I'm not the sort of person to take pleasure in other's misfortunes....unless it results in something funny.



I have a peculiar sense of the absurd......and a disconcerting habit of "hee-hawing" when something strikes me funny. Even when it's inappropriate....ESPECIALLY when it's inappropriate.

It's not my most attractive characteristic, but I'm an avid audience of the theatre of "D'oh".



Drill last night......this was the very first time EVER that I actually debated… Continue

I don't know how your department categorizes its interior firefighters vs. exterior-only in terms of accountability tags, but in my department....green means "Go" and red means "exterior only" . I've been working hard toward getting my interior tags since I started, and was informed last week that I had finally reached that last bastion of holydom, also known as "cleared for interior attack".



Make no mistake, by achieving this goal, in no sense did I feel that I was prepared… Continue