Happy Birthday Ryan!

Today is Ryan’s birthday. I was up pretty late last night so I did not wake up until about ten this morning. I went to Ryan’s house in Spokane. I got there around one in the afternoon. It was hot inside. He showed me around the house. It is a pretty nice place. I gave him his birthday card and then we went to downtown Spokane to get some pizza.

We went to a really good pizza place. The pizza was outstanding actually. We were there for around an hour eating and talking. I had to take off to go back to Pullman because I was on call for the fire department. I made phone calls and we made plans for a dinner together. Chris and Dan were going to get some chicken. The rest of us brought side items down.

I got back to Pullman and to the fire station just before six o’clock. Dan was working on the chicken to grill it. We had BBQ chicken and potato salad. While we were eating I was thinking that if we got called out we would have BBQ sauce all over us when we got to the scene. Within seconds of me thinking that a call went out. It was to the same guy who had asked me for some money yesterday and who we went on a while back for something else.

We did not transport him and I got back to my dinner within a half hour. I helped to clean up everything and then gave everyone an ice cream bar. We then started our map test that we planned on taking. I had studied it on Saturday and I got one hundred percent on it.

After all that we still had to do rig checks. With the new guys I had them open and go through everything on Rescue. It took a couple hours to do that. We got everything done and noted. We were done a little after midnight.

Chuck and I spoke a little about Erik’s E-mail that made me really mad the other day. I was not as mad after I found out it did not go to the whole department, but only to some of the reserves. But I was still mad that he made a false accusation and his shift does the same thing that he accused me of doing. I wanted to tell him to make sure his shift is doing thing right before he lectures me on it.

I went to Mike’s to play some cards. We were only going to play until one in the morning. I have Jury Duty in the morning so I did not want to be late for it. I was playing pretty loose and had a couple of bad beats. I lost ten bucks pretty fast. I got five more dollars. I lost that a quarter till one. So it was close to quitting time. I went to my office to get stuff ready for being on Jury Duty and making sure my away messages were set up correctly. Just after I got to the office, the tones went off for a call. It took us about an hour total so I did not get to bed until after two in the morning.