Beginning Life in Fairbanks

Have been here three days now. Not too much to report but here is what has happened so far.
Monday I did nothing but sleep. Did not adjust to the time zone change very well at all. Not very exciting.
Tuesday I moved to the hotel where we will be for the rest of April. It is very nice, small fridge, microwave. I will eventually have a roommate but he has not shown up yet. To add to the excitement I went to a clinic where I had a drug test. Then went to the Department of Motor Vehicles where I took four tests. Managed to pass them all so I now have an Alaska drivers license and a Commercial drivers license learners permit.
The lady that was taking pictures said I could have do-overs if I wanted so I told her that I wanted to keep taking them until I came out looking like Johnny Depp. That did not work out very well and I had to settle for pictures that look similar to me. Very disappointing...
Wednesday it was supposed to be cold and snow one inch. Made it all the way up to 20 degrees so we got the cold, but it has been sunny all day. Just goes to show you that the weather peeps are the same all over.
My manager came up from Denali today. She picked me up and took me to WalMart. Talk about excitement....
The story is that when this WalMart opened in the 1980's, people came from all over this part of Alaska and bought out the store. Literally. They had to close for a week to restock.
Anyway, I bought a screwdriver. We have to provide our own screwdriver. I guess that is so if something falls off of the bus we can put it back on. Also bought some food to put in the fridge.
I have figured out how to watch the Phillies games on my computer. Watched the good half of today's game then had to go to WalMart so missed the bad inning. The Cubs afternoon game was on local TV today. It started at 10AM. Crazy.
So that is what is happening so far. Hopefully things will pick up.
Later.