Early Start for a Late Night

After being up until five in the morning I was woken up by a phone call from Chuck at eight in the morning. He was telling me that the full-timers were going to have dinner at station one. They were going to get a movie for us and dessert though.

I went back to sleep until about ten in the morning. My plan was to go to Colfax and do some laundry and then I would be on call. But that is not what happened. I got up around ten in the morning. I went to my office and did some stuff on the computer and Internet for a while.

I called Keith and Tyson and invited them to get dinner at the Emerald before we went to the station at five for rig checks. While there we did got a call as we were leaving. Rescue went en route quickly so we would not have made it. They cancelled Rescue.

We did the rig checks and got another call in the process. While we were gone the others worked on the Engine. When Rescue got back we finished that off. It did not take as long as last week because I helped do stuff rather than having the new guys do everything. But Chuck wants the new guys to do a lot until they are familiar with the equipment and its location.

James had us do a drill where we wore blacked out goggles and hooked up the rit bag to an airpack. I was a little nervous because I had not done it, but I was able to get it done.

After the rig checks the full-timers got back. We watched Mother, Juggs, and Speed. It is an old ambulance movie with Bill Cosby. It was a pretty good movie. We also had some pie and ice cream. Following that I went home and got to sleep.