Mahogany Ridge

I need to get a life.
I've closed the Mahogany Ridge 4 nights in a row now. No, i'm not a raging alcoholic, just an extremely bored guy who has found a cool place to hang out. Most of my money spent at MR has gone into the Extreme Hunting game the last few days. Yeah, i've had a brew or 2 a night, but i havent been getting wasted... I'm between jobs and bored out of my mind. The bartender/owner is cool, we've been hangin around, talkin about hunting and all that other good shit you talk about when you live in East Ass Adalia. So Anatomy and Physiolgy is over as i mentioned last time i wrote, paramedic starts thursday. Maybe thats why i've been just goin with the flow lately... enjoying my last taste of freedom until december on holiday break from class. Anyway, back to the bar. Wasn't even gonna go tonite. Friend of mine from the Geneva area happened to be a few towns over tonite so i went to chill with him at his sisters house where he's stayin... hung out there for a while, thought about comin home and going to bed before 4 am for the first time in 3 days, but i decided to go see how the bar was lookin. I got there, it was a moderate crowd for the size of the bar... nice little hole in the wall type... really picks up once the snow flies though. It's on one of the main snowmobile corridors, so it gets busy once the sleds start rollin.
Anyway, i hung out for a bit, kicked some ass at the hunting game, and in the middle of the game, the calvary arrived. in the course of 10 minutes or so, about 15 ppl showed up. Among them, a bunch of girls, which was nice. Some nice lookin girls too, which is unusual. The lookers don't normally end up in small, middle of nowhere bars around here.... Anyway, just hung around, closed the bar for the 4th night in a row, and here i am.
I've gotta be up at 0430, so i'm not even bothering layin down... its already 3 am.
I dont know why my internal clock has done a total 180 over the past few days... i'm draggin ass all day and ready to rumble about the time 11 pm rolls around... Odd.
So i gotta find time to study for my CDL over the weekend. Gotta take the test tuesday mornin.
Working the small city ambulance i per diem at for the next 2 overnights. should be fun. 5pm to 8 am. So i'm probably gonna spend 6am to 230 pm sleeping today... get up, go home, shower, shave, go to work. Gonna be a fun few nights. Tomorrow night we're runnin 3 crews. One of the medics on shift and I used to have problems... He has a tendency to go wayyyy overboard with the ball-busting. The past few shifts, he's been pretty damn cool though. Then again, we have a new FNG to harass... and let me tell ya, new FNG is a glutton for punishment.
Then monday night i'm workin with an awesome crew. 2 crews on monday night, and both of the paramedics are great. the other emt is pretty cool too.

So i worked a code the other day with the local small town ambulance i work for... young one. 53 y/o woman. way too young. has kids younger than me. I swear, of all the shit that goes on during a code, the worst part is the family. You're dealin fine, u get done cleanin up, sittin outside tryin to unwind, waiting for the ALS to finish the paperwork, then the ER doors open, and out comes the family of the deceased. They're all teary eyed, hurtin, and then they thank you for trying. WTF do you say to that? "I'm Sorry"? I've always hated that, especially when my grandfather died. WTF are you sorry for? you didnt cause his death. I know its all in how ya mean it, but still. What good does "I'm Sorry" do when it comes to a death? i know it's just a variant of "My condolences", but it sounds like you have something to be sorry about when you say it. Yeah, i'm sorry we couldnt save your (insert relation title here) who just had The Big One, but saying i'm sorry almost seems like an admission of guilt. Drives me nuts. And it's still hard to say I'm sorry, or my condolences. their loved ones' life just slipped through your hands like grains of sand, there was nothin that could be done about it, and nothing you say can make it hurt any less. UGH. i dont know. i think i'm starting to ramble. Just wanted to get that off my chest.
So lets see, on to happier things, if i can find em... Hmmmm...
Had our FD Open House today... showin off the new trucks. they are SWEET. Twin American LaFrance Metropolitans, Black and Chrome with FDNY style stripes. I know, i know. "WTF? Black fire trucks?!" Yeah yeah, kwitcherbitchin. The look amazing. They may not sound all that nice, but once you lay eyes on em, they grow on ya quick.
How did we end up with black trucks, you might ask? We had a vote. Our normal truck color has been yellow (Not slime lime, regular old bright yellow) and white. the decision was pretty much between our standard yellow/white, Chicago style (Black over Red), or Black. Black won the vote 8-5-3. Even the ppl who were bitchin about the trucks bein black were sittin there droolin with the rest of us when we got em.

Well, i'm gonna end this with a very random thought:

Have you noticed that in almost all of the recent movies and commercials with talking animals, the raccoons have Italian accents? Whats up with that?

Alright. Time to go make some coffee. My mind craves it's clarifying qualities.
Talk to you soon, and remember: A closed mouth gathers no foot. (That comes in especially handy on shit calls.)
Cya