your digital camera work, it' puts a little twist on things. I'll have to call in and see if someone can buy one from B&H and bring it with them on Saturday... there's enough time to make it work if it all goes well. I didn't want to stop, but felt like sand in the eyes. You want to keep going because it's still daylight, and practically no one is on the road. Most of the people driving here are on vacation, so they don't need to make good time. There's quite a bit of traffic during the middle of the day, but morning / evening it's very sparce. Thursday, July 22, 2004 Up and running at 6:00 I thought. Not sure of what time zone that was. But had about 6 hours of driving that day before I made it to Slana. The GPS waypoint that I had for Slana was way off, so it wasn't much help - I can't remember how I got the point in the first place. So I drove till I found a store (after I thought I passed Slana) and come to find out it was the General Store that everybody talks about. Jay was there and his son Jason, as well as Jay's wife (I forgot her name- actually I don't think I caught it in the first place.) Bill came in for a bit, and I met him. I stayed there and talked w/ them for 15 min or so, before them calling Connie, and finding where they were, and then giving me directions to Brad's place. So, I arrived at around 11:00 or so local time, and started working. Lunch at Brad's 'rental' house, in which time Bill stopped in here too. I asked why he was following me around, and he said that he was just checking up on me. Neat fellow. And then back to work till about 6:15. We went back to the rental house, I grabbed a shower and then we took off to Bible study at the church. Met Bill, Ken, and a few others (9 of us total, including Brad, Connie, Kim and myself.) It was a good time, though I was getting tired by the end... It rained, w/ a double rainbow when church was over. Came back to Brad's for pizza, then I went home to sleep at the other (3rd) house. This last house belongs to a fellow that is letting us (the team) stay there, as he's trying to sell it. Friday, July 23, 2004 Got up at 7:30 or so, had some peanut butter and jelly fish sandwiches, read a bit and came to the jobsite. Finished wiring the garage (as much as I could - still need the panel and some 12-3 wire that will come w/ the team from Anchorage.) For lunch we went back to the rental, and Brad had a ton of phone calls to make before we could go. No worries, part of the job. Back on the job, once the garage was done, went upstairs and Brad and I finished framing in the master bedroom walls. There were a lot of little things to take care of - and it took till 8:00 to finish up everything, ready to wire. Came home (rental house - hereinafter called "house #2"), took a shower and wrote all this up. Saturday, July 24, 2004 Brad and I drove to Tok, to get a load of lumber. George Pines
is the man that runs the place. Came home, dropped off the trailer, and I went to dig a new hole for the outhouse, while Brad went home to study for Sunday. Took a nap, then went to Brad's for dinner. Stayed up and talked, then went home and to bed. Sunday, July 25, 2004 Went to church - there was about 8 people there this morning, and it was a good time for sure. Connie bringing the team back today - arrived at about 2-3:00 pm. Monday, July 26, 2004 Start work w/ the team today. But first - breakfast! Tuesday, July 27, 2004 Wednesday, July 28, 2004 Thursday, July 29, 2004 Work, then the fish-wheel Friday, July 30, 2004 This was our trip to Valdez, on the coast. Saturday, July 31, 2004
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