The Cone Course

This morning seemed to come early. I got up and went to the Deuce for engineer training. Chapman gave me the keys to the gate and send me up there to start to set up the road course. He and Reed had to take the Engine to station one before showing up. I got a lot of the cones set up before they arrived.

I was the first one to do the cones I hit one cone along the way. It was only because I did not realize that we could re-position the Engine. That would have been the only time I needed to do it. When I was done Reed did his cone test. We both passed on the first time. Afterwards we put the Engine inside the tower and sprayed water. I had a chance to practice being the Engineer setting up the rig and pumping water.

While pumping water a grass fire call came out. We unhooked the stuff and got ready to go. Only to be cancelled as soon as we went en route. We went back into the tower parking area and reloaded the hose. I had to leave to do the homerun derby, but I did not think it was going to happen.

Joe, Matt, and I did show up, I let Joe know about Eric’s E-mail about postponing this until next week sometime. We all left. I got lunch and went to the Deuce to wait for Chapman and Reed. They decided to do weekly rig checks. I helped them out with it. Just was we were getting close to being done we got called out to a natural gas smell.

We went to the scene but just waited around in Rescue. Andrew came out at the end and came to Rescue. He said that we are going to block off a five-hundred foot radius and give Reed a flare and see if he can find the source. We all got a chuckle out of that.

We were put back in service. I left the station shortly after getting the final touches on the weekly rig checks completed. I went to the city playfields to watch the Zeppoz Co-Ed team play ball. It was the My Office team, but they switched sponsors. A lot of the My Office guys are on the team as well as couple old My Office guys, such as Dan and Carl. It was great to see the team out there.

It was around eight-thirty and I planned on going to Davolts to play poker. I bought in for ten bucks and lost that over some time. I bought in for another ten bucks. I was playing really loose. Later we switched to Omaha. By that time I was starting to win money. Then in Omaha I won a lot more. I ended up leaving with forty-five buck total. I had one hand where I had the best hand when someone called all-in. I knew he was on a draw. But I called him, hoping the draw would not hit. This is the same guy who hit the Royal Flush on me last week.

After we were done Kristin and Andy talked about the old times at High School and all the drama in their lives, etc. It was pretty interesting to hear about all the problems and family issues of the other people. I did not leave until almost three-thirty in the morning. I was so tired I went fast asleep.