Home, Home Again…

…alternatively titled “Where The Hell has Ambulance Driver Been?”

If you’ve noticed a dearth of quality blog posts lately, it’s been because I’ve had a trip coming up, and several others to prepare for. Polishing those presentations and making travel arrangements has occupied a great deal of my time.

I spent the last four days at EMS Expo in Orlando, ostensibly to help man the National EMS Museum booth and sign a few books, but really to visit with friends old and new, network and pay homage to the Mouse.

I’m happy to say that the NEMSF traveling museum exhibit was a rousing success, of which I was only peripherally involved. All of the credit belongs to the museum board and the ladies who volunteered their time and efforts to the project, namely Kat Rickey, Julie Scadden, Dawn Poetter and Valerie DeFrance.

Valerie, aside from operating one of the most popular EMS sites on the internet, was also awarded the National Paramedic of The Year by Braun Industries and Zoll Medical, an accolade she richly deserves.

Babs and I spent the weekend together, and we took KatyBeth to Disney’s Magic Kingdom. Since I was in the company of two enchantingly beautiful blondes for most of the trip, blog posting was way down on the list of priorities.

Thanks in no small part to Bob at The Eagle’s Nest, our Disney trip was a smashing good time, and the topper was a private meet-and-greet arranged by a co-worker’s family member who works at Disney.

KatyBeth got twenty minutes alone with Eeyore, Daisy Duck, Chip and Dale, Clarabell the Cow, Papa Gepetto, Mickey, and several other characters I can’t immediately recall.

Way cool.

As an added bonus, I was also offered a couple of paid writing gigs under my real name. One will be a monthly column with a major EMS website, and another will give me the opportunity to write and design a number of multimedia EMS continuing education offerings. Even better, both offers were tendered with the full knowledge of my posting on this blog, and they set no restrictions on my writing here. In fact, they as much as said, “More of the same, please!”

Aside from that, my batteries are fully recharged and my work is caught up, so we shall now return to our regularly scheduled snark and toilet humor.

That is all.