Good Morning y’all! Nuttin’ much to say here (hah! big surprise you say?). Got stuff to finish up here this morning and hoping for a quiet peacful day. Which means, of course, all hell will break loose before the day’s over.
I missed FCM’s Birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FAIRY CHAT MOM!
*::: throws confetti, 'just cause she always does ::: *
I spent the day in orientation for the new job. Kinda boring, kinda interesting. I watched a couple videos (HIPAA, OSHA, stretcher operation, Why You Should Always Wear Your Seat Belt, that kinda thing), had a tour of the facility, got my spiffy new uniforms, filled out umpteen million forms, and had my driving training course.
Today and tomorrow I go and have a ride-along with another crew and Monday I go in for my first official day.
Very excited!
Bibs, I’ve got a serious question for you; I’m in a quandary.
I have fire schools the last 2 weekends of February, and EMT-B starts next week. Sure as I’m typing this, I have an automatic class schedule conflict. Without seeing the schedule, I’m pretty sure EMT is going to be T-Th-Sa.
FWIW, one class is the smoke house, and the other is hazmat awareness. Hazmat was decreed by the chief as a “You go, or else” situation.
I committed to the fire schools before the EMT class happened, and I want the experience all 3 offer. What would you do?
Hmm, not sure if I understand your question. You have Fire 1 class (a burn day, if I understand correctly?), an EMT class and Hazmat class all the same day?
Which one can you miss? Obviously not Hazmat. You can miss some of the early EMT stuff, but not the later classes. Burn days were always fun, and were required. This is a quandry.
I don’t know - talk to your chief and explain the situation. Are there later hazmat classes offered? Do you already have your hazmat certification, and this is just a refresher - something that could be made up later?
The smoke house is a burn simulator, not a house. I’ve assumed the Hazmat is a given, because for me it will be the first time through, besides being decreed.
I guess I’ll talk to the instructor and the chief. I’m probably making this a bigger problem than it is IRL, because the fire and EMS crossover happens all the time. I’ll see what I can do about making up the EMT material.
Yeah, VBob present your quandry to the chief - he’s got the final say on what you’ll be doing for the squad anyway. He’ll probably have you rescedule the EMT-B class to later, and maybe even pull a string or two to make sure you get it.
As for the cable, I cleared it with the ship to reuse what they had. See, because we are a factory-authorized repair facility for this manufacturer (who, by the way, recently declared Chap 11 so that they can shed some debt and be bought by another company and get back into the game) we really can’t send something out unless it meets their specs. The cable was just fine for what they were using it for (6 feet of 3-conductor), but all of those units are required to have 8 feet of a 6-conductor (LSMCOS-6) cable on it. But the LSMCOS-6 hasn’y been made, as far as I can tell, since 2004, and all the normal outlets were out of stock. We were going to replace it with a run of LSMHOF-7, and that’s the cable that didn’t get picked up in Atlanta. So since we were going to use the non-required replacement anyway, I convinced everyone that we might as well just use what the ship had in the first place. I convinced everyone except our QA Inspector, that is. Now I have to go up against the fearsome prescence of, yes, Mandy The Martian. I better bring something shiny to throw on the floor to distract her.
It’s usually a lot of fun being me. Not so much this week.
Jahdra you said you bought date clothes? Tell us about the date.
I forgot to say, Rebo I enjoyed rearranging your face last night, along with FCM’s. 
I made somebody mad at me. Ask me if I care. See, I have a friend who usually cuts my hair. However, he has not gone to work for the past two weeks. He said he’d be there yesterday but when I called to ask for him, I was told he didn’t come in again. Really, she said it like that. “He didn’t come in… again.” I could hear the italics over the phone. So, I finally decided that was it. I needed a haircut and dangitall, I was gettin’ me a haircut, so I asked her if she’d cut my hair if I came by after work, and she said yes. So I did and am now all properly shorn. Well, last night, friend called to tell me he didn’t go to work (DUH!). I told him I knew that cause I called to make sure he was there so I could get a haircut. I also told him that his boss cut my hair since he wasn’t there. He proceded to get all mad and hurt actin’ cause I did that. :rolleyes: Again, ask me if I care. I waited on him to cut it for two weeks. There’s y’all some gay drama to brighten up your day.
Poor kitty!
In that second picture, he’s clearly saying “Just you wait til I’m big enough to claw your eyes out!!”
I’m gonna have a crappy day. Because, at the END of a 2 hour meeting with 40 people last night, the principal of the school where new classroom construction is key to the plan we started on, announces to me and the 2 Asst. Superintendents that said new construction will NOT done by August.
Thus imploding two hours worth of work and probably killing some credibility in the process. I’m off to meet the honchos to develop Plan B.
Hey all. I am off to the hospital for some labwork and an EKG and CXR (chest Xray).
Yesterday was so horrible at work, I can’t even express it. My NM is evil and the Director makes Hannibal Lecter look like Mr Rogers. They came up and just spewed venom for most of our shift–they made another nurse cry. What is wrong with people?
41 more shifts.
Sorry to dump this on you. I get beautiful late today–hair appointment. And Robbie Burns Night on Friday! Yay! Need to find some bawdy poetry…
Sorry, didn’t read page 3, no time. Hope all is well, hello to all newbies, sorry about the bad thing, hope things get better, get well soon etc…
Today is going to be a bleh day, I can feel it already. I’m going to spend it all working on E&M homework, followed by proctoring and grading the first exam in the class I’m TAing.
He’s selling himself to make a little money on the side, it seems. As for me, he’s being packed in my lunches for the cottage cheese & fruit things I bought.
And all you sickies? Feel better! The Spats has spoken.
(((rigs)))
Thanks for the lovely drama, swampy.
At ten-thirty I will get off the computer and do a lot of chores. At noon Mom’s taking me out to lunch and out for the Disposing of Unwanted Crap via Goodwill. It will be awesome to get three bags of clothes, candleholders, and really ugly candy dishes out of my house.
Tonight is RCIA. I think we’re talking about the Rite of Initiation. dogbutler, gt, will this involve thumbscrews?
I don’t want to feel better! I want to have the grump! So there!
Mind you, I’d rather have the grump without chillblains. examines itchy spot on hand to make sure it’s not a chillblain
I believe the Rite of Initiation involves oil and candles and water. Dunnow if anybody has thought of using one of those things where you put a candle in the bottom and scented oil on top… maybe you could get one big enough to make it a floating candle on the bottom and scented oil on top! No thumbscrews involved. There’s usually music, which depending on who’s singing may or may not count as torture.
It’s at our church. It will be torture.
Prepares for fifteen choruses of Gather Us In and Marching in the Light of God
About chillblains- I’ve never had them. How do you avoid getting them, and what are they like?
Gah! jahdra, the kitty is cute but the rest of those knitted whasises were downright disturbing…particularly the guts one. Why would anyone WANT to knit that?? For that matter why would anyone want to knit a lampshade sweater??? 
nava, I just sent out a press release to go to major publications in Spain. I at least remembered to tell them to release it on GMT. I looked that up on Google cause I wasn’t sure of the time zone. I wish I had bought some Google stock back in the day. I could probably retire now.
It has finally gotten seasonal here. By that I mean that it is in the sixties murkin. We have really been spoiled this winter. This I can live with. Anything lower, though, and I’ll be whining.
Tupug (off to google chillblains).
Ewwwwwwww!! Linky-link
The description is inaccurate unless one wishes to consider that -10C is “temperate”. I realize kai may think of -10C as “spring is coming”, but hell.
You get them if you change from “very cold” to “very hot”: for example you’ve been shoveling snow outside and then go in and stick your hands on top of the radiator to warm them up fast. Avoiding getting them wet (ski gloves) and avoiding sudden temperature changes helps.
They itch so bad you wish you could cut that part off, but you shouldn’t scratch because it doesn’t help at all and may help the skin break; the center hurts a lot. Arnica helps. I had chillblains when I was in Philly and for a couple days I wondered why did I bother put the cap back on the arnica lotion: as soon as it dried off, my fingers would start itching like crazy again. So I can certify that arnica lotion does not in any way damage computer keyboards and mice
Good morning everyone.
Much craziness ensues here at work. I’m tired of being tired. I’m being directed to do stuff that’s not really in my area, and consequently, stuff that I really need to be doing is not gettin done. I’ve talked to the boss, but he just rearranges my priorities. :mad: :rolleyes:
I’m TELLING him that I’m staying late tonight because I can’t get it all done during the day. He can put the request in for comp time. It’s either that, or he quits dumping stuff on me that should be going to another person.
Rigs, hugs to you. Hope all gets better soon.
Well, I should dig into work. Not that I want to. I’m damn sick of being overwhelmed and just being told to expect more.
Well, I’m up. I called in sick to work this morning. In addition to the racking coughs, my entire upper torso aches from extended muscle use during those expectoration fits. I would have slept longer but any position I slept in actually hurt. Bleh. I haven’t had a cold attack my chest like this for years. Icky!
I need tea.
Aw, man. Spoons has really sunk low since his radio days. I hope he’s not lactose intolerant…
Okay, off to get tea.
Only if it’s done right.
So is QD still interested in joining us?
She’s signed up. I think she’s just being lazy. I will beat her until she joins us here.
It’s going to be -20 here on Monday. Today is a nice, balmy -8. Maybe it’s because you’re not that used to cold, or have poor circulation? I don’t think I know anyone who’s had chillblains before.
Hmm. I think I should spend the next half hour figuring out where to go for lunch.