My day started at 3am, when I got up and began making lunch (stew takes more prep than breakfast), and after getting everything prepped and into the crockpot, I busted out some bacon, eggs and biscuits for our 6:30am call-out (that's when we get called to work on deck for pulling into port). We pulled into Ketchikan around 9am after jockeying around with the barge and dodging all the cruise ships. Pretty little town, at least what I could see from the barge. We immediately went to work on cargo and didnt let up until around 4pm, with the exception of a 20 minute lunch break. The weather was warm, maybe 70+?
We pulled away from the dock around 4:30 and I immediately went back on watch and began making dinner, which consisted of (you guessed it)... More stew, mostly because not too many people had time to eat it for lunch and the captain said it was cool if I just set that our for dinner. But I added my typical salad bar and some tater tots.
The worst part of my day wasn't the long sweaty back-breaking hours. It was the phone call from my wife and my mom with updates of my dad. He is UC Davis Med center undergoing surgery for some type of fast moving bacterial infection in his face. The are having to remove many of his upper teeth and part of his palate in order to get this thing stopped. It sucks. He doesn't deserve this, nobody does for that matter, but he's the nicest guy on earth and shouldn't have shit like this happen. Anyhow... I await news from home on his condition and hope for the best possible outcome.
Now, I'm showered, in my rack and looking forward to about 8 hours of sleep. The captain also said I could hit my rack early because I've essentially been working since 3am non-stop. We will stay on the inside for another day at least before heading across the gulf to anchorage. I guess the winds are supposed to pick up, so we will get to see how my cooking skills are in a galley the moves.
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