Atlantis
Master Chief Petty Officer of Starfleet
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I booked my flights, hotel and train. Next Monday, I leave for London. And on Wednesday, it's off to Moscow and continuing on to my new home in Siberia...
Oh, and I fixed a phone at work, using all my engineering and technical skill:
Oh, and I fixed a phone at work, using all my engineering and technical skill:
Borg_Queen
Bringer of order to chaos
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Interesting fix.
Jasoneagle
Drive'n Electriction
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Now that takes True Genius.
Jasoneagle
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I think summer is like 7 days long.
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Harrie
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Actually, two things happened today... The first was that my mom sat me down infront of the computer and said "Apply for a credit card... It's time to start building a credit report."
The second was that my friend called me tonight after about 20 minutes the converstaion is winding down and he say, "By the way, I'm going to be talking to my mom about getting a 360..." and I'm like "Hey, that great!" And he say "Yeah, and I'm gonna tell her to ask you all the hard questions." and I'm like "Hey, that's not so great!"
So yeah... in one day I'm told i'm being given financial reponsability of a sort and that I may also be the linchpin in the plan of my friend getting a 360... price estimates ranging from $580 to $1080... Suddenly I'm not liking this idea anymore...
The second was that my friend called me tonight after about 20 minutes the converstaion is winding down and he say, "By the way, I'm going to be talking to my mom about getting a 360..." and I'm like "Hey, that great!" And he say "Yeah, and I'm gonna tell her to ask you all the hard questions." and I'm like "Hey, that's not so great!"
So yeah... in one day I'm told i'm being given financial reponsability of a sort and that I may also be the linchpin in the plan of my friend getting a 360... price estimates ranging from $580 to $1080... Suddenly I'm not liking this idea anymore...
Sure as heck feels like it. Now it's already the cold season up here, and it's only October the Third. I already acquired the flu as well. This is oh so wonderful.
In a little bit over two months, parenthood will begin. So that's great. Christmas and two birthdays. I just hope my gal gets through it alright. I can say for sure that women go through a lot of really bad things. I can't even get through a stomach flu without being rather upset. I'm usually doped up on medications by the point a stomach flu gets half way. I wouldn't be able to imagine what she's going to go through. But Amy's strong, she'll get through what's ahead. I'll probably pass out watching it go on. When she screams, it's loud and ah, it really has the power to knock people out...
I got six hours of sleep tonight, got up just a few minutes ago. Another day of work ahead, but it's good that it's just down the block.
Soon another year will be over with, and I'll be going into another full year with Amy, and I'm glad time hasn't gone too fast the last year. So many wonderful nights this year and it almost makes all the bad stuff in the world seem relatively minor. I just don't like the idea of yet another winter coming soon. Yea, winter is not my favorite season...
EAS_Intrepid
MSFC Staff Paramedic
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It really is time to reanimate this thread.
Just as a foreword, I am in training to be a Paramedic, additionaly I have voluntary service with the German Red Cross.
Today (and yesterday) I had my shifts at an Art Fesitval in North-Eastern Berlin.
Both days eleven hours shifts.
It's funny. You can sit around for hours and nothing noteworthy happens. We drink a lot of coffee, some smoke a lot of cigarettes.
But just in a few minutes you really got work to do.
"War is like waiting for days, interrupted by seconds of sheer horror."
I read that sentence in a book today, while I had a break after we treated an epileptic person. Well, in my business it is quite comparable: Hours of waiting and minutes of being extremly focused and stressed. What can I say, I love the job.
But now to my most memorable things that happened to day.
First was a father who lost his child. The THW (Technisches Hilfswerk, which is translated best to Technical Support Service) picked up a jung boy (about 8 years old) who lost his father. I picked the boy up at their service tent and brought him to our ambulance car. By showing him all the things we have in there he was excited and distracted for that time. It was, after all, his first time he saw an ambulance truck from the inside.
Then we were called to a minor emergency (someone had cut herself on a broken bottle of beer) and since the guy wasn't too badly injured I was sent back to the truck.
Then the father of the young boy came and he was more than happy to have his son back.
Next thing to taking his son into his arms was taking me into his arms and thanking me. Never seen such an honest "thank you" in my live before.
Second thing:
I was called by a mother whose son hurt himself while playing soccer. Some skin injuries on the right knee and leg. I was giving first aid - while some Medicine Student came along and he could not resist to give me some dumb and stupid instructions. I bet ya, I could have slammed my fist into his face.
The young boy felt bad enough, because he was really hurt and he could not really stand the look of the blood on his knee; I did not need some dumb student telling ME what to do. I told him to shut the "insert expletive here" up. Fortunately that student went on his way then.
I'd like to notice, that I have nothing against students whatsoever. It is just: If you interfere in the work I am trained in and if you think you know everything a hundred times better than me... well, join the Red Cross yourself and stop giving me orders. I am the Medic, that guy was just there to roast meat and bread.
That were my two most memorable things that happened to me today.
I guess there are a lot of grammar and maybe typo errors, but I'll excuse that with having two days of eleven hour shifts in a row and not being a native English speaker.
Just as a foreword, I am in training to be a Paramedic, additionaly I have voluntary service with the German Red Cross.
Today (and yesterday) I had my shifts at an Art Fesitval in North-Eastern Berlin.
Both days eleven hours shifts.
It's funny. You can sit around for hours and nothing noteworthy happens. We drink a lot of coffee, some smoke a lot of cigarettes.
But just in a few minutes you really got work to do.
"War is like waiting for days, interrupted by seconds of sheer horror."
I read that sentence in a book today, while I had a break after we treated an epileptic person. Well, in my business it is quite comparable: Hours of waiting and minutes of being extremly focused and stressed. What can I say, I love the job.
But now to my most memorable things that happened to day.
First was a father who lost his child. The THW (Technisches Hilfswerk, which is translated best to Technical Support Service) picked up a jung boy (about 8 years old) who lost his father. I picked the boy up at their service tent and brought him to our ambulance car. By showing him all the things we have in there he was excited and distracted for that time. It was, after all, his first time he saw an ambulance truck from the inside.
Then we were called to a minor emergency (someone had cut herself on a broken bottle of beer) and since the guy wasn't too badly injured I was sent back to the truck.
Then the father of the young boy came and he was more than happy to have his son back.
Next thing to taking his son into his arms was taking me into his arms and thanking me. Never seen such an honest "thank you" in my live before.
Second thing:
I was called by a mother whose son hurt himself while playing soccer. Some skin injuries on the right knee and leg. I was giving first aid - while some Medicine Student came along and he could not resist to give me some dumb and stupid instructions. I bet ya, I could have slammed my fist into his face.
The young boy felt bad enough, because he was really hurt and he could not really stand the look of the blood on his knee; I did not need some dumb student telling ME what to do. I told him to shut the "insert expletive here" up. Fortunately that student went on his way then.
I'd like to notice, that I have nothing against students whatsoever. It is just: If you interfere in the work I am trained in and if you think you know everything a hundred times better than me... well, join the Red Cross yourself and stop giving me orders. I am the Medic, that guy was just there to roast meat and bread.
That were my two most memorable things that happened to me today.
I guess there are a lot of grammar and maybe typo errors, but I'll excuse that with having two days of eleven hour shifts in a row and not being a native English speaker.
CrazyFrog1903
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I had an interesting day. I had to go to an eye appointment today. It was about 70 miles from where I live. The only transportation I had available was my 90 GMC pick up. it had less than an eighth of a tank of gas. I made it to the appointment running on fumes. Then I left the appointment and drove home with the fuel gauge reading completely empty from the begining. After I got home I could hear the engine still running on fumes. After I turned it off I checked to see if it would start again. It was completely empty. That made for a fun day....
EAS_Intrepid
MSFC Staff Paramedic
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Okay...
I was at a government office, requesting financial aid for my apprenticeship.
Unlike other work trainings, I have to pay it myself. I was there for the third time until the clerk could finally tell me that an apprenticeship for Paramedics is supported by the state, but that I have to fill out a form and then it will be decided by higher powers if I get financial aid. Thank you, you could have told me that when I called beforehand and when I was there the first time. Shouldn't be that hard.
I hate bureaucracy, and Germany is full of it.
On my way back home, I noticed a woman shaking the body of a man lying near a store. He was talking quietly to her and she did seem very paniced.
Since no-one else cared, I got there and asked if I could be of any help.
It turns out the woman is his wife and speaks only a very broken English and no German. The man doesn't speak any of those two languages at all.
From what I could grasp, they were from Norway (maybe BQ can give me a crash course in Norwegian, someday).
Wasting no time I kneel down aside the man and I try to make him realize that I am there. The woman asks me who I am and I just reply with "Red Cross". She seems a bit less paniced.
Checking his vital signs (dang, I really want some equipment here now, makes the job a lot easier) I notice he's having trouble breathing and his pulse is quite fast.
I ask her if he has any known diseases or allergies. She tells me that he is getting opioids for pain treatment and that they drank a glass of wine each half an hour ago in an expensive wine store.
Intrepid thinks to himself "How good. Opium plus alcohol!"
Means: he is in shock. Two drugs working together are causing the metabolism to break down. Of course the body will try to compensate the shortage of oxygen etc and raise the heartbeat and blood pressure.
I tell her to tell her husband that I will now move his body and raise his legs, so his heart has less strain supplying his brain.
But now comes the thing that really made me mad:
Two to five bystanders gather and several of them get their cell phones and start filming! You read it: Instead of calling help, they start filming or making photographs.
Screaming at them wouldn't make it better... surely not for the woman and her husband... okay, a younger woman told me she called the ambulance already. Good... I just wanna go home...
Ambulance came, they took over the patient from me.
I got the names from two of the people who filmed the incident.
I'll be filing charges against them for "failure to assist person in danger". Luckily this is a crime in our country.
I was at a government office, requesting financial aid for my apprenticeship.
Unlike other work trainings, I have to pay it myself. I was there for the third time until the clerk could finally tell me that an apprenticeship for Paramedics is supported by the state, but that I have to fill out a form and then it will be decided by higher powers if I get financial aid. Thank you, you could have told me that when I called beforehand and when I was there the first time. Shouldn't be that hard.
I hate bureaucracy, and Germany is full of it.
On my way back home, I noticed a woman shaking the body of a man lying near a store. He was talking quietly to her and she did seem very paniced.
Since no-one else cared, I got there and asked if I could be of any help.
It turns out the woman is his wife and speaks only a very broken English and no German. The man doesn't speak any of those two languages at all.
From what I could grasp, they were from Norway (maybe BQ can give me a crash course in Norwegian, someday).
Wasting no time I kneel down aside the man and I try to make him realize that I am there. The woman asks me who I am and I just reply with "Red Cross". She seems a bit less paniced.
Checking his vital signs (dang, I really want some equipment here now, makes the job a lot easier) I notice he's having trouble breathing and his pulse is quite fast.
I ask her if he has any known diseases or allergies. She tells me that he is getting opioids for pain treatment and that they drank a glass of wine each half an hour ago in an expensive wine store.
Intrepid thinks to himself "How good. Opium plus alcohol!"
Means: he is in shock. Two drugs working together are causing the metabolism to break down. Of course the body will try to compensate the shortage of oxygen etc and raise the heartbeat and blood pressure.
I tell her to tell her husband that I will now move his body and raise his legs, so his heart has less strain supplying his brain.
But now comes the thing that really made me mad:
Two to five bystanders gather and several of them get their cell phones and start filming! You read it: Instead of calling help, they start filming or making photographs.
Screaming at them wouldn't make it better... surely not for the woman and her husband... okay, a younger woman told me she called the ambulance already. Good... I just wanna go home...
Ambulance came, they took over the patient from me.
I got the names from two of the people who filmed the incident.
I'll be filing charges against them for "failure to assist person in danger". Luckily this is a crime in our country.
CrazyFrog1903
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Today I started installing Windows 98se onto a computer. Downloaded the drivers and installing them. Wow. Amazing how far Windows has come....LOL
EAS_Intrepid
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Today was a calm day at work...
...until we got called by a Police unit to take care of an abused man.
He was knocked over the head with a pan by his wife. She was tad smaller than him, but - apparently - was much more choleric and abusive than him.
When we got him into the ambulance we noticed several larger hematomas on his back and his belly. It seems she hit him regularly.
The policeman asked him about it while the man lied on the stretcher in our car and the man avoided any questions that could endanger his wife....
he protected her, saying that the hematomas where from falling while doing sports etc pp.
Typical Stockholm syndrome...
I feel really really sorry for him. I talked to him on the way to the hospital and he started to cry. I grabbed his hand and hold it tightly to comfort him (worked) and he started to talk...
You know, there are studies than about 50% of all home violence are committed by women... and I imagine how devastating it has to be for a man.
He was abused for twentyfive years.
I don't know... I remember the first dead person I saw like an HD picture... and I know that I will never ever forget that case...
On another note: I was at my favourite bar in Berlin, because I wanted to be around people. I met a girl and we started to talk and she ceased any further contact as soon as we started to talk about what jobs we have...
she was a financial manager of a foundation... well, I am just a low-life EMT and my payment only allows for a small Italian 60 HP FIAT instead of a 200 HP Mercedes.
Sometimes life sucks - and yet I would not trade it in for any other life there is. I care less for spoiled chicks than for what I am doing.
...until we got called by a Police unit to take care of an abused man.
He was knocked over the head with a pan by his wife. She was tad smaller than him, but - apparently - was much more choleric and abusive than him.
When we got him into the ambulance we noticed several larger hematomas on his back and his belly. It seems she hit him regularly.
The policeman asked him about it while the man lied on the stretcher in our car and the man avoided any questions that could endanger his wife....
he protected her, saying that the hematomas where from falling while doing sports etc pp.
Typical Stockholm syndrome...
I feel really really sorry for him. I talked to him on the way to the hospital and he started to cry. I grabbed his hand and hold it tightly to comfort him (worked) and he started to talk...
You know, there are studies than about 50% of all home violence are committed by women... and I imagine how devastating it has to be for a man.
He was abused for twentyfive years.
I don't know... I remember the first dead person I saw like an HD picture... and I know that I will never ever forget that case...
On another note: I was at my favourite bar in Berlin, because I wanted to be around people. I met a girl and we started to talk and she ceased any further contact as soon as we started to talk about what jobs we have...
she was a financial manager of a foundation... well, I am just a low-life EMT and my payment only allows for a small Italian 60 HP FIAT instead of a 200 HP Mercedes.
Sometimes life sucks - and yet I would not trade it in for any other life there is. I care less for spoiled chicks than for what I am doing.
K_merse
Star Trek: Evolution
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Today was a pretty busy day. But maybe the most memorable is that I applied for the Erasmus program for the next semester. Erasmus is an EU program which allows students to attend the universities of the other member states. If everything turns out as I expect, I'm going to France in september - which would hurt my modding abilities for the following six months afterwards 
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Most memorable thing that happened to me today...that would probably be me and two friends having to re-enact the 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' song from Mulan at a church young single's activity...
Apparently it was filmed, methinks I'll need to pay attention carefully to anything I'm tagged in on Facebook in the next few days...
Apparently it was filmed, methinks I'll need to pay attention carefully to anything I'm tagged in on Facebook in the next few days...
EAS_Intrepid
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That is awesome, k_merse. What do you want to study?
K_merse
Star Trek: Evolution
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Actually I have not the slightest idea 
I'm studying law at the moment so definitely something from the law faculty. EU law would be awesome, but Freench civil law would be great too. I doN't know yet what options the Erasmus students have. And I don't even know if they accepted my application...
I'm studying law at the moment so definitely something from the law faculty. EU law would be awesome, but Freench civil law would be great too. I doN't know yet what options the Erasmus students have. And I don't even know if they accepted my application...
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Wile playing paint ball today I revised a million dollar wound from my daughter right on my left Gluteus maximus muscle 
For the record this was inflected on me by my 5 year old daughter Rebecca who was a holding my own gun at the time between matches.
Serra my wife as never been more proud of her daughter.
For the record this was inflected on me by my 5 year old daughter Rebecca who was a holding my own gun at the time between matches.
Serra my wife as never been more proud of her daughter.
Styer_Crisis
Zero APM Gamer, And i can still own you
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Wile playing paint ball today I revised a million dollar wound from my daughter right on my left Gluteus maximus muscle
For the record this was inflected on me by my 5 year old daughter Rebecca who was a holding my own gun at the time between matches.
Serra my wife as never been more proud of her daughter.
wow, ouch
, and i would be proud of her too,
Adm_Z
Gettin' down and GUI!
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Wile playing paint ball today I revised a million dollar wound from my daughter right on my left Gluteus maximus muscle
For the record this was inflected on me by my 5 year old daughter Rebecca who was a holding my own gun at the time between matches.
Serra my wife as never been more proud of her daughter.
Paintball is fun. I switched to airsoft a year or two ago though, because it is way cheaper and you can play it in your backyard without getting 'paint' all over your own trees.Gotta' love pain based sports, am I right?
Adm_Z
Gettin' down and GUI!
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Yeah, here I thought they used a type of colored soap,(hence me putting "paint"
) however its possible they also use oil, I use to have a bag of old ones for a while, and from the mess they made, It wouldn't surprise me if they were filled with oil.
I get most of my welts from airsoft nowadays though. They raise up much more and look like the worst bug bite you have ever seen, but are not much larger than the size of a pea.
When buddies go all out and buy guns that shoot 500fps at 80 feet, you can see how I might get alot of those. Rest assured though, that they have similar wounds. I"ll post a pic of my main gun when I get a chance.Styer_Crisis
Zero APM Gamer, And i can still own you
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Ok today, i did two memorable things,
1. Went chasing a forest fire, and got screamed at by a police officer in the process.
2. threw a golf ball out the window of our truck as we were driving down the road at 75 mph, it almost busted the windshield, and we weaved all over the road to avoid it, (just incase your wondering, i threw it forward, and it bounced up and then back)
1. Went chasing a forest fire, and got screamed at by a police officer in the process.
2. threw a golf ball out the window of our truck as we were driving down the road at 75 mph, it almost busted the windshield, and we weaved all over the road to avoid it, (just incase your wondering, i threw it forward, and it bounced up and then back)
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