Sleep and the Loch Ness Monster

Much like seeing the Loch Ness Monster I am finding sleep to be rather elusive. I don't have insomnia per se as I eventually fall asleep only to have poor quality sleep. I wake up more tired than when I went to sleep.

Strange.

Swell's most recent birthday present should solve the sleeping problem.

Every episode of Road to Avonlea ever. Seven seasons worth.

Nice Thanks a lot for that gift. Just kidding. Kind of. Swell likes it that's all that matters. Its ok that I'll need to sit through them as well.

We may have a place to watch those episodes. The Nome job has gone from 11 days every two months to three weeks every ? months for both of us. They also want us to do some village travel. We would get into a small plane that would fly us into a village that can only be accessed by air where we would spend a couple of days being optometrists. They have a backlog of patients so they would like us to spend three weeks up there at a time. Fine by us as it is a 32% daily raise.

Employed/independent contractor optometrists tend to be paid via a daily rate. Some jobs have built in incentives (if you see X people you get Y extra per day) but it is a daily rate none-the-less.

Currently I work only 3 and 3/4 day per week. I pick up an extra day or two when I can. Swell works five days per week.

Going to Nome we would both receive an immediate 32% raise and I would be working more per week. 5 or 6 days a week. This will allow us to relax more on our weeks off. We would still be looking for fill-in work in and around wherever we happen to be (WA, OR, or GA maybe AB) but it wouldn't kill us if we only found a day or two here and there. This in turn would allow us to concentrate on other areas of our lives.

Selling our house.
Finding a practice.
Writing.
Etc.

Seems very exciting to me.

We're just waiting for a tentative schedule to be sent to us outlining the weeks they would like us to be there.

Projected first visit would be in February.

Brrrr.