Don't ruin our fun Sick-O

Well It's been very busy here in Alaska. Between being sick and flying my ass off I have been exhausted and not really wanting to do much of anything. But it's like they say "no rest for the wicked". Of course no one here will give me a break...god forbid I don't want to do anything and ruin everyone's fun.
For the last week my apartment has been more of a frat house/bar for the rest of the pilot's, airline employees, and who ever else just shows up!
It all started Friday when I came home sick as a dog, wrote on the blog and then went to sleep on the couch. Later that evening I was woke by The Phoenix bursting through my door half lit wearing a Hawaiian shirt, a flower lei and sun glasses. I immediately bust out laughing. First it's winter in Alaska and he is wearing a Hawaiian shirt, second it's dark out side and he's wearing sun glasses. To top it off he is holding a half a glass of whiskey. Knowing the Phoenix at one point that glass was full and I'm betting it was not that long ago.
The Phoenix has come to get me to go to a going away party for one of our mechanics. A party I tried to forget about opting to sleep instead. But now with what I am seeing standing before me I decide there is no way in hell I'm going to miss this train wreck!
Now knowing this party is about 2 miles away I ask him if he has a way for us to get there. He tells me that one of our passengers that is in Anchorage left his car in the parking lot and if that passenger didn't return on the last flight that he would take his car. I tell him okay let me get ready.
About an hour later the Phoenix returns and we head down stairs and out to the parking lot. when we get to the parking lot we find that the car we were going to use is not there. I'm in no mood to walk, it's cold, I'm sick and the Phoenix is just about trashed so walking is not an option.
I decide that we will boost D-Reb's car. We get in and I try to start it and it's a no go. The battery is dead. I think great we are running out of options and ask the Phoenix if he has any other ideas...of course not! So I hand him a flash light and tell him to start searching every car in the parking lot for jumper cables, he looks at me like I am out of my mind but agree's.
While he is doing that I am searching for key's and cables too. I find key's to a cargo van next to D-Reb's car and of course the battery is dead. About that time the Phoenix come's back and has jumper cables so I decide to try to daisy chain the dead batteries together to see if I can get enough juice to start D-Reb's car. As I get everything ready The Phoenix opens D-Reb's hood, I hook up jump in and low and behold the damn thing starts!
After about 5 minutes of letting the car run we get everything put back where we got it and go to close the hood. But some how the Phoenix managed to break the hood and not just break it so much as completely rip it off the car! I look at him and asked "what did you do" he just looked at me with a blank face and said "I don't know". So I go about trying to reattach it to the car. After about 20 minutes I decide that the hood is not an essential piece of equipment for our commute and quickly MEL it ( throw it on the ground).
The Phoenix asked me " are you just going to leave that there" I respond " yep now get in the car I'm leaving"
The party was pretty much uneventful. They had a live band, a few of the members tried to get me to play with them after they found out I played. " I'm not here to play...I'm here to drink your whiskey!" 
Over the next several day's the flying had been steady putting in 6 plus hour flight days then coming home to relax only to have a party started at my place.
Even on Valentines day when I was sure I would be able to rest while every one was out with their wives they partied here bringing their wives before going out to dinner. So with me the ATC guy and the Phoenix having no one to have dinner with we decide to go together to take advantage of the couples valentine special at the local diner. yeah I spent valentines night with two dudes over a candle light dinner lol pathetic!! but is was super cheap!
Over the course of a week we drank so much beer I am seriously thinking about subsidizing my income with recycled beer cans.
On a lighter note Dan and myself have been given class dates for the Sabb. March 26th, Dan will be Anchorage based and I will be headed to Boston. So this could very well be the last month that we will be based out here as Bush Pilot's. Watch out civilized flying world...here we come!! 

The Sniffels

Well Today was my first day back to flying. I have been here for about a week but have been sick and I am still sick.
Dan went home last night leaving me here as the only FO so I felt like I had to try to fly today. That was a bad idea and what makes it worse is I knew better. My head is congested and going to altitude and coming back down reeks havoc on the ear's. Mine feel like someone stabbed me with an ice pick right in the ear.
On top of the constant ringing in my ear's I'm here alone and I'm supper board with out Dan here to instigate and participate in my shenanigan's.
Speaking of Dan...today is his birthday. He is apparently trying to be clever and delete this info form his online social networking pages as too keep the world from knowing.So I'm here to tell the whole world it's Dan the bush pilot's birthday!!
Happy Birthday Dan!!! and good luck with that Cha Cha thing! lol