Another trip around the sun.

January 1st, 2006

Thank you for riding the friendly skys with Earth Airlines. I hope you enjoy your day.

Today is the day where I go through my whole blog for the year to discover what blurbs from each month I should post in this post as my review of the events that make me who I am.

JanHeading to the Super Bowl – A radio station I listen to has a contest for 8 people to ride on a shortbus from Seattle to the SuperBowl. Along the way people would be kicked off, Survivor style. The winner gets to choose one of the remaining two people to go into the game with them.

FebMurder in a Small Town – At seven o’clock am my phone rang, it was a number from Pullman. It was Whitcom and the dispatcher said “Hi there has been a murder.” I thought for half a second still in a near-slumber I said “in Pullman?” referring to what Pete told me last night. I was told that it was in Endicott.

MarFriendship with Ben Blossoms – I got a call from Ben to start out my morning. We planning on meeting up and doing a short golf lesson and hitting the a bucket of balls. I met Ben at the golf course I paid my fees and bought a bucket of balls. I pulled out the seven iron and he started by telling me a lot of things about stance, holding the club, and the swing.

AprThe Reason for Creating PA Announcer – I had a real hard time at first trying to say the offense and defense players when they made the play plus all the announcements. Finally I decided that I would only do defense if it was quick and easy. Other than that I only announced the offense. I think I started to better after that. I still made a few errors with saying things. I got tongue tied at times. But over all I think I did an okay job.

MayBombs Away Tournament Against the Tax Dodgers – My first at bat I saw they had the right fielder playing in and about ten feet from the line. They know where I like to hit too well. So I had to look somewhere else for a hit. I found an hole. I hit it hard. In the following innings I got more pitches across and we were getting outs. I came up with two guys on base looking for a hard hit, I hit it to center field where it flew out. It was a homerun. Then an inning or two later, I came up with the bases loaded and hit a grand slam to left field. I was hitting the ball well this tournament. We beat them sixteen to three.

JunWorking from Home – After lunch Chris had his meeting with Diane. Then he asked to talk to me. The company decided to give a ninety day trial where I would work the Pullman Fire Schedule. So it would more or less be about fifty percent of the month there and fifty percent here. I was stoked.

JulOfficially On Duty with Pullman Again – We went back to the station and knocked out the maintenance on Rescue thirty-two. We also cleaned the floor in the bay. Then we went to station one to fill the cascade system. Following that we headed to the training tower. I worked with the Junk Yard Dawgs to get some training on those. I had seen them the other night but I did not have hands on training on those.

AugSoftball World Series in San Diego – Then my last at bat the bases were loaded. I was looking for a good base hit. The team we were playing against were watching us yesterday and knew I could go to right field so they were playing that line pretty tight. So I was looking to go to left field. I just swung away. I was not trying to crush it, but I did. It burnt the outfielder. Then with the short grass it rolled and rolled. It went to the next field over. The field we are playing at have four fields and they share the same outfield. So when you hit one long enough it would go to the next field. Up to that time I had not seen someone do that. But mine kept going all the way to the infield of one of the other fields. I was running hard until I got to second base. I saw they were still running for my ball so I slowed down and jogged the rest of the way home. It was an inside the park grand slam.

SeptDoing my Radio Show Again – I had my radio show again today. I talked a little about the hurricane that hit New Orleans. I talked about other political topics. I talked about sports – Cougars, IM Sports, and the NFL. It was a good show and I got it recorded. I was going to record it using Mini-Disks. But I ended up using the Internet stream and Total Recorder on my computer in the office. That worked out really well. Better than the old way where I used cassette tapes.

OctCouging it all season long – Then the Cougs let UCLA back into the game only to go to overtime and lose the game. It was another case of Couging it. It was very bitter to say the least.

Nov.Net Launch Event – Ready to Launch is the Microsoft’s launch party name for Visual Studio.NET Ought-Five and SQL Server Ought-Five. For attending the all day event I got a copy of each of those applications. Both of which are expensive items.

DecDouble Murder/Suicide – But around seven in the evening a call came in for us to stand by at Stadium and Richie. We were waiting and listening to the police band. That is when I heard a cop says “two DOA?” The other responded “yes.” Then after listening some more I found out that once they entered they found one more person. I was really freaked out because it is odd to have that many people die in Pullman at once. I figured I would be doing a coroners case soon.

Once again it is hard to only pick out one thing each month. Some months I wanted to add more things. But I fought with myself over the entry I was going to choose and chose only one. I am sure that if I did this on a different day I would probably choose the same thing. So I am pretty sure my list is a good one for this year.

It was quite a year where I saw myself working from home, in Pullman. Getting back on Pullman Fire. Doing my radio show again and more. It has been great.

Today however was a good day. It is the new year and I spent the day working on my Quad-City Thunder website. I have put in a ton of hours on it over the weekend. I actually worked on it until about eight this morning. I was going to go to Colfax and do some laundry but I ended up sitting down in my chair in the office and falling asleep until my realtor called and said someone wanted to look at my place.

After that I got up and started to work on the application some more. I worked on it until it was time to go for vehicle maintenance at the fire station. That lasted for nearly three hours. While at station one we got free stuff from Papa Murphy’s. So we went to the deuce and cooked it. We got cheese bread, cinnamon rolls, and lasagna. It was good food. When I was done eating I watched some TV and I was going to leave in about five minutes when we got a call.

It was an alpha and we transported the patient to the hospital. Once we were done with that I went to my office and a little bit later we got called to another call. It turned out the cops caught someone red-handed breaking into apartments. I hate thieves. When we got back to the station I found that I left the caulk at the scene. I went there POV to get it. The cops were wondering about me so they sent someone to get me, but they got Travis instead because he had come to get the caulk as well. So they did not see me turn off and pulled Travis over instead. It was pretty funny. I talked to him on the phone a
bout that.


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