Oh How Time Flies...
Well, I was cruising through this rabble today and realized it has been nearly a year since I graduated and got my shiny disco patch and since I last posted. I sat and stared at the screen, thinking of something interesting to write and can't seem to come up with anything good. However, I will give a brief overview of the last year and then leave with the promise to chronicle some good stuff soon.
I finished up school last spring and tested in June. The test was odd; for those of you out there studiously cramming for the National Registry I have only this advice: Know everything and know it well. The test leaves you feeling confused and disoriented as well as convinced that you have failed. The new computer based testing supposedly gauges your abilities and quits asking questions if you are too smart or too stupid. No one seems to know what it does if you are teetering on the edge of both. It kicked me off at 80 questions, and I passed.
Soon after becoming a bonafide paramedic I was lent out to our state firefighting agency and mostly fought wildland fire all season. As some of you may know, we had a record year out here in the west and burned a lot of land and spent a lot of money. It was a blast, I love wildland fire and the whole monstrous machine that it has created.
As fall came on I took my first ever trip to the renowned event Burning Man. I tagged along with my wife and her sister who have both been several times. What a blast. I have signed up to volunteer as a fire / EMS person this next fall and am looking forward to working the event. I met some the fire and EMS folks out there and they seem like an awesome crew. Medics and firefighters from all over the country volunteer, so it seemed like a place where I could learn a lot and make some great friends.
As winter is coming to an end, I am again looking forward to a busy summer. We are hiring some new folks, so things should be interesting around here for a bit. I will do my best to post some new stories. Much to my surprise, I actually have a reader or two out there.
I just wanted to throw a question out there to see if anyone knows the answer. What ever happened to flatlinenyc? Perhaps the greatest EMS blog ever has been idle for nearly two years! Let me know if you know.
I finished up school last spring and tested in June. The test was odd; for those of you out there studiously cramming for the National Registry I have only this advice: Know everything and know it well. The test leaves you feeling confused and disoriented as well as convinced that you have failed. The new computer based testing supposedly gauges your abilities and quits asking questions if you are too smart or too stupid. No one seems to know what it does if you are teetering on the edge of both. It kicked me off at 80 questions, and I passed.
Soon after becoming a bonafide paramedic I was lent out to our state firefighting agency and mostly fought wildland fire all season. As some of you may know, we had a record year out here in the west and burned a lot of land and spent a lot of money. It was a blast, I love wildland fire and the whole monstrous machine that it has created.
As fall came on I took my first ever trip to the renowned event Burning Man. I tagged along with my wife and her sister who have both been several times. What a blast. I have signed up to volunteer as a fire / EMS person this next fall and am looking forward to working the event. I met some the fire and EMS folks out there and they seem like an awesome crew. Medics and firefighters from all over the country volunteer, so it seemed like a place where I could learn a lot and make some great friends.
As winter is coming to an end, I am again looking forward to a busy summer. We are hiring some new folks, so things should be interesting around here for a bit. I will do my best to post some new stories. Much to my surprise, I actually have a reader or two out there.
I just wanted to throw a question out there to see if anyone knows the answer. What ever happened to flatlinenyc? Perhaps the greatest EMS blog ever has been idle for nearly two years! Let me know if you know.
posted by Slack at 1:03 PM
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