So I had a few inventory things to do at the fire department today. I thought it would be a good idea for me to put my gear on a vehicle so that if the career staff went on any calls while I was there taking care of business I could run the calls with them. The ambulance has a student doing a ride along so I got on the engine. Before I even put ( Read more... )

Thursday I took the day to go to Firehouse Expo in Baltimore. This was a work trip where I was on the clock but paying for my own trip. Ehhh, it was fine since I did me-stuff and Dunn Loring-stuff while I was there.
Round trip: 120 miles.

( what a great day of motorcycling and such )

As mentioned in my previous post, I am an idiot ( Read more... )

I am in Boulder, CO ( Read more... )

So, I was supposed to run an ambulance Saturday night from about 19:00 to 07:00 Sunday. I needed to get a couple of things set up for bingo (which I am inexplicably in charge of for the corporation). so I came in a little early: 17:30. Mainly I needed to figure out how to reprogram the bingo machine. I called and emailed 4 people looking for the ( Read more... )

So a few days ago I was talking to Lesley about something completely unrelated and she said, "It's nice to feel useful. It's nice to feel appreciated." The first thing I thought about was Shana. Shana put in a lot of work at our fire department while she was there but for a number of reasons (involving largely departmental problems) that I ( Read more... )

( LJ-Cut most of the cool story that makes me very proud. )