Bottle Caps as WMD

So Friday I was at RFK Stations watching the Nationals beat the Blue Jays. (bastards)

While at the game, I of course ordered the traditional hotdogs ($4 each) and some water bottles ($3 each).

They handed me the dogs and the water bottles, but only after taking off their caps.

"Can I have the caps please, I don't want to spill the water as my hands are full."

"Sorry sir, we have to take them for security reasons.

WTF!?

The threat from bottle caps is real my friends. At the Republican convention in NYC last year, they also banned water bottles at the Republican convention last September.

So next time you see someone in a public place drinking water, and smugly putting the cap back on the bottle - be even more alert because you never know - they might be a terrorist.

Speed anyone?

and I'm not talking about the kind on my bike...


Seems on monday at the firehouse we had a special agent from the Drug Enforcement Agency Clandestine Lab team come and give us a presentation.

It was pretty sweet. Seems that meth labs are more and more commend, and a few hundred first responders are killed everyyear because of them. This is why they came to teach us what the indicators are and who to call when we find one.

I also learned a couple neat things....
1)apparently the term for meth heads are "Tweekers"
2) how to do a one pot cook of speed in a 2 litre bottle in only an hour.

Neat stuff...

Exam Update

Last week I mentioned that I had an exam that i didn't want to take. Well i got the results back the other day.

Apparently i got the 2nd highest mark in the class.

wtf!

must have been a dumb class. Glad i won't be fighting fires side-by-side w/ those people.

Another great American Icon fades...

Looks like the company that makes Hostess Twinkies is going bankrupt.

What a sad ending to an American Icon that began in the 1930s will soon fade away.

And no, stocking up on them won't work. Apparently they really don't last forever.

Bummer. I remember when a Pepsi and a pack of Twinkies was the breakfast of champions.

98% done

Moving sucks.

Almost done.

Special thanks to Lara and Mark for your help this weekend. You guys rock.

Today after work - I'll grab the last couple things...

then the art of unpacking-fu will be needed.

bleh.

Moving sucks.

Ouch! Medic!

So last night I was asked to go to the Loudoun County Fire Academy” to help out the EMT B class with their County EMT exam by being a 'trauma patient.' It was pretty fun.

They gave me some old clothes (to be cut up) and gave me a mock 'flailed chest' injury. Most of the teams that 'treated' me were pretty decent. One team from 6 were very good.

The sucky part of course is that the pressure bandage used to treat the 'wound' is taped to my bare chest.

My bare, moderately furry chest.

Ouch.

So now I have a partial wax job courtesy Loudoun County.

Ouch indeed.

Exam Day!

so tonight i have an exam.

At least i think i do.

it's for this class that my fire chief wanted me to go to. it's been fun - but with my having been ill (bronchitis a couple weeks back), new job (i actually have to do things at this one), and moving (my house is sold next monday), i missed a couple classes.

fortunately i already an very solid in the material (fire behaviour etc).

unfortunately, i don't know if i can actually take the exam because i might not have the hours.

the saturday before last was 'a make up class' - i went and no one showed. i probably went to the wrong station.

this class has gone horribly awry, but hopefully i'll be able to sit the exam and even more hopefull i'll know enough to pass it.

bleh.

My hovercraft is full of eels

حَوّامتي مُمْتِلئة بِأَنْقَلَيْسون

Tacky, but funny

I just read this post from Andy's Blog. I agree, it's pretty damned funny.