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With the Skipper on Gilligan's Island...

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Dreams; Published: 12 November 2017; Hits: 1399

I'm with Alan Hale, the Skiooer, on Gilligan's Island, the older Gilligan's Island, the black and white one, and he's pointing to a low grainy island off in the sea and telling me that if we're going to get off the island we have to get there, and so we grab a small sailboat and set out...

...and it's not very far, not very far at all when everything turns to color and people are running around busy streets with their portable coffee mugs on their way to work and I realize that it's not such a far flung island after all, it's more the final spit on the end of an archipelago, we're not at all far from civilization, and there are two oddly dressed girls with big heads and short bodies and they're telling me that they're from the land of El Dorado, they just came here through a rift, on vacation, and I'm trying to show Alan Hale, look, look, we're saved, we're not lost at all, but he's just not seeing it...

Upstanding Community Members

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Miscellany; Published: 08 November 2017; Hits: 2116

And the pub, business dropped off a cliff, long days cleaning, the place is spic-and-span, the season apparently will pick up in another month. Fingers crossed. We're down to 2 staff members - Myself, and the chef, the other chef wasn't getting enough hours and so found a more reliable job at the hotsprings. She gave notice, then they terminated her, they were doing her "a favour" they tell her, and that if the owner wants to scream at her that's her right as owner of the business, and that she doesn't - the owner - owe any one an apology because she is, after all, the owner...

It's unbelievable.

The other waiter - 1 shift per week - 4.5 hours, and they ask me if I want his shift, if I do they'll lay him off, I don't - I need more work, for sure, but not at the expense of firing somebody else...they're proper corporate sociopaths...

But I know the remaining chef is looking for work, if he finds it the pub will close. The reputation they have in the community is well deserved and hard won, and it's definitely what they imagine it to be, I trust them about as far as I can throw them, they've done nothing to me but I've seen too much their treatment of the rest of the staff to deceive myself that my day isn't coming...

Keeping a full tank of gas in the Jeep just in case...

New Place

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Miscellany; Published: 08 November 2017; Hits: 1200

And, finally, the last 3 days in the trailer were a little bit much, below zero, out of propane, erratic power, swirling my foot around the space heater, a 6 inch radius of warmth, the rest of the trailer a freezer, now, for the first time in a year - for the next 6 months - a place of my own. It's been a long road but maybe I'm getting there...