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My Laptop broke, AARRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH! I suddenly realised how much it’s become the essential tool of my season. It’s my jukebox in the bar, it’s my excuse for doing better hours (I sit on reception making bar promos rather than doing rooms), it’s my playstation to play games and watch DVDs. That’s without it being essential to Snow506. I was lost for a few days, I felt like Superman did after his first encounter with kryptonite. The snow wasn’t great, we were in the middle of another snow drought so I got out boarding, but it wasn’t that great. I had to find my entertainment somewhere else and thankfully there were some good guests that week. For the last few weeks I’ve tried not to drink behind the bar, I didn’t know if I’d do loads wrong. Thankfully there were a bunch of guests in who wouldn’t take no for an answer on all the rounds they bought. Don’t tell anyone, but by the end of work on a number of nights, I was really smashed! There was one guy in particular who lives in the Green Zone in Baghdad who was out here looking after a middle-eastern Royal Family (as none of their ex-SAS personal guards can ski apparently) and he was a really interesting bloke to talk to. One night we both sat there drinking whiskey, talking about guns, working with the American military, life in Iraq generally, and maybe if there’d be a job for me out there. Being quite drunk, I was quite up for the idea. I’ve also sussed out how to sort out the current housing crisis in the UK for people my age. All we have to do is be private contractors in Iraq for a couple of years and we can all easily afford to buy a decent house. When I woke up the next day, reality set in a bit and I thought is the money really worth it? Would you risk life and limb for a couple of years in order to live out the rest of your life in relative comfort? I guess we’ll never know. I never did get his email address. Anyway, I got in touch with the Warranty people in the UK and got my laptop fixed which was a huge relief. But I was now behind on all the stuff I said I’d do for the bar, so I basically spent most of Week 6 either at work in the bar (drinking), or working on promotions. Kelly, the other Natives reporter got in touch with me about helping out with the Natives Seasonairres party night next week, including putting up posters and generally getting the word out. Obviously I did it, but for a while, but I was starting to think ‘I’m not getting any time off. - I’m living in the mountains and I’m never going snowboarding.’ It was an enjoyable week, but mostly because of the great bunch of guests. |
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