Well, we've both been fairly busy the past few weeks with our respective jobs. We had two days of spring weather last weekend, yet this weekend the prediction is for some more snow! The temps have made it to the mid fifties for the most part. This weekend is supposed to be mid forties again though with lows possibly in the teens!
Today is Stacy's birthday. It's a love / hate thing for her about birthdays. I prefer them to quietly pass by. No fuss no muss!
EVERYBODY gets older, the options to that fact just aren't very appealing as far as I'm concerned!
We're looking forward to Sean and wife Brandy's arrival at Spokane this Saturday for a weeks stay. Stacy hasn't seen them both since we moved up here full time in March 2006. Sean was at Sandy's wedding last October in Las Vegas but Brandy couldn't be there. It might be a shock to their systems, it had been working on summer in San Diego according to Sean, 70's to 90's, so when I told him to bring jackets, he said they hadn't thought about it! But in the shaded areas there is still some snow and in the twenties at night!
Sandy and Erik will be flying up for the weekend, Memorial Day weekend. We're both glad to get to see some of the kids.
Now if Laura and her family could only make it from Iowa. Laura is planning to try next year after she's been at her job for over a year. Laura got her badge a couple of days ago, she'd been told she'd get it in July, so she was really happy to get it early. Laura has been progressing well in her animal control officer position. All her previous experience from California was very beneficial to her new department and they are glad to have her! We'd been an animal control family back in California with me, Stacy and Laura all working for the same agency, just in different sections and locations.
Stacy and I were actually talking about the "old days" recently. She thought I was starting to miss it all. I'd been watching True TV on satellite, and seeing COPS episodes that were from our old area and a newer show called Party Heat that like Cops, is filmed during the course of daily actives, just on the Colorado River, specifically around Lake Havasu Arizona. In that show there is a Sheriffs Officer that I knew so it's interesting to see what he's doing now. Well I guess some of it I can say I do miss. The earlier days especially, those first few years were often very memorable. Then working "on-Call" was exciting! Going out to who knows where for usually a call that could have waited for the day time, but being out in the middle of the night, often working directly with the city police, sheriff, CHP, or fire department was something, like I said, exciting! Every day then a new adventure, new challenges. I was there for 25 years so a lot happened!
Those last few years though, I really don't miss those. The area had become so crowded it was taking so long to get anywhere, I was a supervisor by then and the office politics were at times very tough to work around. My only concern was doing the best I could to make the operation of the department as smooth as possible during my shift. My "crew" to be as supported and backed up as possible, and bypass as much of the 'red-tape' as possible to just get the job done.
Many of the past (and still present) supervisors there have said over the years that they "were the best the department has ever had". I would never boast to something as outrageous as that
( no offense meant to the one person that might read this that was also a supervisor of mine there!). I made mistakes, EVERYBODY does. I've always wanted to be competent, being number one or die hasn't ever been a credo of mine. Just go out and do the absolute best that you can, I think, is a better way to get a job done. Less stress too!
So this long story short, do I miss it? Well like I said yes and no. 25 years was a loooong time. When I was a kid I used to work two jobs and six and seven days a week and think nothing about it. I wouldn't want to do that again either!
I guess enough for now. Hope everybody is doing great! Type later Tad.
Today is Stacy's birthday. It's a love / hate thing for her about birthdays. I prefer them to quietly pass by. No fuss no muss!
EVERYBODY gets older, the options to that fact just aren't very appealing as far as I'm concerned!
We're looking forward to Sean and wife Brandy's arrival at Spokane this Saturday for a weeks stay. Stacy hasn't seen them both since we moved up here full time in March 2006. Sean was at Sandy's wedding last October in Las Vegas but Brandy couldn't be there. It might be a shock to their systems, it had been working on summer in San Diego according to Sean, 70's to 90's, so when I told him to bring jackets, he said they hadn't thought about it! But in the shaded areas there is still some snow and in the twenties at night!
Sandy and Erik will be flying up for the weekend, Memorial Day weekend. We're both glad to get to see some of the kids.
Now if Laura and her family could only make it from Iowa. Laura is planning to try next year after she's been at her job for over a year. Laura got her badge a couple of days ago, she'd been told she'd get it in July, so she was really happy to get it early. Laura has been progressing well in her animal control officer position. All her previous experience from California was very beneficial to her new department and they are glad to have her! We'd been an animal control family back in California with me, Stacy and Laura all working for the same agency, just in different sections and locations.
Stacy and I were actually talking about the "old days" recently. She thought I was starting to miss it all. I'd been watching True TV on satellite, and seeing COPS episodes that were from our old area and a newer show called Party Heat that like Cops, is filmed during the course of daily actives, just on the Colorado River, specifically around Lake Havasu Arizona. In that show there is a Sheriffs Officer that I knew so it's interesting to see what he's doing now. Well I guess some of it I can say I do miss. The earlier days especially, those first few years were often very memorable. Then working "on-Call" was exciting! Going out to who knows where for usually a call that could have waited for the day time, but being out in the middle of the night, often working directly with the city police, sheriff, CHP, or fire department was something, like I said, exciting! Every day then a new adventure, new challenges. I was there for 25 years so a lot happened!
Those last few years though, I really don't miss those. The area had become so crowded it was taking so long to get anywhere, I was a supervisor by then and the office politics were at times very tough to work around. My only concern was doing the best I could to make the operation of the department as smooth as possible during my shift. My "crew" to be as supported and backed up as possible, and bypass as much of the 'red-tape' as possible to just get the job done.
Many of the past (and still present) supervisors there have said over the years that they "were the best the department has ever had". I would never boast to something as outrageous as that
( no offense meant to the one person that might read this that was also a supervisor of mine there!). I made mistakes, EVERYBODY does. I've always wanted to be competent, being number one or die hasn't ever been a credo of mine. Just go out and do the absolute best that you can, I think, is a better way to get a job done. Less stress too!
So this long story short, do I miss it? Well like I said yes and no. 25 years was a loooong time. When I was a kid I used to work two jobs and six and seven days a week and think nothing about it. I wouldn't want to do that again either!
I guess enough for now. Hope everybody is doing great! Type later Tad.
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