Yes I'm still here!! My life doesn't slow down much. And I keep adding more to it. Work has been very hectic. We have 77 EMT students that are finishing up classes. Next semester it looks like those numbers could go over 100. The spring political season is fast approaching. That means I will be on the road a lot. I have been spending a ( Read more... )

My life has not slowed down much. I've chased hurricane's doing storm cleanup in Florida. We have been very busy here at work with record numbers of students. My life in politics has been very active. I was voted on to the board of a state association. As a city councilman I had to fire a major city employee. We are now also dealing with the ( Read more... )

The next 2 to 3 weeks are going to be nuts. We have the state wide EMS conference the rest of this week and then the fall semester starts next week here at the college. I think my first post will apply for the rest of the month.

This has been a very busy summer for me so I have not kept up with posting to well. A couple of my hobbies have taken a lot of my time. Fighting wildfires and politics. We have had several issues in the small town where I am a city council person. Fire season has been a mess jumping all over the place and blowing up then loosing steam just as ( Read more... )

Road Trips / Driving...I love being on the road. I drive anything I can get my hands on. I have been known to just take off on a 500 plus mile trip without notice. I ride dirt bikes and Harleys. I peddle a mountain bike. I love boats. I ride horses on long trips. I drive all sizes of pickups and trucks clear up to semi's. I drive buses part ( Read more... )

Music, I love all type's of music from bluegrass to southern rock. Artists I like include Sheryl Crow, Allison Kraus, Nora Jones, Gretchen Wilson, Martina McBride ( I dated her in high school), Iris Dement, Willy Nelson, Toby Keith, Hank Sr., Hank Jr., Kid Rock, Prince, Uncle Kracker, Dave Mathews, Tony Rice, David Grisman, Rolf Harris, Lou Bega ( Read more... )

It's been another week in my crazy life. I had 48 hours at my full time job. Spent 3 nights helping a friend, Darrel, wire his new house ( around 20 hrs). Worked a state EMT test site( 10 hrs). Spent a day partying with my friend, CAT (see previous post). Today I went on the road with a friend, Matt. We put over 300 miles on our Harley's ( Read more... )

I took a vacation day yesterday to help a friend, CAT, celebrate her birthday. It was a long but fun day, 23 hours to be exact. It started at 0600 and ended this morning at 0500. I still made it to work by 0900 this morning. I got to enjoy several of my hobbies in the process. First she's a red head and a dancer, go figure. Second I spent a ( Read more... )

Last week was another typical week in my life. I enjoyed several of my hobbies. Politics, I had a city council meeting where I live and another in Topeka. Storm chasing, I was right in the middle of the tornado outbreak in south central Kansas on Wednesday night. I was acting as a driver for a friend that is a professional storm chaser. I even ( Read more... )

This is another crazy week in my life. It is feild operations week for our EMT students. I'll have four 16 hour days in a row plus a regular 8 hour friday. Man I love my job!!! I also have parties to go to on Friday and Saturday night.