Hello everyone. Can you believe it, two entries for the month of November? Whodathunkit? I decided to do a random ramblin' today because I have a variety of topics to discuss today.
Christmas has come early for me. Two weeks ago tomorrow I order a brand spankin' new Dell. It got here a week ago Thursday. It is one hell of a system. It has an 80 GB hard drive, 2.0 Ghz Pentium 4 processor, and 512 MB of RAM. It also has a CD/DVD-RW drive, a 19" flat panel, LCD monitor, and a 5.1 Surround Sound speaker system with subwoofer. I totally love this new system. The sound that the speakers put out is just as good, if not better than any stereo. I was surprised at how good they actually are. DVDs also look really good on this system. This covers my Christmas and birthday in February which is totally fine with me!
I just finished reading my book report book for my reading class. The book was a titled 3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and The Men Who Fought It by Sean Flynn. The book is the a detailed look into the massive warehouse fire that took the lives of 6 firefighters in Worcester, Massachusetts on December 3, 1999. The book not only gave details about the horrible fire, but also gave a detailed looked into the lives of the six heroes that made the ultimate sacrifice. All in all, I thought the book was great and am glad that I chose to read it. All that is really left to do now is to write up the report on it and turn it in. I might get started on the report this weekend and get it turned in this coming Tuesday. The report isn't due until December 6th, but I want to turn it in early. I am sure that I can score a good grade on the report since that book really interested me.
I do have a bit of an update on the job shadowing at 911. I was supposed to go in and job shadow tomorrow but plans have since changed. The dispatcher that I am going to shadow has decided to take tomorrow off. So, we have decided to put it off for a few more weeks. At first I was a bit disappointed, but after I thought about it, she deserves it. She has been trying to balance work, school, and family. She has also been working weekends all month and most definitely deserves a Saturday off to catch up on some rest and spend time with her family. She and Ihave decided to go ahead and put it off for a few more weeks. We hope to do it sometime on a Saturday in December.
I think that is going to wrap it up this time around.
Thanks for reading.
'Till next time.
Jason
Friday, November 18, 2005
Thursday, November 3, 2005
911, What Is Your Emergency?
Wow, its almost been a month since my last entry. I really need to try to stop slacking off so much. LOL. Anyway, I have a rather interesting story to share with you all today. So, without further delay, let's get started.
Yesterday during a break in my English class, I noticed that one of the ladies in our class was wearing a KPD shirt. When she came back into the room, I asked one of my friends that had come back in with her if she was a police officer. He said no, that she was a 911 dispatcher for Kokomo. I couldn't believe it and I knew that I just had to talk to her after class.
When class wrapped up, I asked Andrea if I could talk to her for a few minutes. She said yes, that she wanted to talk to me anyway since I was doing my research paper on seat belts. She told me a story in which the use of a seat belt saved her live. The conversation turned to her being a 911 dispatcher. I told her that I knew someone with the same last name as her's. She said, "Let me guess, Don?" I said yes and she informed me that he was her ex-husband. I asked her if he had ever told her about a friend of his that was in a wheelchair, had MD, and was interested in becoming a dispatcher. She told me he had and I told her that it was me. She said that she figured I was. She said that the first day that I wore my FDNY hat and/or shirt and started talking about fire departments, that I was the kid that Don had told her about. Small world, huh?
I began to ask her questions about dispatching, what was all involved, and whether or not she thought that I would be able to do the job. She informed me that everything was run via CAD, better known as, Computer Aided Dispatch. She said that as long as I could type at a considerable rate, that I shouldn't have a problem.
She is going to talk to her supervisor and see if we can set up a day that I could go and job shadow her. The job shadowing would be a good way for me to see how they perform, at the rate in which they perform, to get a general feel of how 911 dispatching is, and to decide if it's something that I would still be interested in doing and to find out if I would be able to do it successfully as well.
Needless to say, I am pretty excited about this potential possibility. I have been wanting to do something like this for quite some time now. Until yesterday, I had no idea how I was going to go about looking into it. Thankfully I have found that I have a dispatcher in one my classes, and that she seems to be willing to take me under her proverbial wing, show me the ropes, and help me in my pursuit to becoming a dispatcher.
Here's to hoping this pursuit becomes a successful one.
'Till next time.
Jason
Yesterday during a break in my English class, I noticed that one of the ladies in our class was wearing a KPD shirt. When she came back into the room, I asked one of my friends that had come back in with her if she was a police officer. He said no, that she was a 911 dispatcher for Kokomo. I couldn't believe it and I knew that I just had to talk to her after class.
When class wrapped up, I asked Andrea if I could talk to her for a few minutes. She said yes, that she wanted to talk to me anyway since I was doing my research paper on seat belts. She told me a story in which the use of a seat belt saved her live. The conversation turned to her being a 911 dispatcher. I told her that I knew someone with the same last name as her's. She said, "Let me guess, Don?" I said yes and she informed me that he was her ex-husband. I asked her if he had ever told her about a friend of his that was in a wheelchair, had MD, and was interested in becoming a dispatcher. She told me he had and I told her that it was me. She said that she figured I was. She said that the first day that I wore my FDNY hat and/or shirt and started talking about fire departments, that I was the kid that Don had told her about. Small world, huh?
I began to ask her questions about dispatching, what was all involved, and whether or not she thought that I would be able to do the job. She informed me that everything was run via CAD, better known as, Computer Aided Dispatch. She said that as long as I could type at a considerable rate, that I shouldn't have a problem.
She is going to talk to her supervisor and see if we can set up a day that I could go and job shadow her. The job shadowing would be a good way for me to see how they perform, at the rate in which they perform, to get a general feel of how 911 dispatching is, and to decide if it's something that I would still be interested in doing and to find out if I would be able to do it successfully as well.
Needless to say, I am pretty excited about this potential possibility. I have been wanting to do something like this for quite some time now. Until yesterday, I had no idea how I was going to go about looking into it. Thankfully I have found that I have a dispatcher in one my classes, and that she seems to be willing to take me under her proverbial wing, show me the ropes, and help me in my pursuit to becoming a dispatcher.
Here's to hoping this pursuit becomes a successful one.
'Till next time.
Jason
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