Sorry for the long lead times between posts. No excuse. Just ‘Sorry’. I have several days of nothing important to do so I’ll try to hurry things along. In real time, it’s now a couple days before the holidays in 2010. I’ve been here in Fairbanks now since May 21st staying at Ice Park, which is the venue for the International Ice Carving competition. I’m staying in a room they provided me with since I spent 1,000 hours working this summer as a camp host. I haven’t taken many pictures this time up here, and those I did I already, or mostly, posted in previous posts.
Some of the things that have happened up here this year aren’t really worth mentioning either. Pretty much went the same as in ’08 as far as running the RV park except this year I was also asked to help with the rental rooms they had upstairs in the main building. We had some deadbeats and I cleaned them out. Except for one guy, I kept missing the fact that he wasn’t paying. I thought he was current but he wasn’t. Really nice, personable guy but I missed the fact that he was a thief. Adding what I let him get away with, with what the other manager did amounted to $750, counting late charges. A very slippery guy, I found out. Something like that didn’t & won’t happen again. That is, if the RV park is even open next year. The Railroad has rights to the land, and they’ve been trying to push us off. But the state owns it and we’re petitioning the state legislature to allow us to stay here. It’s a great venue for both the winter ice carnival, and for an RV park. We won’t know until the legislature convenes in January. They only have a 90 day session, by law, so with all the other pressing matters they have to attend to, we might not get a hearing. Or a bill passed to grant the city the land, which would mean that a 22 year tourist attraction will cease to exist. No more ice sculptures. And I’ll not have a free place to stay so will probably head on back to the ‘Outside’. Maybe Idaho. Dunno at this point.
Well, Xmas is over. A total bore I’m afraid. Then New Years came and went. Stayed home and read a book. Did get an invite out but didn’t feel like it much.