Loooong weekend?

It's been a little odd around here this week. Sara's been home all week sick...well, home sick Monday and Tuesday by choice, and then yesterday and today because they sent her home Wednesday because her eye looked kinda funky. She went to the clinic today, more out of a desire to get the ok to go back to work, I think, but ended up "winning the clinic game" as she called it: mild eye, sinus, and ear infections, strep throat, and a cold on top of all that. So yeah, how Ike and I have managed not to really get sick (yet...knock on wood), I don't know.

As a side effect of having Sara home today, I had a few hours to poke around and retroactively apply "labels" to all the posts on this blog, all the way back through 2006. For some reason, the labels aren't showing up on the posts themselves, but the menu on the right should work if for some reason you ever wanted to go back and narrow down to all the entries I ever wrote about Loki, or snowmachining, or posts with video or anything like that.

Now if only I could post more often, eh?

Stay tuned...

Busy busy election day...but stay tuned for a video and pics of Isaac's first election and the party to follow. Once I get a chance to edit and upload everything...

Google-riffic

I decided to make up a quick Google Map of some of the points and places I've been mentioning here on this blog. I may incorporate it into the html of the site at some point, but for now it's just a post. So zoom, pan, and enjoy.

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Back in the Village...just a quick note

Woo! Got home yesterday late morning, took a nap, started the unpacking/settling in process...good times. Phone line wasn't transfered over like it was supposed to be my now, but it should be today...if I was supposed to call you when I got home, sorry!

I have a lot of backed-up posting (not to mention email) to catch up on, for sure...but it'll be a day or two until we're settled in enough to really make that a priority. But it'll get there. Oh, and FYI...we're back on filtered internet, which means no Facebook, no Myspace, no MSN Messenger for a while. So if you want to find me, drop me an email, comment here, or dust off the ol' AOL Messenger (AIM) if you have it...my contact name is 'przybby'.

Anyway, just wanted to say hi and let y'all know what's up. More to come, of course :-)

Technical note

Yes, I realize I still owe you guys a post on my first experience with subbing last week (plus Monday of this week, as it turns out...), but this is just a quick post regarding my triumphant return to the mystical, addicting land of MSN Messenger. Or rather, in reality, the short-livedness thereof.

As you may be aware if you've been online the last few days, I discovered over the weekend that dispite MSN messenger being blocked my the school's filter, the "web messenger" site still worked on my computer. So, after having given up on being able to easily keep in touch with a lot of you (email is a little harder for my brain to process, at least quickly...I know, I'm retarded), I thought I'd discovered a way around it and would be able to get on for a little while most days.

Well, it was working earlier today...ask Aaron, we talked a little about Trivia this afternoon. Alas....as of 5 minutes ago when I opened my computer to sign on here at school, the site is blocked. Nice. Mind you, AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, and iChat work just fine. It's just MSN that happens to apparently arouse the rath of the internet peoples of the district. Figures. Oh well, I was doing fine without it, so I'll get back into that mindset. Just irks me that I thought now I'd be able to use it once in a while is all. So sorry guys, I tried. If you're looking for me, email, or log in to your old yahoo or aol accounts and try to find me...

UPDATE: Well, as of Thursday night, it's working again. Weird. Random...but I'll take it when I can get it :-P Well nevermind that...it let me on for about 10 minutes, then crashed my browser and now it's blocked again. Sweet.

Where?

Well, still not too much to report, other than preparations being underway at their own organic pace. We do have tickets, though...so we know when we're heading up. That's a start. And really, we have all of next week and a little of the week after that free (tomorrow is my last day of work and we don't fly out of Chicago until the evening of Aug. 3rd), so we'll do the vast majority of our packing and moving and cleaning then. Yee haw.

But I figured, since I've started actually giving out this web address, I should probably pay a little bit of attention to, you know, actually providing a little bit of new content on occasion. Just a bit.

So let's take a look at just where exactly I'm moving to...


Nunapitchuk, Alaska. (Wikipedia entry, city-data entry, school page.)

To be perfectly honest, I know very little about Nunap. What I do know, I've just heard from Sara or read on the internet. Like everything out that way, it's well off the road system, though it is closer to Bethel than Quinhagak, and there's access to Bethel by boat when the river is open and by snowmobile when it's not. That will be nice, in addition to quite useful. I hear the fishing isn't as good as near other villages, with less salmon. In exchange, however, I'm told the Northern Pike fishing is excellent, and since I already know how to fish Pike, that will be fun. I know they're supposed to get more snow there than Sara's had in Quinhagak the last couple years, owing to the fact Nunap's a little more inland. I know they have boardwalks as opposed to roads like I saw in Quin. I also know that they have flush plumbing instead of honey buckets, which will be nice. But mostly, I know that I'm packing up my stuff and my dog and moving there in a couple weeks. So yeah, I'm excited!

More to come...

Aloha!

Just checking in...been a while since I posted here. As is to be expected, I guess, since I haven't moved up to Alaska yet...

But! Sara's home for the summer, preperations are in the early stages of being made for the big move (not to mention next year's wedding...), and the excitement, and well as the butterflies, are starting to build.

Been playing around with the look of the blog a little bit, and I think it's starting to take shape. I'm not what you'd call an html "expert", so if anything's not working on your monitor, just let me know in the comments, ok?

Thanks, and hope you're having a good summer!

And of course, stay tuned...

Welcome!

Ahoy there!

I've decided that since this blog will be a journal and record both for myself and for friends and family, all about the big move and life up in Alaska starting this summer, I might as well kick it off by posting my account of my first trip to the "Alaskan Bush". I visited Anchorage last November, but that doesn't really count, does it? So without further adieu...enjoy!

And thanks for reading!!