This weekend was a fun one which much anticipation of the snowfall. I slept with the curtains open checking out the window much of Friday night only to realize no snow fell at all in the NW Metro...d'oh ( Read more... )

This week was rather uneventful, but if you're anything like me you're smiling from ear to ear watching the western skies for a snowstorm that Paul Douglas ranked between "plowable" and "crippling" on the snowfall scale. There's no snow on the ground here or up north, as most of you can probably attest to, but this is the chance to change all that ( Read more... )

Well as I lay here sick for yet another day, I can at least rest easy since Mr. Refresher is behind me. The next 24 months will go too fast... I'm still confused as I had other EMTs tell me they don't have to test in the fashion we did, basically I was told they aren't re-taking the practicals as we were. I never got the whole story or ( Read more... )

I suppose I am a redneck since one of the highlights of my weekend was Monster Trucks, but what can I say? They're fun, simple entertainment. Plus I got to see Tony and catch up with him. It was fun, though the last final act: "Grave Digger", flipped over about 10 seconds in to his freestyle event. I also got my bank card back from Alary's when ( Read more... )

Tuesday night was EMT Refresher again, it wasn't so bad though I know my weak point is re-learning the patient assesments. Afterwards I ran back to MLFD and caught the guys and found out the snowmobile test drive was out but that they were going to LoneSpur so I tagged along to see how the night went ( Read more... )

So yesterday was a full work day and a PFD shift from 1800-2100. I was covering for good ol' Todd and for the first couple hours I started to think my streak of bad luck was continuing. We did a 'Pub Ed' with a pack of kindergarten aged Girl Scouts (daisy scouts or something to that effect??) and showed them around, pictures, all the good stuff ( Read more... )

So I just wanted to make a note of what the past days included. The weekend was a mix of activities, but on Sunday night I met up with Jurgen and Matt Hedtke for the first time in many years. it was a lot of fun and there was so much to catch up on. It's amazing to see how much people change and how much they stay the same. I am sure the same ( Read more... )

On a side note, two months ago this morning was the famous Medicine Lake fire. Seems like it was years ago now, but it still comes up in conversation and I was just asked some stuff about it from a complete stranger on Saturday afternoon ( Read more... )

It's amazing how these blogs and so-on come and go. With the network of people formed on Myspace.com (we're not even going to get into facebook) it can be pretty hard to justify wandering LiveJournal. Not to mention all the features of Myspace: pictures, bulletins, blogs, etc. But I liked the simplicity of LiveJournal, too. *sigh* I guess the ( Read more... )

This week I've done a few more things and somehow wound up at Scoreboard more than once. One night was to meet up with Lisa and fill each other in on the past two years of our lives. So we grabbed a patio seat and had some drinks after work. It was fun ( Read more... )