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Google Ascension Island and you’ll see where I’m currently working.

Love skiing this time of year. As long as the coverage is good and once you get used to the wet snow, there’s no better feeling when you have long runs like that practically to yourself.

Wish I was on the slopes now.

I’m listening to the book Grant right now. About halfway through and it appears that Grant was a hands on soldier more than a sit back and watch general.

He had problems with alcohol, but he would go weeks, if not months, without an issue. When he drank, he was all in.

It also sounds like he was a master horseman.

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It use to let you "trade" them all in one transaction

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I didn't like it either when they changed this procedure. It was convenient and easy.

It's been the current way for about a year or so.

Cool man. She resigned and is flying out in the am. Supposedly having surgery in a few months.

I only have the four hikes on Letterbox and Spire Beach left to complete them, but the road to get to all of those are closed due to an unknown virus infecting the booby birds that nest out there.

I'm here for another 22 weeks total with 4 weeks off in June/July.

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Did Wendy ever get back to the states to get her knee fixed?

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Uhhhhhh, who in the heck are you?

Green Mountain is cool. When you are up there, you look over old lava flows and a Mars-like terrain on one side and what looks like Colorado on the other side. All while the wide Atlantic Ocean is beyond.

When walking to the peak, known as Dew Pond, you walk past 100s of banana trees, eucalyptus trees, and then a bamboo forest at the top.

What’s up jgt? Yep, haven’t worked in LA since 2018. I was back there for 20 weeks this past winter and got my first deer in 4 years.

Three stints on Midway Island (20 months) and multiple here on Ascension (26 months).

To the other poster, I’m a nurse practitioner and I work in the medical clinic on the American base. There’s a shared runway here with the UK.

Lots of interesting history here…both Charles Darwin and NASA have been here.

One day I’m going to post pics from both islands on here and on the OT board.

He came out here to Ascension Island last year. It's "world-class" fishing out here.

You can catch 300+ pound yellowfin tuna, marlin, and sailfish less than a mile offshore. Several guys have caught 140+ pound tuna from shore in the past several years.

Morning, or afternoon from Ascension Island (6 hours ahead)

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Yes if they stop letting big pharma and insurance companies make the medical decisions

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This isn’t the issue. It’s that medical providers are letting their “patients”, which are now considered more as customers, make the medical decisions.

Too many people read Dr. Google and walk in the door telling the provider what they want. In order to maintain patient (customer) satisfaction, the provider gives them what they want and not what they do or do not need.

This is a huge problem in the medical industry. Years ago when I worked for a large health system, the Chief Medical Officer once pulled a provider to the side and told them “you give them what they want.” This was in response to a known drug seeker who went off against the provider in the ER and then immediately proceeded to the administrative offices and went off on them.