New Year, New Adventures

Since I haven't written in a while, let me start by saying, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...

Now, that's out of the way, let me tell you about my latest adventures. 

At Christmas, my parents got Allison, Olivia & I a Wii. I have to admit, it's an awesome console! After Xmas, I started looking at for accessories for our new gaming console. The first thing we bought was the Wii Fit Plus. That is really fun! We've played in some cases where Allison has done nothing but laugh at me for an hour straight because of how foolish I look.

The second thing that I bought was a Wii gun adapter, so that when I buy Call of Duty, I would get into the game. Well, didn't that cause a whole other set of issues.... Lets just say that Codiac RCMP had to get involved... That's a whole other blog post.

So, I kept my eyes open for sales of games & such... While Allison & I were shopping at Zellers, we stopped in the gaming section & started to look at the display case. I noticed that Call of Duty, World at War was on sale for $39, $20 savings... I quickly grabbed that & headed for the cash. When the cashier rang it in, the bar code rang it in at $19 (technically $40 savings) instead of the $39... what a steal! (No RCMP involvement this time)

The New Year has also treated us well so far. We've been lucky enough to not have any major snow storms yet, so I don't have to worry about getting up really early to snowblow the driveway to get out.

In case you were wondering what the story was behind my Ipod, nothing has chnaged... it's lost to me forever! Kinda sucks, but I've learned my lesson!

On a last note, I've now become a permanent Ops Manager with NBEMS. I'm really happy about that! The only down side about my job, that I've noticed is that it takes me away from Firefighting. I find I don't have as many opportunities to go to calls, either because I'm at work or they are all medical calls.

Well, that's about it for me for now!!

'til next time!

How's it going?

Well, isn't that a loaded question. So far, the course is extremely harder then I could have ever imagined, considering that I was told that there was 2 weeks of training & then we'd be on the phones.

Well, that's not quite what is happening. We have 4 weeks of training & then 4 rotations (4 working days & 5 days off) of preceptership and once that is complete, we finally start on our own. So, it was a small shock to the system when I first found that out!

Well finally today, I was able to go & sign my letter of employment I'm officially temporarily employed by SERHA, at least until Dec 16 when Ambulance New Brunswick takes over.

I can't really complain. I mean, so far I have only failed 1 test where I have 3 fails maximum.

As you can see by my posting time below, it's almost 4am and I've actually just gotten back from PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) for a listen along & I found it very interesting. The two places are very similar in the service that they provide (answering 911 calls & sending out help: ie: ambulance or police/fire); however, the set up & software is completely different. I'm anxious to see (if I make it that far) what ANB is going to bring to the table.

Well, I just wanted to give a quick run down & maybe non of this makes much sense; however, I don't want to post-edit it either as this is "Another Day in the Life of Joel".

Have a great night, I'll certainly try!

'til next time!