back into the groove....

Well if anyone actually reads this... I'm back. The past few months have been spent packing up, and realizing one of my life's goals. I have taken a job with Dekalb County Fire Rescue in Atlanta. After a year of traveling around testing for departments, I've picked them. My uncle lives in north Atlanta and he is so incredibly generous to let me shack up for a while. The things I wanted in my career dept was big, busy and progressive. Dekalb fits all of those. 268 square miles, 700K people, and about 105,000 calls a year. So anyway, I've been down here for about 7 weeks. The past 6 weeks have been all county and medic orientation. A long.. 6 weeks. We are the anomily at the academy.
Normally classes range 25-35 people. We have 3. Yep... 3 people. A guy from Dallas, TX a reinstate who used to work for the dept a couple of years ago and me. Its been a good time but we're all itching to get back out into the field. Even if they put me on the box for a long time.. I dont care... I'm tired of being in a classroom.
So.... we finished all that up last Friday. Today started accelerated fire training. All of us (all whopping 3 of us) are already FF II certified in some aspect, just not GA. So basically they're running us through all the skills and getting us ready physically for the academy's exit combat challenge.
Yeah... today was hard. But it was a good hard. Morning callestetics followed by running of the tower a couple of times with a roll of 3", followed by an uphill march (with the hose) for a couple of miles.
I'm hitting the sack early. We were advised before we left that it gets much worse.... right after we got done reloading 1500 ft of 5" supply line. But like I said.. I'm not complaining... it was a good hard physical day. But a 60 min body massage also sounds utterly divine.

Ok... enough writing for now... the light from the screen is killing my head.. I know... gripe, gripe, gripe... hell, its my blog I can do whatever I want.

Nite....