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Downtown Dickinson Association Seeking Executive Director

August 5, 2017Uncategorizedguide to Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

The Downtown Dickinson Association is seeking an Executive Director. The application deadline is August 15.

I don’t know if I should apply or not? If this goes like most things in Dickinson, they would try to not hire me, because they actually already have someone else in mind.

If I were Executive Director of the Downtown Dickinson Association, here are things that I might do:

In cities like Key West, they have tours of the city. A trolley or carriage-like vehicle with no sides, towed a second trolley/carriage trailer with passengers. The host, who was not necessarily the driver, had a microphone attached to a loud speaker, and he/she would describe the local history, the name and significance of each important building, and who lived there, and who did what, etcetera, as the pre-planned drive loop proceeded.

In Dickinson, the tour could begin at the downtown Dickinson plaza in front of the Court House. The drive route would cover and include most places of interest in Dickinson. The Court House, the old Woolworths building and how important this used to be, the Elks building, the Odd Fellows Lodge building, the Masonic Lodge building, the Post Office building, the Library (Carnegie) building, Bernie’s Esquire Club (Supper Club), Dickinson State University, Paragon Bowling Alley, Train Depot, the Haunted Old St. Joseph’s Hospital, the Haunted New St. Alexius Hospital, homes and businesses of local celebrities. And, maybe even a tour inside one of the downtown underground radiation fall out shelters.

Most people don’t know the importance and significance of the buildings in downtown Dickinson. Just taking the Woolworths building that is across the street from the Post Office as an example, there are local people in Dickinson in their late forties and older that can describe that Woolworths used to be a really big deal and the focal point for downtown. People from Belfield, New England, New Hradec, Richardton, Gladstone would plan on making a trip to Dickinson that would last half a day, and the centerpiece of it was shopping and eating at Woolworths.

From my memory, I remember someone describing to me that Bernie’s Esquire Club that is now a bar, used to be called something like the Supper Club in the 1950s and 1960s. There was a restaurant downstairs, and people used to get very, very, dressed up to go to this.

As some of you know, and others do not know, there are at least five currently still existing radiation fall out shelters beneath downtown Dickinson. The one that I have been in, is below the old Dickinson Press building. The others I believe are located beneath the Sax Motors building, the Rock Bar, and the Green Drug store on Villard.

I don’t know if the tour host should point out, mention, or explain about Radar Base Hill. At one time, Radar Base Hill was occupied by several hundred, if not more, military personnel. It was not a weather station like they used to tell the Dickinson residents, but an intercept and tracking radar station in defense of the ICBMs in North Dakota.

If the open sided carriage/trolley vehicle and trailer are not considered to be enjoyable between September through April, a regular shuttle bus could be used instead.

2. Cages for people downtown.

It often happens, that someone who has something wrong with them, consumes alcohol downtown, and then they go on a drunken tirade. The Dickinson Police eventually get called to deal with it, but not before everyone has been irritated, upset, and accosted. There should be cages downtown.

Off the top of my head, the dirt parking lot behind the Elks building might be a good place for two cages. The downtown bars could get the menace people in the cages at night, the Dickinson Police could come and pick them up later, or Kristi could let them out in the morning. I am sure she would want to let them out because they would probably be yelling by 9:00 a.m. when she got to work.

Another good place for two cages would be the field between the Ukrainian Culture Institute and the Paragon Bowling Alley. The people in the cages could probably still order food from the Paragon up until 2:00 a.m. Monday through Thursday, and 24 hours on the weekends.

3. Downtown Dickinson Cat Association.

I will write about this in a future blog post, but I can tell you now that I will recommend Kevin Holten for a leadership position in this.

4. Indoor Concerts At Masonic Lodge Building ballroom.

I will write about this in a future blog post.

82,000 Views And 54,000 Visitors

I feel a sense of accomplishment with my blog website because of the number of people that I have been able to inform about Dickinson, North Dakota. When people anywhere in the world perform a Google search for “living in Dickinson”, “moving to Dickinson”, “relocating to Dickinson”, “people in Dickinson”, “guide to Dickinson”, “what is Dickinson like”, “would you move to Dickinson”, “economy in Dickinson”, “women in Dickinson”, “police in Dickinson”, “entertainment in Dickinson”, “chamber of commerce in Dickinson”, “Catholic Church in Dickinson”, “corruption in Dickinson”, my blog website comes up near the top of the first page of search results.

I get to tell everyone in the world what Dickinson, North Dakota is like, what went on here, and what is happening now. I have such a sense of purpose, direction, and conviction in doing this. I feel that there is so much I have to repay Dickinson for, almost every step that I have ever taken in Dickinson, I have been mistreated or cheated, like nowhere else I have ever been.

The people in Dickinson are hostile, hateful, unfriendly, uncooperative, angry, greedy, mean, and treacherous. I have written before that if someone wanted to know what living in Dickinson, North Dakota is like, they should watch the movies “Deliverance”, “The Grapes Of Wrath”, and “Planet Of The Apes”. Though these three movies have cruelty in them, they don’t have nearly the level of hate.

I have held back for two years from saying this, but what I have felt truly describes the level of hate that these German Catholics here have for people, is what I have seen in watching documentaries on Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps. First, there is this unshakeable belief here in Dickinson in each individual that they are better than other human beings. Second, the individuals in Dickinson proceed to act on this belief by treating others with hatred, hostility, unfairness, usury, and treachery. Third, the individuals in Dickinson will deny to the end that they have done anything wrong. Fourth, they have no remorse or shame in what they have done.

I can’t apply for a job, work at a job, open a bank account, purchase equipment, get a tire repaired, shop at a grocery store, ride my bicycle, without experiencing hatred, hostility, anger, unfriendliness, and treachery from local people. Living in Dickinson is like being in prison, you learn to expect the worst things from people, and this is what you deal with every day.

Homeless Shelter In Dickinson, North Dakota

August 3, 2017Uncategorizedbeing homeless can happen to anyone, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

There is no homeless shelter in Dickinson, North Dakota. There should have been one built within a couple of years of the most recent oil boom that began in 2007. Now that the oil boom is over, and many people will lose their jobs and their homes, this is another reason why Dickinson needs a homeless shelter.

No matter who you think you are, you really do not know what is going to happen to you. You may think that you have thought of everything to ensure that you will always be O.K., but I can assure you that you will not always be O.K. You are mistaken if you think that it is only other people whose lives fall apart.

The people who do not want a homeless shelter in Dickinson, foremost do not see this as something that they personally will ever need. Secondly, they see homeless people as being nothing like them. These first two attitudes and beliefs need to be addressed, because they are not true.

Most personal bankruptcies in the United States are due to catastrophic illness or injury. Most of these people never saw this coming. Some had health insurance, but the medical costs greatly exceeded what the health insurance would pay. Yes, part of the equity in a home is protected in bankruptcy. But after bankruptcy related to a catastrophic illness or injury, how likely is it that the person will be able to return to full time employment doing the same work? Bankruptcy proceedings are meant to uncover all assets that a person owns, to determine their ability to pay their debts. It is unlikely that anyone who goes through bankruptcy will have hidden money that will allow them to not have to work.

Experiencing a catastrophic illness or injury, can and does lead to people losing their homes and becoming homeless. You could argue that a person could or would go on Social Security Disability, but not if they were determined to be recovered.

Another example that I will give comes from a news article that I read this past week titled, “Honey, you’ve been scammed.” A woman of about 60 years of age heard about a mortgage refinance opportunity which she applied for and was enrolled in. The new mortgage company was fraudulent, and it never took over or applied any of her payments to the existing mortgage. The woman’s home was foreclosed on that she had been living in for the past thirty years, and she was evicted from her home. The fraudulent mortgage company was found to have done this to thousands of other people, the perpetrators were arrested, but it is not expected that any of the victims will ever recover any money.

The 60 year old woman that was the victim of the mortgage fraud, was a single mother that had to work hard and be smart with her money in order to buy her own home thirty years ago. She was not stupid, anyone can become the victim of a fraudulent mortgage company. Any mortgage, finance, or investment company can steal funds, which clients may never be able to recover.

I am trying to explain that many of the things that cause people to become homeless can also happen to you. You might think that you can rely on friends and family, but in a town like Dickinson, everyone might experience financial difficulty at the same time.

A homeless shelter is sometimes necessary for people who aren’t bad people, or poor people, or people who made bad decisions, but people who experienced some type of catastrophe that could have happened to any of us.

Don’t think that I am trying to make my argument about the need for a homeless shelter by using the rare example of good innocent people. I am trying to make you understand that the life events that cause people to become homeless can happen to anyone. I hope that you will finally see that anyone, including yourself could possibly become homeless.

Honest, hard working people, who have done nothing wrong, sometimes live in an area where there is economic decline. They may be positive an optimistic about finding work where they live, and wait too long. When they finally do decide to travel to a different state to find work, they may be driving a vehicle that is not very nice, and have very little money. They may not be able to pay for a motel. This describes many of the people that came from out of state to work in Dickinson.

I don’t see anything wrong, and I do see everything right about having a big warehouse where these people could sleep, eat, and take a shower. What harm would this cause the people in Dickinson? I have heard people comment that Dickinson doesn’t want to become a magnet for vagrants by having a homeless shelter. I don’t think that it is right for people to be treated badly supposedly because we don’t want a bunch of vagrants to come here. If Dickinson became known as a friendly hospitable place, all kinds of people, not just vagrants might want to live here.

I Didn’t Realize That No One Knew, Or Everyone Forgot About What Happened In Dickinson, North Dakota

August 2, 2017Uncategorizedeconomy in Dickinson North Dakota, justice in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, people in Dickinson getting what they deserve, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what happened in Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

I have been writing about the hatred, hostility, unfriendliness, lack of cooperation, and usurious gouging that the local people in Dickinson treated the out of state workers with, but I didn’t realize that many people don’t know what I am talking about, or they have forgotten. I must now re-tell what happened.

Having made one preliminary trip to Williston in May of 2011, where I had to sleep in my truck, I purchased a 1975-78 truck bed camper for $500, for my return to North Dakota. When I arrived in Dickinson in mid-May of 2011, I slept in my truck bed camper in the Wal-Mart parking lot and in the Tiger Truck Stop parking lot for a few days.

Within a few days I was able to get a job with an oil field service company. I was told that I could stay in my camper on the company property, but arrangements were being made to find a house trailer for me and two other new hires to live in, we would each have to pay some of the cost in rent. Soon, my local Dickinson co-workers complained and protested so much about the company trying to find a house trailer for us new hires to live in, that the company withdrew the offer. My other out of state co-worker was stuck sleeping in a small Chevy Astro van that he had borrowed from a relative.

In the evening after work, I would go to the Tiger Truck Stop to use the internet. Soon, I began talking to the “regular customers” that I would see every evening. It turned out, that most of these regular customers were sleeping in their vehicles at the truck stop. Some people didn’t even have vehicles, they were sleeping on the ground way at the back of the parking lot.

When motorists on interstate I-94 would take the Tiger Truck Stop exit ramp, they would see campers and tents at the back of the truck stop parking lot. This attracted other out of state workers to park there, and it caused local Dickinson residents to try to put an end to this. The Tiger Truck Stop received many complaints about people staying in their parking lot. Some local Dickinson residents went so far as to make formal complaints with the City of Dickinson. The City then informed the Tiger Truck Stop that they were not licensed as a “camp ground” and could not allow people to stay there over night. The Tiger Truck Stop staff had to inform people every night that they could not stay there in a trailer or camp there.

The Tiger Truck Stop had not seen the harm in allowing people who didn’t know where to go and what to do, the chance to park and find out if they could get a job and a if they could find a place to live. There was no homeless shelter in Dickinson. The local Dickinson residents who complained, did so out of maliciousness because this was a completely industrial area, and these people weren’t hurting anything.

Other places that the out of state workers slept at night in their vehicles, on the ground, or in the bushes were: Wal-Mart parking lot, Patterson Lake, T-Rex Mall parking lot, under bridges over the Heart River, the deep wooded ditch behind Kentucky Fried Chicken, vacant lot behind the Grand Dakota Lodge, DSU Agricultural Research Center woods, Dickinson Trap & Skeet Club woods, Enchanted Highway metal sculptures, I-94 rest areas, storage units, industrial areas, and construction sites.

I estimate that on any night, there were 300 to 400 homeless workers in Dickinson. About 90% of them were currently employed. For most of these homeless workers, the cost of a motel room in Dickinson per week, was more money than they would take home in a week. The least expensive old one bedroom apartments in Dickinson were $1,500 per month, with $1,500 deposit, if you could even find one that was available. Most out of state workers came to North Dakota because they were having financial difficulty where they came from, they didn’t have $3,000 to get into an apartment.

I called all of the RV Parks in Dickinson, none of them would allow trailers or motor homes that were older than ten years old. Lot rents were about $700 per month, plus utilities. Many out of state workers thought that they were going to be O.K. with their older motor home, truck bed camper, or trailer that they brought with them, but instead they found that the trailer parks would not allow them, and that the local Dickinson residents hated them.

The local Dickinson residents had this scheme, that they were going to fleece the out of state workers in every way possible, to the greatest extent possible. The local people in Dickinson did not want there to be enough housing. The local people wanted there to be a scarcity of housing, so that housing prices would double, triple, and quadruple, which they did. When the City of Dickinson and Stark County had to review permit applications for “Man Camps” which would have helped to alleviate the housing shortage, the local Dickinson residents protested so strongly, that they were not allowed.

The local Dickinson residents then proceeded to rent tents or camper spaces in their backyards for $700 per month, until the City of Dickinson later had to pass an ordinance against this.

In the evenings after work in Dickinson, I met many normal workers from out of state who had a home, a wife, and children back where they came from. I would pass the time with them in the evening, while they waited until it was dark enough and late enough to go back to a construction site to sleep, industrial area, or parking lot, wherever they had to hide at night. All of the homeless out of state workers had to hide at night, because the local Dickinson residents didn’t like the “oil field trash” getting away with not paying them $700 per month to sleep in their backyard, or $1,500 per month for their garage apartment.

The local people in Dickinson absolutely did not want there to be a homeless shelter because this would have meant more people getting away with not paying them.

In my previous blog post I wrote that soon it will be unnecessary for me to write about and criticize Dickinson for what it has done. There is going to be an economic collapse in Dickinson, where all of the gouging and scheming local residents will get their just rewards for what they have done. The local Dickinson residents mistreated the out of state workers who came here after facing an economic collapse where they came from. Now the Dickinson residents can experience the exact same thing, losing their jobs, not being able to pay their bills, losing their possessions and their homes, having to go to a different state where they have never been and don’t know anyone, with not enough money to pay for a place to stay.

Will I Ever Be Done Criticizing Dickinson, North Dakota?

August 2, 2017Uncategorizedeconomy in Dickinson North Dakota, guide to Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, the future of Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, what is going to happen in Dickinson North Dakota, would you move to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

Will I ever be done criticizing Dickinson, North Dakota? Yes, I see an end to this. I think that I see how everything is going to unfold, play out, and finish up in Dickinson. I never could have planned and orchestrated life making such a complete, perfect, and just full circle.

I had a home and everything that I ever wanted in Idaho. But the economy in Idaho kept getting worse and worse. If I didn’t do something, I would go broke, and lose everything that I had. I heard about the oil boom in North Dakota, so that is where I went in May of 2011.

I had never been to North Dakota, and I didn’t know anyone in North Dakota. When I got to North Dakota, I slept in my vehicle. There was no affordable place to stay. Even though I had a degree in engineering and had worked in many types of construction as an engineer, estimator, inspector, superintendent, and project manager, the North Dakota employers treated me as if I didn’t know anything, though they relied on me to do work at a much higher level than they treated me.

It has been difficult and unpleasant living in Dickinson. I have written about it. The lack of affordable housing, there being nothing to do, the shortage of women, the scarcity of attractive women, the hostility, hatred, unfriendliness, and lack of cooperation from the local people. But I will be able to quit writing about all of this soon.

There is an economic collapse that is going to happen in Dickinson, that is just now beginning. Every unkind thing that the people in Dickinson did, is going to come back on them. What they derided the out of state workers for, they will now experience fully for themselves.

In Dickinson, local people will begin to lose their jobs. Local people “who didn’t do anything wrong and don’t deserve this” will not be able to pay for their vehicles, their homes, and their necessities. The local people in Dickinson made fun of and mistreated the out of state workers who came here after losing everything, now the local people will have a chance to experience losing everything themselves.

I won’t have to write about it. The local people in Dickinson will live every day in uncertainty, with anxiety, fear, and worry. It will be difficult to pay bills, and then they won’t be able to pay bills at all. For the able-bodied, it will come to the point where they pack what they can into a vehicle and head for some place like Denver, Oklahoma City, or Salt Lake City, without enough money or barely enough money to make it there. Not knowing anyone where they are going, with no money, and no place to stay. When they are sleeping in their cars in the below freezing weather, maybe they will remember how the local people in Dickinson treated the out of state workers who came to Dickinson.

The majority of the absolutely broke local people won’t leave Dickinson because that’s just the way they are, unable and unwilling to change, adapt, or adjust. They won’t understand and refuse to understand no matter how many times the Sheriff deputy explains that they are being evicted and have to leave their home. The local people who have been evicted from their homes will be packed shoulder to shoulder in the basements of the Catholic Churches.

One of the final, final pieces of justice for the local Dickinson people who are packed shoulder to shoulder in the basements of the Catholic Churches, with one toilet, will be that the local people in Dickinson refused to build a homeless shelter. Millions and millions of dollars have been paid to Catholic Church in Dickinson through tithes, offerings, and bequests but no one wanted to build a homeless shelter. In the end, the homeless people who will suffer the most in wretched filth, stench, and squalor will be the local people.

Second Example Of Older Houses In Downtown Dickinson

August 1, 2017Uncategorizedarchitecture in Dickinson North Dakota, guide to Dickinson North Dakota, houses in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, old homes in Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

This is my second example of an older home in downtown Dickinson, North Dakota. This particular home is located approximately one block south of the Courthouse.

I believe that this home was built between 1910 to 1935. This is another example of Colonial a.k.a. Georgian architecture. You will see houses almost identical to this one in the old downtown neighborhoods in Daytona, Savannah, Pueblo, Flagstaff, Idaho Falls, or Uvalde, Texas, anywhere that I have been.

One of the reasons why houses almost identical to this one appear in every town, is because this may have been one of the house plans available from Sears Roebuck & Co. From approximately 1908 through 1940, you could order house plans and complete house kits from Sears Roebuck & Co. Perform a Google search, type in “Sears Roebuck & Co. Kit Homes”, and near the top of the first page of search results the websites “The Arts &Crafts Society” and “www.searsarchives.com/homes” have archives of all these house designs and plans.

This house was probably built before there were televisions in people’s homes. Any time of day, people would sit out on the porch. In the morning to read the paper, in the afternoon to take a break, in the evening to socialize, and at night to cool off when the house was still hot inside. This house appears to have an upstairs porch too. At night, the homeowner could lay on an outside lounge on the upstairs porch, and stare up at the stars, and if he was Mormon, could wonder what planet he would become god of.

The People In Dickinson Don’t Know What They Are Going To Experience

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Since moving to downtown Dickinson a couple of months ago, I have been able to ride my bicycle more than when I was living outside of town north of Dickinson. Now, it is easy for me to ride my bicycle to the Post Office, grocery store, hardware store, and restaurants.

While zigzagging my way through the old downtown neighborhoods in Dickinson on my bicycle, I had a chance to pay more attention to the houses than when I was driving. I was sorry that I hadn’t noticed before how many interesting old houses there are in downtown Dickinson.

I wanted to take photographs of some of the old homes in downtown Dickinson. I thought that it would be easier and safer for me to do this on a bicycle ride, rather than driving one of my vehicles. I was aware that it would probably upset a homeowner if they saw someone taking a photograph of their home, and that no amount of explaining would make it O.K. with them. I tried to think of the best time for me to photograph without upsetting anyone, but there really was no best time.

On this past Sunday afternoon when I went on a bicycle ride in order to take photographs, I found that the inhabitants of the old downtown neighborhoods in Dickinson didn’t even like me riding through their neighborhoods. They were watching me with suspicion even before I came to a stop and took out my camera. From the way that they were behaving, I sensed that photographing someone’s home half a block away from them would have caused some of these residents to go berserk. I had to pass by many nice homes without being able to photograph them.

I tried to look at it from their point of view. There have been a lot of thefts from garages and vehicles in downtown Dickinson. The thefts are probably committed by scraggly meth addicts on foot and on bicycles. I can understand this, I have felt the same way about passersby in the places that I have lived.

There was really nothing that I could say or do to not make these homeowners uncomfortable. They would have been just as suspicious or even more suspicious if they saw me come to a stop in front of their house in a vehicle, take photographs, and then drive off. I understand that they are concerned about their house, their possessions, and what is going on.

Later on Sunday, I went on another bike ride for exercise and for something to do. This time I rode through the blue collar worker, lower middle class neighborhoods just beyond the oldest downtown neighborhoods. The residents of these blue collar neighborhoods acted suspicious of me too, and as if they didn’t like me riding through their neighborhoods. It seemed like these blue collar workers were probably just as concerned about their new expensive vehicles, as they were about their homes and other belongings.

In the old downtown neighborhoods, and in the blue collar neighborhoods, I got the impression that the homeowners are proud of what they have, protective of what they have, and fearful of losing any of what they have. So much so, that even a person riding by on a bicycle is a threat to them.

I believe that these homeowners don’t know what is going to happen in Dickinson. From my reading and learning about what happened in Dickinson during the oil boom of the 1950s, and the oil boom of the late 1970s, these two previous oil booms each lasted about eight years, and after they were over, there were massive job losses, jobs were scarce, jobs were low wage, housing prices dropped by 60%, and people walked away from their houses because they owed so much more than their houses were worth.

In Dickinson, the retirees and the people who were planning on retiring, to live off a combination of savings, investments, social security, and pensions, these people will be O.K. The non-retired homeowners with mortgages and expensive vehicle payments, they will not be O.K. These people will have a difficult time making their monthly payments because they may lose their job, or their wages will become lower and lower. At the same time they are having difficulty making their monthly payments, they will find that they still owe $140,000 on their house, and it is now worth $100,000.

House payments of $1,100 to $1,600 per month on a house that is worth way less than you owe, truck payments of $900 to $1,100 per month on a truck that is worth less than you owe. And the best job you can get, if you are lucky, take home pay is $2,500 per month. I don’t think that the people in Dickinson know what is going to happen.

Older Houses In Downtown Dickinson, North Dakota

July 30, 2017Uncategorizedguide to Dickinson North Dakota, houses in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, real estate in Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

In order to display the character of the older section of downtown Dickinson, North Dakota, I am going to show photographs of houses in several blog posts.

The oldest section of downtown Dickinson is approximately twenty blocks wide east to west, and approximately twenty blocks long north to south.

The above photograph shows an older home that is located several blocks north of the courthouse. I would estimate that it was built between 1910 to 1935. It is not the most fancy or ornate of the older downtown homes, but it is very typical in size, style, and appearance. I took the photograph of this particular house, because I believe that this is an example of Colonial a.k.a. Georgian architecture, only done in a very minimal way.

(I had some difficulty in photographing homes in Dickinson. Neighbors across the street and down the block did not like me even coming to a stop, not even having gotten my camera out yet. I had to skip photographing some houses because there were too many people around, taking an interest in what I was doing before I even had a chance to photograph anything. I think that next time, I should probably notify the Dickinson Police ahead of time that I will be taking photos, because I am sure the police were called.)

Thwarted Romance In Dickinson, North Dakota

July 30, 2017UncategorizedLiving in Dickinson, North Dakota, meeting married women in Dickinson North Dakota, meeting women in Dickinson North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, women in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

This past week I was at a bar, restaurant, gathering, or event in Dickinson, where I met more than several women. In order to tell this story, I have to be vague about who, what, when, and where.

The first group of women that were talking to me, were a little bit younger than me, fairly attractive, outgoing, positive, and kind of wild. They were talking to me and playing with me just to be nice and friendly. But, one of these three women came back by herself, and she wanted to talk to me some more. I will call her “Karen”, though that is not her real name.

As Karen started to like me more and more as we were talking, she stood beside me, and was pressing into me, so that I could not help but look down at her bare tan shoulders and breasts. I was noticing that she had no tan lines. Then I noticed that she had a pierced tongue, and she said, “Yes, everything is pierced.”

Karen had told me a lot about herself, and what she and her husband did for a living. I am 48 years old, and I know how married women become bored, and irritated with their husbands for any one of a thousand possible reasons. I didn’t have to ask about that, women are always mad at their husbands for something.

In this particular instance, Karen’s husband not being there with her, was his crime, and reason enough for her to go astray. The only obstacle, was that every single person there, knew that she was married. She was spending so much time up close with me, it was obvious to everyone that she was drunk and horny, but none of her male friends or female friends tried to stop her or come and get her. I thought that she would end up coming home with me, or me with her.

(Reminder, this is Dickinson, North Dakota, where the ratio of men to women is 3:1, and there is a scarcity of attractive women. The Dickinson Police will absolutely not allow prostitution, so if you want to be with an attractive woman, you have to borrow someone else’s wife.)

Karen was not ready to leave yet, it was still early. She wanted to drink more, and she proceeded to do so. All the better for me, I thought.

Then, somebody else’s wife came over to me and started talking to me. I will call her “Laurie”, though that is not her real name. Laurie was even more mad at her husband than Karen was. Laurie was not drunk, just mad. As Laurie started talking with me, she began to like me even more than Karen did.

I was happy to talk to some woman who liked me, who wasn’t drunk. Laurie began to push up against me, and I could not help but notice what nice tan breasts she had. Everyone there knew that Laurie was married, but none of her male friends or female friends tried to stop her, or come and get her.

Then Karen came over, Karen and Laurie knew each other. Karen was much more drunk by then, and Laurie was not completely nice to Karen, kind of trying to get Karen to go away, which she did. Laurie’s husband was supposedly in the immediate vicinity, whereas Karen’s husband was at least sixty miles away.

It would have been better for me to go home with Karen, because Karen’s husband was much farther away, and Karen was drunk. However, Karen soon became so drunk, that having sex with her would have been illegal. If I would not have been talking to Laurie, I could have gotten Karen to leave sooner. It may have been Laurie talking to me for so long, that made Karen decide to go ahead and get too drunk to have sex.

Laurie came back over to talk to me again, complaining to me that her husband was a drunken mess. I saw her husband finally, he was the biggest, tallest, most muscular guy there. I thought to myself, “Jesus Christ you crazy woman, what are you trying to do, get me killed.” Her husband was about four or five inches taller than me, and about fifty pounds heavier than me, and he looked like a bully and a thug. And his wife has been talking to me and rubbing up against me for quite a while.

I had thought for sure that I was going home with an attractive, drunk, horny woman, but now instead it looked like I was going to get beat up. I thought, “Man, I just want to go home now.” It would be O.K. with me if I never saw these people again.

The Lower Middle Class Neighborhoods In Dickinson Are Nicer Than The Upper Middle Class Neighborhoods In Idaho

July 29, 2017Uncategorizedguide to Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, residential neighborhoods in Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

In my previous blog post, I described and explained that the lower middle class neighborhoods in Dickinson, North Dakota are very attractive and well maintained, more so than the upper middle class neighborhoods in Dickinson.

I have lived in Dickinson, North Dakota for approximately five years now. Prior to this, I lived in the Snake River Valley of southeastern Idaho, Rexburg, Rigby, Idaho Falls, Blackfoot, Pocatello for five years. This area of Idaho is predominantly Mormon.

If you know anything about Mormons, you know that they try to be neat, clean, and tidy in everything they do. So it should seem not possible that the lower middle class neighborhoods in Dickinson, North Dakota would be nicer than the middle class and upper middle class neighborhoods in Idaho. But this is the case, and I want to explain why. I want to describe this so that people in Dickinson and everywhere else in the United States can understand what was going on economically.

During the North Dakota oil boom that began in 2007, the housing prices in Dickinson doubled and tripled in just a few years. The Dickinson homeowners suddenly had a great deal of equity in their homes, which could be borrowed against for home repair, renovation, improvement, and additions. In contrast, the home values in Idaho went down.
During the North Dakota oil boom that began in 2007, many or most of the blue collar workers in Dickinson had their pay double, mostly because of regularly working many overtime hours. This extra money was used by Dickinson homeowners to pay for repairs, renovations, improvements, and additions. In contrast, during this same time in Idaho the economy was in a recession, with many people losing their jobs, and there being a scarcity of jobs.
In North Dakota during the oil boom, especially in Dickinson, there were many families living in town who began receiving money dispersements from oil wells on family owned property outside of town. It was very, very common in Dickinson, that a grandparent would receive oil revenue checks every month, and be able to give every adult child, and every grandchild several thousand dollars, or more, each year during the oil boom. Many families in Dickinson put this extra money into home repairs, renovations, improvements, and additions. In contrast, in Idaho during this time many people had their homes foreclosed on for lack of having a job and a means to make their mortgage payments.
In North Dakota during the oil boom, homeowners in Dickinson finished off their homes with additions, sun rooms, decks, fences, new garages, and new driveways. In Idaho during this time, many new homes that were being completed never had decks, driveways, sprinkler systems, or landscaping put in because people did not have the money to pay for these things.

Right now in Dickinson in the lower middle class neighborhoods, it would not be an exaggeration to say that there is a new $50,000 truck in every driveway, because in some driveways there are two of them, and some are $60,000. In Idaho, most doctors, dentists, and lawyers do not own trucks or vehicles as expensive as the new four-door, four wheel drive, lifted, 3/4 ton-1 ton trucks that are prevalent in the lower middle class neighborhoods in Dickinson.

Don’t try to come to Dickinson now! The oil boom is over. There is a scarcity of jobs in Dickinson now, with a strong hiring preference for people who are from Dickinson. You missed it. But if you would have been here, the least expensive old one bedroom apartments rented for $1,500 per month, if you could even find one available. The homes in the lower middle class neighborhoods got up to $250,000 to $400,000, so you would not have been living in one of these homes.

Nice Lower Middle Class Neighborhoods In Dickinson, North Dakota

July 25, 2017Uncategorizedbuying a home in Dickinson North Dakota, houses in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, real estate in Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

I moved from north of Dickinson to downtown Dickinson about two months ago. Throughout the several city block area in my neighborhood, there are a few houses and yards that are a mess, but the majority of the houses and yards are so well kept, that overall the neighborhood is pleasant and attractive. And my neighborhood is probably a bad neighborhood in comparison to the adjacent neighborhoods.

I often criticize the local Dickinson residents for being uneducated, ignorant, hostile, hateful, unfriendly, not helpful, and uncooperative. I am not going to take any of that back. However, it does amaze me that these local people living in the lower middle class neighborhoods in Dickinson maintain their homes so well that the nicest looking areas in Dickinson are these vast neighborhoods in the downtown city blocks.

Although there is one corner of downtown Dickinson that has more affluent people, and this neighborhood is fairly nice, with dead-end streets, private drives, some larger yards, and even an $800,000 house with a swimming pool, this neighborhood is not as well maintained as many of the lower middle class neighborhoods in Dickinson. This is very strange to me, and might be a unique situation found only in Dickinson.

I have thought about why this may be the case, that the lower middle class neighborhoods in Dickinson are so nice looking. I believe that there are four main reasons.

Putting aside the oil booms of the 1950s, 1978, and 2007, the growth of Dickinson has been slow and steady. There did not occur the creation of vast new suburbs outside of Dickinson, and the abandonment of downtown Dickinson. Downtown Dickinson has been continuously occupied, and has always been a fairly desirable location to live in, by the local residents.
Putting aside the oil booms of the 1950s, 1978, and 2007, Dickinson has not been a town where many people became rich or affluent. There were not tremendous numbers of people in Dickinson that made so much money by the time they were in their late thirties, that they needed to have a “McMansion” built. Nor were there tremendous numbers of people that were making so much money that they looked at their first home as a “starter home”. Now that I am writing this, I think that the fact that most home buyers in Dickinson believed that, “This is it, this is the only home we will ever have.”, made the homeowners take care of their homes.
Due to the recent oil boom that occurred in 2007, home prices in Dickinson literally doubled and tripled in just a few years. Homeowners in Dickinson that might not have even had significant pay increases in their line of work, would have had easy access to home equity loans to make home repairs, renovations, additions, and improvements.
Due to the recent oil boom that occurred in 2007, many home owners in Dickinson did have significant increases in the amount of money they were earning. With home prices literally doubling an tripling within just a few years, it would not have been appealing for local homeowners to buy a better house now that they were making more money. It would make sense to repair, renovate, add onto, and improve the home that they already owned. Many local residents did do this.

Not only do these lower middle class neighborhoods in Dickinson look very nice, they currently do not have very much crime in these neighborhoods, and they are fairly quiet and peaceful.

Real Estate agents and homeowners in Dickinson currently believe that their homes in these lower middle class neighborhoods are worth $225,000 to $380,000, which is ridiculous, for several reasons. A family would have to expect to make at least $70,000 per year for the next thirty years to be able to afford that much money, which very few families can expect to do now that the oil boom is over. There will be many houses for sale now that the oil boom is over, there are fewer jobs, and people have to leave Dickinson. House prices will become lower, and lower, and lower.

These neighborhoods do look nice though. Many, or most of these houses have new vehicles parked in front of them, which I think is an indication that the homeowners did well financially during this most recent oil boom, or they took out home equity loans when the housing prices doubled and tripled.

Local Celebrities And Who’s Who In Dickinson, North Dakota

July 24, 2017UncategorizedLiving in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what are people like in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

After years of serious thought and contemplation, below I have compiled The List of Local Celebrities And Who’s Who in Dickinson, North Dakota:

Updated 4/8/19

Mrs. Judy Anderson – Accountant, List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson
Mr. Emil “The Edge” Anheluk – Member of Outlaw Sippin’ band, President of North Dakota Ukrainian Dance Association
Mr. Tim Armbruhst – Keeper Of The Oil Field Secrets
Mr. Tori Barnum – Manager The Rock Bar
Mr. Dave Bauer – Owner Bauer Property Management
Mr. Dan Brown – President SARP, firearms instructor
Mr. Sammy Chávez- Orador Experimentado
Mr. Dusty Dassinger – Chief Of Police
Mr. Scott Decker – Mayor
Mrs. Kathy Fisher – Owner The Rock Bar, List of Attractive Women In Dickinson
Mr. Brad Fong – Previous Owner Parkway Ford, philanthropist
Mrs. Brenda Fong – List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson
Mr. Darcy Fossum – Owner Alpha 6, ATM, digital signs, investigations
Mr. Joe Frenzel – City of Dickinson Commissioner
Mrs. Marinna Marsh Fuchs – Most Beautiful Woman In North Dakota
Mr. Carter Heiser – Owner Autorama Auto Sales
Mr. Kevin Holten – Writer, Television Producer, President of North Dakota Cowboy Hall Of Fame
Mr. Glen Huschka – Owner Champ Construction
Miss Kaycee Hutzenbiler – Vocalist, Drummer, List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson
Mr. Gene Jackson – City of Dickinson Commissioner
Mr. Dennis Johnson – President TMI, former Mayor of Dickinson
Miss Jackie Knowlen – North Dakota Job Service
Mr. Andrew Kordonowy – Owner Cerberus, security specialist
Mrs. Laura Erhardt Kordonowy – President Viking Glass
Mr. Corey Lee – Sheriff Stark County
Mr. Mike Lefor – District 37 Representative, Owner DCI Credit, Owner Blue 42
Mrs. Marchell Kubas – List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson
Mr. Bernie Marsh – Owner of Bernie’s Esquire Club, father of Marinna Marsh Fuchs
Mrs. Melissa McDermott – List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson
Mr. Andrew McGarva – Professor DSU
Mrs. Bernice Mueller – List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson
Mr. John Mueller – Manager Paragon Bowling Alley
Mrs. Janilyn Murtha – City Attorney of Dickinson, List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson
Mrs. Peggy O’Brien – Manager Prairie Hills Mall
Mrs. Geliza Hoese Ocheltree – Vocalist, List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson
Mr. Terry Oestreich – Former Sheriff of Stark County
Mr. Jack Olin – General Manager Dickinson Ready Mix
Mr. Klayton Oltmanns – City of Dickinson Commissioner
Mr. “Wild” Bill Palanuk – Radio Personality, Television Announcer and Narrator
Mr. Bill Patel – Owner Astoria Hotel, Best Western, Motel 6
Mrs. Kamal Patel – List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson
Mr. Beni Paulson – Member of Outlaw Sippin’ band, philanthropist
Mr. Brady Paulson – Member of Outlaw Sippin’ Band
Mr. Jeff Porcupine Pokorny – Chiropractor, President of Oddfellows Lodge
Mr. Dan Porter – Owner Dan Porter Toyota, Most Favorite Person In Dickinson
Mr. Mike Riesinger – Owner Brickhouse Grille
Mrs. Kristi Schwartz – Owner Allstate Insurance, President Downtown Dickinson Association, List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson
Mr. Bryce Shypkoski – Owner Titan Oil Field Service
Mr. Jacob Siewert – Owner Masonic Lodge Building
Mr. Luke Simons – District 36 Representative
Mr. Carson Steiner – City of Dickinson Commissioner
Mrs. Laurie Strommen – Owner Quality Quick Print
Mr. Tracy Tooz – Owner Tooz Construction, philanthropist
HRM Sarah Jennings Trustem – Queen of Dickinson
Mr. Clarence Tuhy – Former Sheriff of Stark County
Mr. Trace Wells – Videographer
Mr. Brock White – Entertainer, DJ, and Master of Ceremonies
Miss Emily Zastoupil – Bohemian Bon Vivant

Fear Of Marathon Oil Company Hat

July 21, 2017UncategorizedLiving in Dickinson, North Dakota, Marathon Oil Company in Dickinson North Dakota, Marathon Oil Company public relations, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Marathon Oil Company likename withheld

I was in downtown Dickinson recently with three of my co-workers, and we were each offered a Marathon Oil Company hat by a Marathon employee that we know. I accepted the tan hat, and I put it on. My three co-workers declined the other hat.

I was happy with my new hat, and I said to the Marathon employee that I have known for about three years, “I hope that I don’t get arrested for something and my arrest mugshot is in the news, wearing a Marathon Oil Company hat.” Then I said, “Or maybe I will get away, and the police will put out a description, saying the suspect was wearing a Marathon Oil Company hat.”

I was then required to promise that I would never tell anyone where I got my Marathon Oil Company hat. And I agreed, because by that time, I figured that, “I would be more attractive to women because they would think that I worked for Marathon, that I had a good job, and that I made a lot of money.” The person that gave me the hat said, “I don’t see that happening.” This hurt my feelings. I was happy, and then I was sad, owning this Marathon Oil Company hat.

About 1/2 hour later, one of the most beautiful young women that I know walked up. She is my height, has long reddish brown hair, beautiful bright green eyes, and she is very thin and in shape from bicycling, hiking, and rock climbing. I began talking to her, she just came into town from Montana. She met some people that are on a cross country bicycle trip, and she wanted to go with them, but she doesn’t have any of her stuff. I said that I had two extra mountain bikes in the back of my truck, she can have one of them if she wanted.

We walked about one block and around the corner to look at the bikes that were in the back of my truck. We were talking about different things, and where else she might get the rest of the things that she wanted. I had just seen this guy Andrew that she knows better than me, that would likely have saddle bags and backpacks.

When I got back to downtown, I said to the Marathon employee who had given me the Marathon Oil Company hat, “Did you see that beautiful young lady that I was talking to, she wanted to know if I could get her a job at Marathon.” The Marathon employee said, “You know that Marathon is a very ethical and moral company, can I please have my hat back?” And I gave the hat back.

My feelings were hurt. I am 48 years old, and I never had a hat taken back from me for not being ethical and moral enough. I was embarrassed, ashamed, and humiliated that my hat was taken away from me, in public, for not being up to Marathon Oil Company’s standards. How have I failed so horribly as a human being, what have I done with my life?

I bet that less than 5% of the Marathon employees in Dickinson have a Bachelor of Science in engineering like me, or have equal job experience to me, or have gone through as stringent government background checks as me. However, because of the Marathon Oil Company culture and corporate brain washing, even Marathon employees with no college education, are higher level and superior to most human beings, and most people are not qualified to even wear a Marathon Oil Company hat once they start to analyze it more closely.

Now I want a Marathon Oil Company hat, and also a shirt, for both myself, and the gentleman that the four Dickinson Police Officers had to wrestle and take to jail for attacking everyone, for when he is released from jail.

Incredible And Amazing Financial Mystery In Dickinson, North Dakota

July 20, 2017Uncategorizedcomplaint against company in Dickinson North Dakota for nonpayment of wages, employer making unauthorized deductions in Dickinson North Dakota, employer shorting wages in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, oil field service company in Dickinson North Dakota, real estate in Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

Eventually, and I think fairly soon, one of the most incredible and amazing news stories will begin to unfold in Dickinson, North Dakota…..

Update 7/24/17:

I have removed this article for the time being. This article was about an oil field service company in Dickinson that is having some financial difficulties and problems.

The cause of me looking into, analyzing, and writing about the company’s financial situation, was that I had not been paid money that I believe I was owed. As of today, the company has agreed to pay me. I do not want to make things more difficult for the owners of this company at this time, so I removed this article.

Camajur Bus Service, Dickinson, North Dakota

July 19, 2017Uncategorizedbus service in Dickinson North Dakota, cab in Dickinson North Dakota, Camajur Bus Service, cheapest taxi service in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, shuttle service in Dickinson North Dakota, taxi in Dickinson North Dakota, taxi service in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

The Camajur Bus Service is owned and operated by Marvin and Cathy Dill, and their son Justin and his wife. The Camajur Bus Service is also referred to as the Sober Bus.

The reason why I am writing this blog post, is to let everyone know how inexpensive their bus and taxi service is. In other states, I have had very bad experiences with unexpectedly high cost taxi rides, and I have been told that the same thing happens in Dickinson, especially with taxi rides to and from the Dickinson airport. This doesn’t have to happen to you.

I was working in Watford City last summer, which is 90 miles northwest of Dickinson, and a very unpleasant drive to make, whether you take Hwy 22, or Hwy 85. The air-conditioning compressor on my Dodge truck seized up, causing the serpentine belt to break, which is the same belt that drives the alternator and the water pump. I realized from looking at the belt routing diagram, there is a different belt and a different routing when the truck is not equipped with an air-conditioning compressor.

I was not getting anywhere with the two auto parts stores in Watford City, explaining that I was bypassing the compressor, this is the size belt that I wanted. It came to the point that I decided to take a taxi 90 miles to Dickinson to get my other truck. I called Camajur Bus Service and spoke to Marvin Dill, told him where I was, and asked him how much money he wanted to come and get me. Marvin said something like $70 to $80, and I couldn’t believe that he could do it for that little money, it is about a 1-1/2 hour drive.

Marvin came to Watford City and got me about an hour and forty five minutes later. I was so happy to be going to get my other truck, and no longer being at the mercy of the auto parts stores in Watford City. I was happy to not be the one driving for once, I had to drive back and forth to Watford City every week. I gave Marvin $100, which is more than he wanted, but I don’t see how he could do it for less than $100.

This summer, I moved from north of Dickinson, to an apartment in downtown Dickinson. In order to get one of my extra trucks to storage, and one extra truck to my apartment, I called Camajur Bus Service twice. It was at least a ten mile drive from north of Dickinson to downtown, but each time Justin only wanted $10. Each time I gave Justin $20, because I don’t see how they could do it for less than $20.

If you are at a bar or restaurant in Dickinson, and you become too intoxicated to drive, most bars and restaurants in Dickinson will give their customers a voucher, and call Camajur Bus service to come and pick you up, at no charge to you. You give the voucher to the Camajur Bus driver, and at a later date he turns in that voucher at the bar or restaurant to get paid for that trip.

I hope that more people find out how inexpensive the Camajur Bus Service is, and use it, so that they will continue to operate, and we don’t all have to be victimized by some other taxi service.

Camajur Bus Service 701-590-3396

Telling The Secrets Of North Dakota

July 18, 2017Uncategorizedhiking in North Dakota, killing white people on the reservation, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, places to explore in North Dakotaname withheld

On Monday morning I telephoned my father in North Carolina, and right away he was yelling at me, “You better stop that! I’m telling you, you, hey, I mean stop!” I had no idea what he was talking about or what he was referring to. He was mad that I wrote not only one, but two blog posts about the forested valley on the Fort Berthold Reservation.

My father was sure that I was going to cause every developer on the east coast and the west coast to fly out there tomorrow to buy up all the land. I tried to explain to my father that it was Bureau of Land Management land, or Native American land. He said, “So what, BLM does lands swaps all the time. The Native Americans will get talked into building a casino there, and it will all be ruined.”

I felt that I had been vague enough about the location, that only enthusiastic hikers would be able to find it. But my father disagreed with me, the developers will find it now.

The way I feel about it right now, what if only a few people get to see it this year, and a few people next year, what good is that? I had never seen anything quite like it in my life, and it made a profound impression on me. In my excitement and happiness, I wanted to tell other people, but I was aware that making it too easy to find could ruin it.

I really don’t want hunters to go there. Hunters are the most ignorant piece of shit people, not even recognizing their own mental deviance and defectiveness in getting excited by the thought of killing animals. I try not to hit birds, squirrels, turtles, dogs, cats, and deer with my vehicle, but hunters get excited about killing these animals and they actually go looking for them in order to shoot them. Currently all the animals in this valley are unafraid of people, only slightly wary of people, and I don’t want hunters to terrorize the animals.

I also don’t want the meth addicts to go there. I would hate to see beat up Hyundais there with Idaho license plates beginning with the letter “K”, for Coeur D’Alene, meaning that there are restaurant and bar workers there that are high on drugs and looking for things to steal.

When I sat in the valley, it was quiet and peaceful, and amazingly beautiful. There were no people and no vehicles, it was completely serene. The sight of it, and the experience of it, made everything else seem insignificant and unimportant. For as long as you are there, nothing else seems to matter. Whatever might be important elsewhere, is no longer important. The amount of money in your bank accounts, the amount of your debts and bills, your career, your job, your house, your car, your possessions, your successes, your failures, none of it matters because it is all so insignificant in comparison to what you are now seeing and experiencing.

Ever since the white settlers came to North America, they considered the Native Americans to be very odd in regard to the ownership of land. The Native Americans did not have the concept of owning land. Even in present times, Native Americans differ from white people in the way they live and what they own. White people would characterize Native Americans as being careless.

When I sat in this valley, I partly understood why the concept of owning land may be ridiculous to Native Americans. How could a person own this, it has existed for thousands of years before a person was born, and it will exist for thousands of years after a person has died? How could a person try to control every animal that dwells here, and every animal and person that passes through? Would it not be insane, and the action of a crazy person, to even try or think that they could control what goes on here? What are you going to do, stop the rain, wind, snow, fire, drought, flood, birth, and death? If you think about it, white people do have the belief that they can, and must try to control everything. White people never fully grasp the truth that they are here for just a very short while, and are insignificant really.

I would like for other people to find the forested valleys on the north side of the Killdeer Mountains, and be able to experience this one or more times, while it still exists. Jackson Hole has been ruined, Flagstaff has been ruined, and Sedona has been ruined by the millionaires and the billionaires, that thought that they could buy up paradise and own it. Instead they choked the life right out of it, almost like the tale of killing the goose that laid one golden egg each day, in order to try to get all the golden eggs at once. This is one last chance that I know of for people to experience the most beautiful land that I have ever seen.

The Native Americans control this area inside their sovereign nation of Fort Berthold, whether some of the land is owned by the Bureau of Land management or not. If the Native Americans want to develop this land, it would be a shame, but their right to do so. They don’t have to preserve their tribal land for the sake of white people to come and visit, white people really aren’t supposed to be here on their reservation in the first place.

Because of the Native American’s “odd” view on the ownership of land, they aren’t currently chasing down non-trouble maker white people during the day that might be hiking or bicycling. However, about 5% of Native Americans will kill white people if they catch them on the reservation at night, or the Bigfoots will.

Dishonest And Disreputable Companies In Dickinson, North Dakota

July 17, 2017Uncategorizedcorruption in Dickinson North Dakota, corruption in North Dakota, employment in Dickinson North Dakota, failure of North Dakota government, failure of the North Dakota Department of Labor, injustice in North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, oil field service companies in Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, working in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

In the beginning of June I started a new job in Dickinson, North Dakota. I thought that this was going to be a good job, with a good company. When I arrived to work at this oil field service company at 3:45 a.m. on a Monday morning, one thing after another went wrong. No supervisor showed up until 4:30 a.m., my supervisor was out for the week and he had left no instructions regarding me and my work. After phone calls were made, it was determined that I was supposed to drive a crane truck to a location two hours away, but the keys were missing, the crane truck was a mess and in no condition to drive, and the equipment on it that was needed that day was broken.

My instinct and my gut feeling was that I should say right then, “Hey, I don’t want to work here.” I could barely keep myself from telling the company that I had decided not to work there. It appeared to be so disorganized and unprofessional, with no planning or accountability. I needed the job, and the money, so I hung in there.

I got along with my co-worker/supervisor at the job site location two hours away. Within a couple of days, he was letting me do all the work on my own. His intention was that he would do the paperwork, and that I would do the physical work. This led to my co-worker/supervisor arriving at job locations a few hours late in the morning, and leaving a few hours early in the evening, because he was only doing paperwork, and I was doing the physical work which took all day.

It was hot, dirty, and tiring physical labor, and I would have liked some help, sometimes feeling like I was close to getting heat stroke. I was not supposed to be doing this work by myself according to the oil company safety rules. I did the work by myself, and I operated the crane truck on days when the wind was well over 30 mph, the cut off point to stop work. I broke these rules on many days in order to get work done.

I didn’t know that this oil field service company in Dickinson was not going to pay me. I had to wait for the two-week pay period to end, and then wait another ten days for a pay check to be made. On my second pay check, I was shorted 8-1/2 hours of overtime pay. I wrote a letter to the company payroll person, listing my hours, and explaining that I was shorted 8-1/2 hours of overtime pay.

My co-worker/supervisor telephoned the payroll person while I was sitting in his truck, and he went over the hours that I was shorted. Later that day, my co-worker/supervisor received a response from the payroll person, she said that the owner of the company had crossed out my hours, and wrote fewer hours, because he did not think that enough work was completed.

The owner of this company graduated from Dickinson State University with a degree in Business Administration, and he should know that it is illegal and unethical to not pay employees for hours worked. This says something about the owner of this company, Dickinson, Dickinson State University, and North Dakota. I have worked in Florida, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, and Idaho, and I have never ever before had a company refuse to pay me for my work hours.

My co-worker/supervisor then had a fairly long telephone conversation with the owner of this company, and he believed that he had agreement from the company owner that everything would be taken care of, that I would be paid for the 8-1/2 hours of missing overtime pay. Because I was expecting to be paid this money, I continued working for this company.

This past weekend I received by e-mail, a work hours summary for my third pay check, and it was 12-1/2 hours short on overtime hours! I couldn’t believe it! Not only was I not being paid for the 8-1/2 overtime hours that I was already missing, they were taking away another 12-1/2 hours of overtime pay!

The company owner had left a week earlier to go on a two-week hunting trip in South America. This made me believe what my co-worker/supervisor and I had already suspected, that it was actually the company owner’s wife that was shaving work hours off my pay, claiming that I was not getting enough work done. The company owner is on a two-week hunting trip in South America that probably costs $15,000 to $20,000. The company owner’s wife is trying to steal $570 of my pay, because she thinks that I don’t deserve it. She and her husband are better than me, and I don’t deserve to be paid. The truth is that I have been doing all of the work by myself, and have been breaking the safety rules on many days to get the work done.

I looked the owner’s wife up on Facebook, and I saw that she attended the Catholic college in Bismarck, the University of Mary. Not only do the Catholics not learn right from wrong in the Catholic Church, they don’t even learn basic right and wrong, ethical and unethical, legal and illegal when the go to their University! It is illegal and unethical to not pay your employees for hours worked.

I looked on the North Dakota Department of Labor website on how to file a complaint against an employer for not paying wages. It wasn’t too much of a shock to me, that the North Dakota Department of Labor wants for employees to “ask for your wages”, and that they will later act as a “mediator”. The North Dakota Department of Labor should be a government regulatory agency that enforces law in North Dakota, not a mediator. Because the North Dakota Department of Labor is so easy going toward employers, there is a huge back log of cases. There is a recent Bismarck Tribune newspaper article that says people who filed a complaint against an employer in 2014, had to wait two years, Two Fucking Years!, for a case worker to even be assigned to their complaint.

North Dakota has got to be the most corrupt and backward state. Of course employers are not going to pay employees wages when they know that there is a two year wait before the complaint is even looked at. I telephoned the North Dakota Department of Labor, and there are four previous complaints for non payment of wages against the company that I work for. In other states, this might be grounds for revocation of business licenses, but in North Dakota, the company instead gets glowing and gushing newspaper articles about them from the Dickinson Press.

Dickinson could not be more proud of this husband and wife entrepreneur couple. The Dickinson Press newspaper has written several articles about them, how wonderful and successful they are. They believe that they are so wonderful and successful, that they don’t even have to pay me for the hours that I worked.

I went to the courthouse in Dickinson to find out about filing a small claims civil suit against the owner of this company for nonpayment of wages. I thought that I could win this case if the owner of this company had to personally appear in court. However, I was told at the courthouse that in North Dakota the defendant in a small claims case is allowed to be represented by an attorney, and not even appear.

I already know what this means, an expensive attorney that has practiced law for twenty years in Dickinson will be hired, a long time colleague of every judge in Dickinson, and I am just an out of state oil field worker, nobody. Just like my employer believes I am so insignificant that I don’t need to be paid my wages, the court judge will feel the same way in deciding between what his long time attorney colleague says, and what I say.

It has been my experience in Dickinson that the police are only successful in harassing people, not solving crime, the local courts do not work, the state courts do not work, Federal agencies like OSHA, the Department of Labor, Equal Opportunity Employment don’t even function in North Dakota. North Dakota has got to be the most corrupt and backward state.

I am very angry about not being paid, and there is not any legal way for me to do anything about this in North Dakota.

Review Of First On First July 13 Concert In Dickinson, North Dakota

July 14, 2017UncategorizedFirst On First concerts Dickinson North Dakota, First on First Dickinson Summer Nights, guide to Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

For the past four years I have been going to the downtown concerts in Dickinson, North Dakota on Thursday afternoons in the summer. The concerts used to be called “Alive At 5”, but last year they changed the name to “First On First”. The Odd Fellows Lodge organizes, runs, and comes up with the funding for the events.

Because I started a new job in the beginning of June, and I had to work out of town, this is the first downtown summer concert that I was able to go to this year, besides the July 3rd concert at the Paragon Bowling Alley.

At the First On First concerts, the streets are closed at 4:00 p.m. from the Rock Bar down to Bernie’s Esquire Club. A stage is set up, various food vendors set up, a kid’s bounce house is inflated, and several outdoor bars are set up. There is no charge for admission, it is open to all ages of people, pets are allowed, and neighborhood animals come.

I would like to first list the local celebrities that were in attendance. “Wild Bill” Palanuk, local radio show host, and radio, television, and video narrator. Kevin Holten, director of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall Of Fame and host of the television show “Cowboy Moments”. Brock White, DJ and Master of Ceremonies. Bernie Marsh, owner of Bernie’s Esquire Club and father of Marinna Marsh who is known world wide for her beauty. Tracy Tooz, owner of Tooz Construction and organizer/sponsor of First On First. Beni Paulson, Board of Directors High Plains Culture Center and member of Outlaw Sippin band. Emil “The Edge” Anheluk, North Dakota Ukrainian Dance Association president and lead accordion player with Outlaw Sippin band.

Kristi Schwartz, president of Downtown Dickinson Association and owner of Allstate Insurance. Kathy Fisher, owner of the Rock Bar. Marchell Kubas, “List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson”.

The second aspect of this past Thursday’s First On First concert that I want to point out, is that this is one of the very few times and places in Dickinson where you will see attractive women. Attractive women come to this event like birds to a bird bath or bird feeder.

There was quite a range of attractive women. There were dignified housewives and professional women that wore nice light weight summer dresses or business slacks. There were nice housewives and single women that wore jeans or walking shorts. There were women that were seeking attention that wore shorter dresses, shorter shorts, and tops that could be revealing if they “weren’t paying attention”, accidentally on purpose.

There were Skank women that came to this event, women of dis-repute, and young women that would soon be women of dis-repute. As far as I was concerned, there were three regionally infamous women of dis-repute at this event, which were entertaining to watch, from a distance. You have to be out of range of how far they could spill a drink, which is how far they could throw a drink. They wear revealing clothing, such as short shorts, small tank tops, and cut off sleeveless shirts. They have to be out in front where every one can see them, and be the center of attention, and they become a spectacle when they get drunk.

On Wednesday I had observed a tall thin woman about 30 years old walking across a parking lot. I was so attracted to her that I wanted to go right up to her and talk to her, but I was stuck talking to my former room mate who drove up and was telling me about his health problems. She walked about as fast as a Bigfoot, with very long, quick strides, and I knew that I would have a hard time catching up to her, as my former room mate babbled on.

I felt that no one could tell it but me, that this girl was about as attractive as a model. She was wearing eye glasses, had her hair tied back, was wearing baggy jeans, and a T-shirt, but I could tell that she was tall, thin, well proportioned, had a pretty face, nice complexion, pretty hair, that she was healthy, and I could tell what her personality was like, from having met women like her before. Out of nervousness and not thinking, she waved at me. But she got out of range, I didn’t want to head her off with my vehicle.

Serendipitously, I saw this tall, thin, model like girl at the First On First concert on Thursday. I didn’t want to run right up to her, and scare her, and embarrass myself. She bought a ticket to go in the VIP corral, and though I would be allowed in if I asked Brock White or Tracey Tooz, I didn’t want to embarrass myself in front of everyone in the VIP and scare her off. I waited for a better chance to talk to her.

Finally, I stopped her as she was coming out of the Rock Bar. I explained that I had seen her yesterday, and that I wanted to talk to her because I thought that she was attractive, but that I was stuck talking to my former room mate. She made me explain where this was, and why I thought that this was her, and I explained everything in detail enough that she was flattered that I had remembered her in such detail, and that I must have in fact wanted to meet her. She was from Washington State, and she had been here in Dickinson for two months. I talked to her for about ten minutes, and I let her go, saying that I hoped to see her again.

I interjected this personal story, to explain that the First On First concerts are a chance for people to meet and talk to people that they see or deal with in Dickinson during the day, but don’t have the opportunity to have a conversation with otherwise. Also, it is an opportunity to make an ass of yourself, like I have almost done. On more than one occasion, I had picked out a girl that I liked, and I wanted to approach, convinced in my mind that this was a good idea, and it turned out that everyone there knew that she was married but me, or that she was a drunk and everyone knew it but me, or that she was a low Skank, not even a fancy Skank, and everyone there knew it but me.

This First On First, I would characterize it as “very balanced” in every way. The music was not too loud, the people were spread out evenly across the whole downtown area, there were equal and moderate lines at every food vendor and alcohol bar. There were young and old people, a variety of dog breeds, professional people, blue collar people, retirees, disabled, hippies, high school kids, college students, out of state people, local people, yuppies, farmers, ranchers, and red necks. Since every one was spread out across the downtown event area, there were no conflicts or fights, even though a great deal of alcohol was sold.

Three bands performed from 5:00 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. I would estimate that the number of people at the Rock Bar, Bernie’s Esquire Club, The Odd Fellows VIP lounge and corral, and the event area between 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. stayed at approximately 700 people. Even though I do not like the Dickinson Police following me around when I am driving, they are very helpful at the concerts and events in Dickinson. At events like the Hairball concert, the Paragon Bowling Alley concert, and the First On First concerts, the events go so much smoother when the Dickinson Police are there, because the drunk people actually make the decision that they are not going to fight, grab a hold of people, damage property, and have a tirade, because they don’t want to be tasered, handcuffed, and taken to jail.

The Danger Of Snacks In Dickinson, North Dakota

July 9, 2017Uncategorizedhow oil field workers lost money, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

All together, I have lived for a total of five years in Dickinson, North Dakota. I first came to Dickinson in May of 2011, from Idaho, because I had heard about the oil boom. The economy had turned bad in Idaho in 2009, about two years later than most other places in the United States.

The area of Idaho that I lived in had experienced a housing boom that started in approximately year 2000. People in California that owned ordinary single family homes, discovered that they may have had $400,000 to $1,000,000 equity in their home, due to rapidly increasing real estate prices in California. California was congested, had terrible traffic jams, high taxes, and crime. California home owners began selling their homes in order to move to Arizona, Utah, Idaho, and Montana.

The California home owners could sell their home, buy a new home in AZ, UT, ID, and MT for $200,000, and have $200,000 to $800,000 left over to use as retirement money. Many young men in AZ, UT, ID, and MT worked in construction, concrete, dry wall, earth work, electrical, framing, plumbing, roofing, etc. When real estate prices dropped in 2007, due in part to wide spread mortgage fraud, “derivatives”, and a naturally occurring market reset, the construction jobs went away not long afterwards.

Myself, and many other people involved in construction began to have much less work, and make much less money. These construction workers were the majority of the out of state workers that came to work in western North Dakota. Reporters or local people may have wanted to describe the people who came as being from diverse backgrounds, but this was not the case, they were mostly construction workers.

When I arrived in Dickinson in 2011, within one week I had a job where I was earning about $1,100 per week, due to working overtime hours. Able bodied, semi-skilled construction workers were able to obtain employment making $15 to $20 per hour, with roughly twenty hours of overtime each week.

I thought that my financial problems were over, I was making much more money than I had been making. The majority of the out of state workers felt this way. But every winter, I would have not very much money saved up when I wanted or planned to go back to Idaho, and I wondered what had happened, and where the money had gone.

For all of the out of state construction/oil field workers, myself included, one of the biggest and worst “hidden” costs, was Snacks. Every morning, most workers would stop at a gas station convenience store and buy about three to four Gatorades, a sandwich, potato chips, brownies, etc., which would add up to $20 more or less. There would not be anywhere to stop later in the day possibly, or there possibly would not be time, so you had to try to get enough things to last all day.

Back in 2011, there were very long lines at the grocery stores, tremendously long lines at WalMart, and most workers did not have the time or the energy to stand in a long line at WalMart after working for twelve hours. The gas station convenience store shopping continued in the evening, due to the long lines at the grocery stores and WalMart.

How bad is this problem? Let me give you an astonishing example. My co-worker/supervisor told me that he made $135,000 in year 2015. He paid over $45,000 in income taxes that year. Though there should have been $90,000 left over, he has nothing to show for it, and he does not know where that money went. I told him that it was partly due to Snacks.

In the morning, every morning, he spends $20 or more at a convenience store on food, drinks, etc.. The same thing happens at lunch time, and the same thing happens at night on his way home. That is at least $60 per day, $420 per week, $1,800 per month, and $21,600 per year, on Snacks!

His Snack payment each month, is equal to what a mortgage payment would be on a $275,000 house. His Snack payment each month, would make the make the payments on two new four wheel drive trucks.

There are several things that caused all of the out of state workers to spend a tremendous amount of money in a way that was wasteful. Most of the out of state workers did not have wives and girlfriends with them, due to adverse conditions, especially the cost of housing. Wives and girlfriends could have done shopping during the day, and obtained food and drinks at 20% to 30% of the cost of a convenience store. Wives and girlfriends, if they had any sense and wanted to have anything for themselves, would have grasped the enormous amount of money that the oil field workers were wasting every day.

Besides the out of state workers not having wives or girlfriends with them, most out of state workers did not want to come back to their local housing at night. Housing was very, very expensive, which meant having a bunch of room mates in order to live in a house or nice apartment, living in a small camper, living in a man camp dormitory, or living in a small old decrepit apartment. Out of state workers went to eat at restaurants every night and out to bars every night for several hours in order to not have to be around their room mates or face the depressing fact that they were living in a small camper.

The End Of A Work Week In Dickinson, North Dakota

July 7, 2017Uncategorizedemployment in Dickinson North Dakota, guide to Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, working in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

If you have been reading my blog posts for the past couple of weeks, you will have read some descriptions and details about how things have been going at my new job that I started five weeks ago. I was very let down and disappointed that what I thought was going to be a good job at a good company, turned out to be the exact opposite.

Besides complaining about the company that I started to work for, I very nearly could not work because my eyes swelled up to where I could not see due to allergies. I made it through that, but just barely. My co-worker/supervisor for a number of reasons, did not want to help me do the work, and began to come to work less and less, to the point that he did not come to work at all yesterday. The company that I work for, is unaware of this, but the oil company that we are doing the work for, is aware that I have been working mostly by myself, though I am not supposed to be.

I have been working out of town, two hours away from Dickinson. There is an even greater shortage of women, restaurants, stores, and things to do where I am working, than in Dickinson. On the drive home to Dickinson this Friday, there is nothing that I was looking forward to in Dickinson. There are no friends or prospective girl friends that I was looking forward to seeing, no where that I was looking forward to eating, nothing that I wanted to buy, and nothing that I wanted to do.

When I got home in Dickinson, I checked my e-mail. There was nothing too important or alarming. I had an e-mail that my on-line pay check record could be viewed. I looked at my net pay check, and it was disappointingly low. Looking at it some more, I saw that my company had shorted me 8.5 hours of overtime pay.

I wrote a letter to the company pay roll person, writing down the hours that I worked each day, and my total hours. I planned on dropping this letter off on Saturday or Monday. Also, there was withholding for “New Hire”, which I did not understand.

As I thought about it some more, I realized that the company was going to try to not pay me for drive time, which began to make me angry. I have to wake up at 2:00 a.m. on Monday, to leave at 3:00 a.m., to drive two hours until 5:00 a.m., which is 6:00 a.m. in that time zone, and then work until 5:00 p.m. in that time zone, which is 6:00 p.m. in Dickinson. In other words, I start driving at 3:00 a.m., and I don’t get done with work until 15 hours later, that’s right 15 hours later. On my time sheet, my supervisor writes down 12 hours for Monday, but the accounting women and the owner’s wife, just assume that because it is a two hour drive, they will just go ahead and take two hours off that 12 hours.

I could inconvenience the company owner and his wife by filing a small claims suit or a complaint with the Department of Labor, for the money that I am not being paid, but I would probably lose, because this is North Dakota. The company owner and his wife have a lot of news stories about them because they are so amazingly successful, benevolent, charitable, and run everything so well. I am seeing and experiencing the exact opposite.

I have to weigh out what I want to do. Saying or writing what I would really like to do, would only cause me unnecessary problems and not get me anywhere. The only smart and rational thing for me to do, would be to find another job.

I looked at North Dakota Job Service, Indeed, and LinkedIn, to try to find another job. There are very few jobs in Dickinson now, very, very few jobs.

I write about things like this in blog posts, because I am frustrated, but also to write what is actually happening. If anyone came to Dickinson, they would experience the same thing, and perhaps even worse. Most people would go to the liquor store or to the bar on a Friday evening like this. This is why most out of state workers get a DUI in Dickinson. It sucks here so bad, but you can’t drink, or the police will get you.