Thursday, May 31, 2012
The staff are rolling in...
So... Today was my first real day off from work here in the lovely mountains of Wyoming .... It was nice to get away from base for a bit and go into town grab some coffee etc by the time I had rolled back I last night new people had started to show uP here at the ranch of course the first part of this that I fel was not being able to find a parking spot .... I guess if that was the worse part of my night then life is pretty good eh? So las night knowing that today was my time off I went off to lander to fetch my motorcycle from storage as well as try and meet up with Clair ... My Nols instructor it was wonderful to meet up with her and talk about life, work and the iron man she just comPleated I also bumped Into brad and Sofia from second. Nature .... Slightly over whelmed by the entire experience bu that's life
Cheers
Td
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Life guards, born to get wet trained to save lives
Welp,
I feel like I got run over by a truck, that is mostly because I spent Hours and Hours in the pool yesterday, about six to be more to point. I dont think I have spent that much time in the water since.... well ever.... I mean perhaps back in the day of summers spent in the pool eating ice cream and pretending to be on the swim team, but that at least fifteen yeas ago...
needless to say, I was not used to the effort I had to put in when it came to being in the water, however it was easier then I thought. The entire purpose of us and me being there was for us to get trained as lifeguards
the title of todays post was a bumpersticker they had in the guard rooma t the local pool, I just had to laugh. I understand that for a lot of people lifeguarding is a big deal, for me its.... well anti clamatic
I mean these people train constantly on a very narrow skill set and if shit really hits the fan they have to do CPR, Being an EMT, Having had people die in front of my eyes, being the person that the lifeguars call when it hits the fan.... needless to say it all just felt strange to me, almost laughable
the swimming skills while a challange were not as hard as I thought it to be, and just because I am now a real deal american red cross lifeguard dosent mean that i dont have a lot of room to imporve upon.....
I have the next few days off, although it dosent really feel like i have them off from work, I think that a lot of that is becasue of my lack of a car. I still do not have mine fixed and figured out. I am hoping that it will all be done and taken care of as of tonight, But I am not holding my breath on the account of knowing that this is a small town, and people who fix cars in small towns.... sorta do what they want, like drinking beer in their shop durning bussniess hours instead of fixing my car.... alas not a lot of options and this is a good chance for me to work on how I handle things that are out side of my control.
Later today, a few of my peers and I will be heading off to Jackson to pick up some of the fleet of vans that will be residing at SOAR for the summer. Like I said, while I do have some time of, It sure dosent always feel that way. I really dont mind, however this place feels very much like the sorta deal where you do your job and then still pitch in on time off.... Im fine with that. I have to admit that I like the work ethic of the people running this show, they seem to really bust butt to keep the ranch running as smooth as they can. I have to admit its a nice change from past employers who have not always had the same investment....
Today Leslie moved out of her cabin up in Mccall. I have to admit, I think that i feel more sad about it then she does, i reall was in love with that little cabin in the woods by the lake. I Think it is mostly becasue it is something that represents what I want very badly. I am still working through that in my head.
thats my thoughts for now..... if off to oggle and drool over old western trucks, guns and dogs.... life is clearly hard
cheers
td
I feel like I got run over by a truck, that is mostly because I spent Hours and Hours in the pool yesterday, about six to be more to point. I dont think I have spent that much time in the water since.... well ever.... I mean perhaps back in the day of summers spent in the pool eating ice cream and pretending to be on the swim team, but that at least fifteen yeas ago...
needless to say, I was not used to the effort I had to put in when it came to being in the water, however it was easier then I thought. The entire purpose of us and me being there was for us to get trained as lifeguards
the title of todays post was a bumpersticker they had in the guard rooma t the local pool, I just had to laugh. I understand that for a lot of people lifeguarding is a big deal, for me its.... well anti clamatic
I mean these people train constantly on a very narrow skill set and if shit really hits the fan they have to do CPR, Being an EMT, Having had people die in front of my eyes, being the person that the lifeguars call when it hits the fan.... needless to say it all just felt strange to me, almost laughable
the swimming skills while a challange were not as hard as I thought it to be, and just because I am now a real deal american red cross lifeguard dosent mean that i dont have a lot of room to imporve upon.....
I have the next few days off, although it dosent really feel like i have them off from work, I think that a lot of that is becasue of my lack of a car. I still do not have mine fixed and figured out. I am hoping that it will all be done and taken care of as of tonight, But I am not holding my breath on the account of knowing that this is a small town, and people who fix cars in small towns.... sorta do what they want, like drinking beer in their shop durning bussniess hours instead of fixing my car.... alas not a lot of options and this is a good chance for me to work on how I handle things that are out side of my control.
Later today, a few of my peers and I will be heading off to Jackson to pick up some of the fleet of vans that will be residing at SOAR for the summer. Like I said, while I do have some time of, It sure dosent always feel that way. I really dont mind, however this place feels very much like the sorta deal where you do your job and then still pitch in on time off.... Im fine with that. I have to admit that I like the work ethic of the people running this show, they seem to really bust butt to keep the ranch running as smooth as they can. I have to admit its a nice change from past employers who have not always had the same investment....
Today Leslie moved out of her cabin up in Mccall. I have to admit, I think that i feel more sad about it then she does, i reall was in love with that little cabin in the woods by the lake. I Think it is mostly becasue it is something that represents what I want very badly. I am still working through that in my head.
thats my thoughts for now..... if off to oggle and drool over old western trucks, guns and dogs.... life is clearly hard
cheers
td
Monday, May 28, 2012
LIFE guarding, AFR, horse wranglin!
Welp,
today had its ups and downs, the up is that we finished off some of the worst educational movie clips that i have ever had to sit through, while they were good for laughs, the lifeguarding movies were the worst!
On a lighter note, I know that some thing called an AFR exists in this strange world, thank you lifeguarding test..... AFR stands for accidental fecal release .... I responded to that.... " ITS NEVER AND ACCIDENT!" alas I aced the written test, and tomorow morning bright and early I am off to make a fool of my self in a pool, attempting to swim laps, but thats ok, because for the rest of the time I shall have my trusty red pool TUBE. apperently it is never supposed to leave your arms... we shall see... we shall see
This evening, the cook, Ashlee and a few of the nebies that showed up today along with my self went off for a bit of a hike, ok so it wasent realy a hike I only did about a mile before turning around with the idea of perhaps doing some used car research .... but the rest of the crew kept going on, I was pleased to see a bit more of the area around here... It was nice to strech the legs a bit, nice to breath in the crisp mountain air, it is these simple things, that I truely live for... I live in the mountains, I work with cool people, Life is good life is simple, life is how I want it...
NOW if only I could track down a good used truck with out going into debt up to my EYEballs
oh by the way, as I was innocently sitting in the office, my sensitive ears picked up some sounds outside, since i had the door open and was enjoying the tunning views of the jagged peaks of the Absorka range.
turns out two of the rance horses had kicked down part of the fence in their quest for something other then MUD to stand in. I think they really just wanted to chew on some grass... needless to say.... you spend enough time picking up horse shit in your teenage years like I did you remember a thing or two on how not to get you ass kicked by a horse and at the same time get them to do what you want...
Well it sorta worked... sorta that means they are back in their corral and it was not as easy as I wanted it to be and I may or may not have left at least one frantic voice mail for out director...
alas unlike our cook who has loads of free time to blog I need to head for bed, early start in the morning in the world of embarassment AKA me swimming
cheers for now
TD
today had its ups and downs, the up is that we finished off some of the worst educational movie clips that i have ever had to sit through, while they were good for laughs, the lifeguarding movies were the worst!
On a lighter note, I know that some thing called an AFR exists in this strange world, thank you lifeguarding test..... AFR stands for accidental fecal release .... I responded to that.... " ITS NEVER AND ACCIDENT!" alas I aced the written test, and tomorow morning bright and early I am off to make a fool of my self in a pool, attempting to swim laps, but thats ok, because for the rest of the time I shall have my trusty red pool TUBE. apperently it is never supposed to leave your arms... we shall see... we shall see
This evening, the cook, Ashlee and a few of the nebies that showed up today along with my self went off for a bit of a hike, ok so it wasent realy a hike I only did about a mile before turning around with the idea of perhaps doing some used car research .... but the rest of the crew kept going on, I was pleased to see a bit more of the area around here... It was nice to strech the legs a bit, nice to breath in the crisp mountain air, it is these simple things, that I truely live for... I live in the mountains, I work with cool people, Life is good life is simple, life is how I want it...
NOW if only I could track down a good used truck with out going into debt up to my EYEballs
oh by the way, as I was innocently sitting in the office, my sensitive ears picked up some sounds outside, since i had the door open and was enjoying the tunning views of the jagged peaks of the Absorka range.
turns out two of the rance horses had kicked down part of the fence in their quest for something other then MUD to stand in. I think they really just wanted to chew on some grass... needless to say.... you spend enough time picking up horse shit in your teenage years like I did you remember a thing or two on how not to get you ass kicked by a horse and at the same time get them to do what you want...
Well it sorta worked... sorta that means they are back in their corral and it was not as easy as I wanted it to be and I may or may not have left at least one frantic voice mail for out director...
alas unlike our cook who has loads of free time to blog I need to head for bed, early start in the morning in the world of embarassment AKA me swimming
cheers for now
TD
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Wyoming.... Ding Dang
Welp..... Par the course It has been ages since my last post, and, if memory serves me right my last post didnt really have anything more then a tittle. Story of my life. You know its bad, and or that you dont car about keeping up on Ye old blog when every time you sign on, the settings and entire website has changed.
I guess part of my justifacation for not posting has been that I am fairly sure almost no one reads my blog.... I mean the only person that ever really followed it was Les, and even she has lost track.... although who can blame her, if I, the writer of the blog barely signs on, let alone has anything else to say...
My motovation for jumping back into it was that once of my co workers here seems to be on a blog spree, I for one am not sure why, But I guess it is a good space for one to get their thoughts out there, at least for those who want to see them.
So here goes, a lot has changed since the last time i felt the need to send my small thoughts into the world of the interweb.
For on, I am no longer living in Utah, currently I am in my car, but to be more to the point I am living in Wyoming, and I have to say, that even though it has been dumping snow in typical spring weather here.
I decided some times around january that I was ready to move on and try something else other then second nature, However I really didnt make up my Mind in till the start of march when I got down and dirty and started sending out job applications like it was my job. I applied for three.... No four jobs.... two of them were for the summer, one of them was full time based off of the school year, and one of them is part times starting in the fall. I got both of the summer jobs, I was offered a field instructor job with adventure treks, beating out 900 applications for a Shot at a job, but I Turned it down, that is because I was offered a Job as a Course director for SOAR, and adventure summer camp program that works intensivly with kids who have LD
Needless to say I am excited about the job and have been here at direcotr staff training for almost a week, it has bene snowing for most of that time and every is very lovely under a fresh blanket of white.
I have to admit that I am more then a little bit over whelmed by the whole thing, first of all, I am one of two out of the entire direcotr tear for the entire west opperations of this program that has never worked for SOAR before, so there is a lot of catching up to do, and I have to also adjust to this community its new, these are new people and it something that I need to get used to, Because soon, I will have my own course, my own staff teams, my own people !
ITs exciting, and scary at the same time, all I know is that I am very excited to be on a break from second nature, I felt the burn out and complancey coming on like a freight train, I dont think I could have timed it better if I tried.
who knows what the summer will hold, all I know is that my heart, wile nervous is happy to be here, if feels like I belong.
Finally on a very exciting note, I have a a job interview with WMI coming up very shortly, I am excited about the prospect of getting back and more involved int he world of EMS....!
hopefully, I shall be teaching WFR and WEMT classes this fall....
till later I shall leave you all.... or perhaps the one or two people who are reading this with the thought and the idea that I will be much more active on my blog this summer
cheers
and take care
td
I guess part of my justifacation for not posting has been that I am fairly sure almost no one reads my blog.... I mean the only person that ever really followed it was Les, and even she has lost track.... although who can blame her, if I, the writer of the blog barely signs on, let alone has anything else to say...
My motovation for jumping back into it was that once of my co workers here seems to be on a blog spree, I for one am not sure why, But I guess it is a good space for one to get their thoughts out there, at least for those who want to see them.
So here goes, a lot has changed since the last time i felt the need to send my small thoughts into the world of the interweb.
For on, I am no longer living in Utah, currently I am in my car, but to be more to the point I am living in Wyoming, and I have to say, that even though it has been dumping snow in typical spring weather here.
I decided some times around january that I was ready to move on and try something else other then second nature, However I really didnt make up my Mind in till the start of march when I got down and dirty and started sending out job applications like it was my job. I applied for three.... No four jobs.... two of them were for the summer, one of them was full time based off of the school year, and one of them is part times starting in the fall. I got both of the summer jobs, I was offered a field instructor job with adventure treks, beating out 900 applications for a Shot at a job, but I Turned it down, that is because I was offered a Job as a Course director for SOAR, and adventure summer camp program that works intensivly with kids who have LD
Needless to say I am excited about the job and have been here at direcotr staff training for almost a week, it has bene snowing for most of that time and every is very lovely under a fresh blanket of white.
I have to admit that I am more then a little bit over whelmed by the whole thing, first of all, I am one of two out of the entire direcotr tear for the entire west opperations of this program that has never worked for SOAR before, so there is a lot of catching up to do, and I have to also adjust to this community its new, these are new people and it something that I need to get used to, Because soon, I will have my own course, my own staff teams, my own people !
ITs exciting, and scary at the same time, all I know is that I am very excited to be on a break from second nature, I felt the burn out and complancey coming on like a freight train, I dont think I could have timed it better if I tried.
who knows what the summer will hold, all I know is that my heart, wile nervous is happy to be here, if feels like I belong.
Finally on a very exciting note, I have a a job interview with WMI coming up very shortly, I am excited about the prospect of getting back and more involved int he world of EMS....!
hopefully, I shall be teaching WFR and WEMT classes this fall....
till later I shall leave you all.... or perhaps the one or two people who are reading this with the thought and the idea that I will be much more active on my blog this summer
cheers
and take care
td
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