me so tired

so last night around 220am we got punched out for a house fire on route 50. it's the abandoned home just west of 28 right near the fairfax / loudoun county lines. we were the second due in engine (19 was first). Cool thing was it was actually in fairfax. oops! ;)


oh - it's hard to tell in this pic, but i'm on the crew on the front (side able) of the house with the hoseline.

wheeee





all i can say is this is some fun stuff.

great email quote

So apparently i'm on the membership committee at my firestation. I learned this via email today.

this, however, isn't the point to this brief post. there was a statement in the email that cracked me up.

Please note that it is with regret that we inform you that [name withheld], an approved candidate and prospective member suffered a cardiac arrest in our parking lot while attempting to attend a duty crew. He survived but to my knowledge is no longer considering membership with Arcola.

Ungrateful bastard. :P

Dammit Jim!

So the last few months i've been even more of a social hermit than normal. why? well a) my schedule from class takes up most of my time, and b) i'm terrified of going out doing something (riding 211, snowboarding (yeah i know - no snow... yet)) that dramatically increases my chance of injury.

Sounds silly, but recently i was called the most accident prone person on the planet by Andy.

Well his words were prophetic.

bastard.

Last night - while playing tag with my kitties, i ran up the stairs and heard (well mostly felt) a loud 'popping' sound from my lower left extremity. Basically i somehow tore the hell out of my achillies tendon right below my calf. ouch.

fortuntely, despite the perpetucal muscle cramping and the 'mild discomfort' I don't think it will prevent me from doing all my stuff in fireschool - just make me a little bit slower.

So much for playing it safe - who know playtime with cats had such risks?

You better watch out...

So last night I learned the value of attending the monthly membership meetings at my firestation. I was in class (which is going well - and keeps me too busy to post stuff here), and subsequently was unable to be at the meeting.

So now I'm going to be Santa Claus at our upcoming xmas parades.

Oh, the vote was unanimous.