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“Here lies Joyce Anita Hazel Felts Wroten Grayson, who lived without an inch of backbone or an ounce of spine. If you missed your opportunity to shit on her in life, please step up and do so now.”   ~ Joyce Grayson My mother used to insist that she wanted a marble toilet for a headstone, with those words etched on ...

Just a drive by post, because Internet access here in the press room is erratic, to put it kindly. I’ll post a recap from the hotel room this evening. In the meantime, here’s a picture of a bunny with a pancake on his head.  

Okay guys, here’s the deal. I’m trying to help an EMS advocacy group get off the ground. They aim to raise awareness and provide education and peer support strategies for EMS people who suffer from mental illness, particularly depression and PTSD. They, like myself, are tired of constantly reading of our EMS brethren taking their lives when the pressures they ...

Wow, that was quick! The Shooter Self-Care First Aid Class filled up as of 0730 this morning. See y’all in Indy!

… they held their lighters aloft and swayed rhythmically. Men bought me beer, and women threw their panties on the stage. You know, the usual.* Just got back from the ESCAPe Conference in Pipestem, WV and the Ohio ITLS Emergency Care Conference in Columbus, OH. Had a great reception at both. This is the third time the folks at ESCAPe ...

… bound for Pipestem, WV and then Columbus, OH to do the EMS Expert* thing. If any of y’all plan to attend the ESCAPe Conference in Pipestem, or the Ohio ITLS Conference in Columbus, holla atcha boy. * If you have a laptop and a laser pointer, and you’re more than 100 miles from home, you get to call yourself ...

May 19 will be my sixth anniversary as a Borg drone here at Southwest Hive. I’m still not fully assimilated. Likely never will be. I jokingly call my employer The Borg because of their tendency to gobble up smaller ambulance services on the fringes of their territory, relentlessly expanding their empire, like, well, The Borg. And they do have their ...

Just ran a call for a car overturned in a ditch. And by “ditch,” I mean “gully.” Or maybe “ravine” would be better. If we were further west, we’d call it an “arroyo.” You know, smaller than a canyon, but deeper than a trench. Deep enough that extricating someone from it would require specialized equipment and additional personnel. In other ...

A Chandler, AZ woman is accused of a somewhat unusual murder attempt on her husband: A Chandler woman was arrested on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder Thursday after she was caught injecting her husband’s IV line with fecal matter at Chandler Regional Hospital, according to court documents. Rosemary Vogel’s husband was in the hospital recovering from surgery when Vogel, 55, ...

Thank you to all of those selfless men and women who have served in our country’s armed forces. Your service and your sacrifice are much of what makes this country great. Not just militarily, but in fulfilling the promise of the experiment in liberty that is the United States of America. It’s a nebulous thing, freedom, and not an easy ...

I’m sure, never having worked on an ambulance, that you’re mightily impressed with our recent CAD software upgrade. And truly, the graphics and buttons are kinda sexy. But while it probably makes sense to you to set it up to have the computer automatically plot a route to every friggin’ destination, to us, the end users, the functionality is somewhat ...

For you Half Life 2 fans, meet Jennifer, aka Alyx Vance. I know exactly how she feels. Without buying a single item, I could rummage through my gun safe and closets and find enough stuff to dress as Alice from the Resident Evil films. Hey, don’t judge me. I was going through a Milla Jovovich phase.

Took a nine-mile hike through Comanche National Grasslands with FarmGirl this morning. Beautiful country, and plenty rugged. Took a gozillion pics which I'll post later. Anyway, halfway through the hike, I stepped around a yucca plant, and felt a sting in my left ankle. I absentlymindedly swiped at it, and then paused a few steps later to give it a ...

On leadership versus managing: A leader treats the policy and procedure manual as a guide, and uses his best judgment in deciding whether strict adherence to policy is in the best interests of the agency, the crews, and the patients. A manager treats the policy and procedure manual as the Bible, and uses it to bludgeon into submission any underling ...

I spend most of my time with one foot firmly planted in the gun culture and the other in EMS. Those two worlds are not supposed to collide. I run my share of shootings, but those don’t involve the gun culture. They’re the thug culture, and there is a difference. I’m not telling you every gun should be in a ...