On 18 Nov 2003 10:27 PM, - Barnyard BOb - posted the following:

What happened to that goose?
Looked like a prime candidate for road kill...
heading for that very busy street.

I dunno. I went inside before my blood lust got the better of my
judgement.

Are you sure you were in Alaska?
I didn't notice any snow, dirt roads,
mountains, huskies, eskimos or igloos. g

I left Alaska and moved to Los Anchorage 2 years ago. I really miss
Cordova (pop. 2500 and falling), but I don't really miss what I was
doing for a living there, and am happy to have gotten out before the
seafood based economy totally collapses. I just got word that one of
the major fish processing plants, and the only one which operates year
round (read: non seasonal workforce and a big part of the winter economy)
is going to be shutting down.

I can see the mountains from my house in the other direction, the only
"igloos" I have ever seen were loaded on an Alaska Airlines 737 (that's
what Alaska calls their containers), I don't like dogs, the windshield
of the Jeep in the video is covered with plenty of evidence of dirt road/
alcan usage, and if I want to see eskimos I can drive downtown (I'm
gonna get flamed for that).

There are 3 major differences I notice between living in a small town,
and living in the big ****ty:

1) More traffic on my 5 minute drive to school/work.

2) I can't drive or walk for 20 minutes and be the only human being
around.

3) When I needed some oddball part to accomplish some purpose on one of
my projects, in Cordova I would exhaust the local possibilities in the
space of 30 minutes and then just mail order the damn thing. Here, I
can spend 2 days and 3 tanks of gas driving all over hell and back,
explaining my needs to complete morons and then listening to their
wrongheaded opinions for doing what they think I want to do, and still
not find what I am looking for before mail ordering the damn thing.
Unless you are trying to perform the exact same task as Joe Dip**** in
the same exact manner, the world is set against you.

The best things which can be said of my current location, is that I am
working on my project again after a 3 year hiatus, and I live close to
the road out of Anchorage. When/if I ever finish the Bearhawk I'll be
an hour and a half away from my old haunts. That's the right word too,
since it's well on its way to becoming a ghost town.

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