Years of Worry over Nothing

I have worried about something Michelle and I did way back in the day. I remember Lisa once saying “BUMBLEBEE, SHE’S ONLY FIFTEEN!!!” That of course has weighed on me over the years. I always thought I had technically, maybe did something wrong. Rather than know for sure I decided to bury my head in the sand and figure to have some deniability is always a good thing.

But coming into this upcoming polygraph I have to make a decision. I need to either find out the truth and tell it, or try to cover up what, in my heart, I felt was a lie. That is a tough choice. On one hand I realized that I could put all my jobs in jeopardy if I lied. On the other hand if I told the truth I could be looked down upon and it could still be bad. But I made up my mind that I needed to be honest. I am disappointed in myself that I even questioned the idea of not being “truthful” with what was in my heart.

So I looked up the laws. From everything I found if She was more than sixteen then I was okay. If she was less that sixteen but more than twelve we needed to be less than forty-eight months apart. Now I had to find out how old she was. I made a phone call and got her finally. We chatted for a little bit, then I asked when she was born.

She wanted to know why I wanted to know. I told her about the job. She asked if I was using her as a reference. I sort of skirted that issue. I got her date of birth and did some quick math. Not only are we less than forty-eight months apart, she was SIXTEEN and a HALF!!! I was worried over all these years for nothing. But the problem is that you cannot take years worth of doubt and wash it out of the mind and heart in a matter of hours.

I felt better about now telling the real truth, and not some made up version where I thought I did nothing wrong, but did not know for sure.

Only Days to Back out

I am debating on backing out of the polygraph which would make it so I could not get hired. Part of me is thinking that the marine patrol would make me too busy and too dependant on being in Seattle more often. The other part of me thinks that is just an excuse because I am running from the unknown. That unknown being Michelle of course.

Staying for Training

I was planning on heading out to Seattle tonight because of the Polygraph test coming up, but I decided that if I require the other to be at Monday night training I too should be there. So I will be making my way to Seattle early in the morning.

Day Two on Jeopardy

Dave was on Jeopardy for day two. He is the returning champion and Ben and I have gotten together to watch and root Dave on.

As the game moves along Dave builds a big lead and goes into final Jeopardy with a victory sealed up. Unless he pulled a Cliff Claven he could not lose. He indeed won and will move on to day three.

Dave Meddish on Jeopardy

I saw an article in the Daily Evergreen about a WSU employee being on Jeopardy. I started to read it and I saw it was Dave! I e-mailed everyone on the softball team and some other people that I knew. It was pretty exciting that he was on the show.

I had fire training tonight for the new guys on the department. I went to the station around five o’clock and helped George get everything ready. As people showed up I made it a point to introduce myself. While Jeopardy was on I watched the episode in the next room. I was getting so excited as he was moving towards a victory. Ben called me during a commercial and said it was more fun than a football game.

Dave ended up winning twenty-thousand and one dollars and is going to play tomorrow to defend his championship.

Peter was planning on coming over to watch Saw with me. I got some pizza and Tricky Stix. We watched Saw and then he hung out with me for another couple hours. He did not take off until nearly four in the morning.

A Near Victory

Tonight’s Flag Football game had a couple new guys on the team including KC who will be playing for the Thunder come this Spring. He is a good player. We started the game by having the other team drive down the field for a touchdown but they missed the extra point. Following that we went three-and-out. But after that it was downhill for us!

We started to click and score some points. Soon we had a lead. But on an extra point attempt we were intercepted for a loss of three points. But we ran an interception back for a touchdown. When it was nearly done we had about one minute to go and they needed to go the length of the field for a score. Plus they would need a two-point conversion for the victory.

As it turned out they got a really long pass play for the touchdown and ended up making the two point conversion. We had only thirteen seconds on the clock. We took a shot for then endzone but the ball was intercepted and we lost the game.

It was a fun game. Afterwards Richard and I stood in the parking lot for about twenty minutes talking about random things. I found out Erin will be in town to play dodgeball on Sunday. That is good news for the team.

Happy Halloween

Michael asked me to cover for him for a couple hours tonight so he could take his kids trick-or-treating. We had one call during that time. I also got a chance to watch House. As always a fun episode.

Following being on duty I met up with someone from Montana who is going to rent my apartment. That makes me feel good that that loose end is tied up. Now I just need to worry about getting the moving party set up and figure out how I am going to do my free-roll tournament.

I got my costume on and went to ValHalla to meet up with Ben. But by the time I got inside and looked around I could not find him anywhere. Finally I got him on the phone and he had gone home. I had been inside for about an hour. I then left myself. But I saw a few people I knew in there including Garrett’s little brother Grant. As well as Seiler.

The big one is done

I had a big enhancement that I have been working on the last couple days. It touches a lot of different areas and I needed to figure out how to make everything work with it. There were some gotcha’s along the way, but I finally won. It felt good to check in all the parts and pages that I created and updated to make this enhancement finished.

I also got a call from the Sgt of the boat patrol. He said he wants to move forward with me and he is going to have me meet up with the polygraph people and do a background on me.

Mercer Island Boat Patrol

I got into town this morning and called the Sgt about the boat patrol. He had me come in today to meet up with him to talk about the boat patrol. Before I did that I called Peter and we did The PES. We ended up having to have him on his cell phone and do a three-way call. I called the studio line to get on the air, and I called Peter to hear what he was saying. What a pain in the neck. But we had a good show. We mainly talked about property rights and the death tax.

Following the show I went to Mercer Island and talked to the Sgt and his main EMT about the boat patrol, what he was looking for, etc. It seems like it could be pretty cool. It is not just a summer job like Heston was thinking, this is more of a long term part-time employment. Several Reserves had called him about doing this, but I think once they find out what he wants, they may not do it.

I told him about my experience at the fire department. I think I impressed him when I was able to mention some things I learned about the program by reading the Mercer Island Website ahead of time.

At the end of the interview I also let me know that I was a full-time corrections officer. He said academy trained? He seemed excited when I told him that. I think I nailed a good one when I added that piece of information.

Pump and Roll Training

While at work today I got an E-mail from Heston reguarding employment on a Mercer Island boat patrol. I jokingly asked Heston if he would miss me this summer. He sent me contact information for the Sgt in charge of the boat patrol.

I called him up and he wants me to meet with him when I got to Seattle next week.

I got Drew to come in and do the Pump and Roll training with everyone on my shift. Now we are one step closer to being finished with the necessary items in order to get Tyson and Keith checked off on the Rescue and get them to be the second guys on the rig.

We were planning on staying the night down at the station tonight but Anthony backed out so Tyson and I decided not to stay there. Really it was a pretty quiet night anyway.