SSDD

I love New York. The people who run this state are so full of infinite wisdom that they're drowning in their own BS. I went and scheduled my CDL (commercial drivers license) road test yesterday and the soonest i could get in was December 22nd. And it's all because of NY's money saving logic. It used to be that there was a Brownie for every DMV (Dept. of Motor Vehicles) location. Not anymore. NY decided to let 3 or 4 brownies who started doing road tests on Model T's retire, and instead of hiring 3 or 4 more, they're laying off several more. So now you're gonna have one brownie covering a bunch of DMV locations. They said at the office that come spring time, there is usually a 3-4 month wait for road tests. it's ridiculous.
Ok, enough of my rant. on to other things.

It snowed last night. We got 2 inches or so of accumulation here at home since yesterday evening. It is quite refreshing. There is something theraputic about the first snowfall of the year. Especially like it was last night, where it blankets the ground and coats every tree branch, big and small... it looks like a postcard. it is amazing.

I did alright on the quiz monday... i got a score of 100, including the 20 point bonus question. i think he also gave partial credit for answers that were sort of right or partially right.
There were some people who actually got "Bullshit!" written in big red letters next to questions that they were obviously just grasping at straws. It was kind of amusing. I was not the recipient of a BS label though, which was good.
There were some amuzing moments throughout class, as usual.
The class ended with alot of confused and frustrated people though. After going over pharmacology, we got into drug math. It went all right at first, because i've always been halfway decent when it comes to fractions. It went alright until we got into Dopamine and Microliters. Then our bostonian transplant started disagreeing with the instructor, one of the big mouth hotshot EMTs started givin the instructor shit, and then this other guy who has a history of really freakin stupid questions started asking RFS questions by the bucketful, sometimes even asking a question that was exactly what the instructor just got done saying. The way he asked the questions was like the instructor had never said anything about it at all.
I do kind of feel bad for boston to a degree because he basically got F-cked over on his resiprocity so he has to take the paramedic class all over again. but still the crap he was gettin into was crazy. I really wanted to turn to him, big mouth EMT, and knucklehead and say "STFU and let him teach us this. Not all of us know this sh-t already (Boston did know it already, and hot shot just thought he did). But it's like come on, i'm having a hard enough time with the Dopamine figures, quit makin it so much more difficult.
All i gotta do is study up on it a bit more and practice it, and i'll be fine. We got a homework assignment last night for Thanksgiving break involving drug math and stuff, so i'll be practicing that alot.

I went up to the bar again last night. I was feelin in the mood to play some pool. I usually play the hunting game, but i figured that pool was cheaper and i've dumped enough damn money into that hunting game that i could take a break. That train of thought didn't last long.
The owner plays the game all the time, because this bar is pretty quiet most of the time and he doesn't have much else to do... well, he started a contest. Get into the top 10, you get a free drink of your choice. you beat his high score, you get a free bucket of ponies, he calls em. Splits of Labatt Blue, blue light, bud, bud light, coors light (my personal favorite).
Anyway, the other day, 71,000 something was #1 spot.
Well, Jamie got on a hot streak the other day and turned the top 3 scores into 81K, 77K, and 72K.
He told me he did pretty good, but when i looked at the top scores I was like "WTF man, you tryin to make the top 10 unbeatable?" he just laughed.
Anyway, i can't say no to a challenge, especially when you knock me out of a position i used to hold (Screen Record and Animal Record for Whitetail, and Animal Record for Black Bear.)
Well, i got back at him. He held every spot in the top 10. When that screen popped up, you saw a nice row of 10 JME's (his initials.) I wound up slapping an AJA (My initials) into 5th place. So i got a free beer and i got called an asshole for ruining his beautiful top 10. :-)
It was great though. I could tell from about the 2nd animal on that if i kept up my pace, i'd get top 10 but i didnt want to say anything, because every time i've gotten on a roll in the past and said something, it would always end badly.
So Jamie was gabbin on the phone to his cousin (which was kind of funny because it turns out that i live in Jamie's grandmother's old house, so that kinda weirded him out the first time he heard it... anyway, he was tellin his cousin about it.), and he wasnt paying attention to the game. Halfway through the last screen of regular play, (you hunt for 6 animals, and each animal has 6 screens. Then after you clear all of that, you get an Elite Stage, which involves one screen for each animal, with 3 monster animals on each screen. You also get the occasional bonus screen with really big animals, or various target shoots where you can earn bonus weapons or accessories), he looked up and saw that i was only about 2000 points out of the top 10 and not even in the elite stage yet. It was great. I was proud of myself. I inserted my initials into a spot on that record board that will take alot of very good games to oust me from.

Well, i gotta go pay my car insurance and do some other stuff before i go on duty tonite... workin 1700-0000 for QVA. Good times.
cya