It's rainy....and I love it.
So we all got maced last week. Sweet Jesus it was the most painful thing I've ever experienced! I was sprayed around 1:30-2:00 or so and my face and eyes were still on fire well past 9:30. We each sprayed our DT partners....stood in front of each other arms extended touching fist to fist. Then the parnter sprayed with their arm fully extended aiming directly in our eyes. It's a shock at first....it's a sudden burn...like you think you're face is melting off and you're eyes have liquified and are pouring out of the sockets...and you gag...you can breathe/gasp, but it's such a shock to your system that you have to mentally tell yourself to keep going even though your body is freaking out. In order to see the suspect you literally had to pry your eye open with your non gun hand. Even still, it was a struggle to pry that sucker open and your vision is temporarily completely fucked up. Plus it was in the high 80s to low 90s...sun beating down on us, pores wide open....oh man! I will never forget that afternoon.
I passed the test though...I shot the suspect and then fought my partner for a minute or two....then I stuck my face in the fountain in the parking lot and planted my ass in front of a fan to cool off my face. It took about 30 minutes before I could even open my eyes half way.
We went in to uniform today. It's pretty cool how wearing the uniform makes me feel....I actually felt like police. Everyone's chest kind of puffed up a little bit today.
So the man I'm sort of seeing was over last night....he asked me how long we've been talking/seeing each other. I was like..."uh...I don't know. " He said he was thinking about it on his way home from work. I didn't know guys think about that kind of stuff. Some of the things he's said leads me to to think some things....don't feel like going in to it.... but so far I like the way things are.
An old face will be passing through town this weekend. I've agreed to a drink...we'll see how that goes. It'll probably be cool. I haven't seen him since January of 2006. I haven't told my "friend-friend" about it yet....maybe I will, maybe I won't.