We are almost done with the project at Crest Park. I did a lot this evening and tomorrow I will have some help from another employee which should make it a lot easier. This project is killing me. I am just ready for it to be done and then I can get onto doing more police work.
I got my new holster today so I will be able to finish the backgrounds on Thursday. I need to get those done so my Sgt. doesn't think I am a slacker and someone he can count on. This is important beacause I would like to work for this department. I need to be dependable. I am hoping that this summer I will be able to do some things such as transport, escort, and other activities that allow me to be in uniform.
More to come later!
Monday, May 19, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Needing a break
I am just needing a break from work for a couple of days. The weekends seem to not last long enough so I think we should have more 3 day weekends. With all the jobs needing things and family needing attention, I feel like I am stretched a little too thin. It sucks because I want to do good at all jobs but because they are all demanding a lot of time I seem to only do partly well. I guess the question to ask is "what can you do?"
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Some tough times
These past couple of weeks of been really tough for me. I have a great family and wonderful friends who are getting me through all these times.
The students at school are getting a little crazy lately. They seem to think the year is over and they do not have to work or follow any rules. They are driving me crazy!! For some reason or another, the kids are making their lives harder. There are things they still get to do at the end of the year, however, I wonder if they will make it.
Work is also becoming more difficult. With the school asking more and more of the teachers with little incentive, I wonder how many teachers are going to be willing to stick it out. I love teaching and it hurts me to think that I might not be in the schools much longer. I will be making the swich to law enforcement as soon as my leg is better.
I need to be able to run and pass the physical exams for the PD. This does not mean only the KFPD but also other PDs in Oregon. Alicia and I have also discussed briefly moving to the coast. I would like to start here at the PD and become trained by these officers. Every time I hear the sirens blow by me or see the cars fly, it makes my stomach turn wanting to be in there helping in any way I can. AAAHHHHH! Ohh well....it will happen sooner than later.
Wiard is also taking a toll on me. The project at Crest was suppose to be done a few weeks ago and it continues to be an ongoing project. It is very frustrating when we only have a few people working on it. I am putting in a lot of hours trying to finish moving dirt back into the trenches. I am losing valuable time with my family and missing them tremendously. My wife has been raising our kids by herself with little help from me. I go to Mills at 7:00 and get home about 8:00. Those are 13 hour days 5 days a week. That is to much. I also have been trying to do more work at the PD to get back into the swing of things. I wish Wiard was done so I didn't have to work so hard there and I can spend more time with the police department and my family. After Crest is done, I am going to let my boss know I will not be working except for closing duty on Thursday.
Things always get better. It is said that He does not give us more than we can handle. I think this is a great test!!! Hopefully I will be able write more. I would like to write daily or at least every other day. Talk to you later!
The students at school are getting a little crazy lately. They seem to think the year is over and they do not have to work or follow any rules. They are driving me crazy!! For some reason or another, the kids are making their lives harder. There are things they still get to do at the end of the year, however, I wonder if they will make it.
Work is also becoming more difficult. With the school asking more and more of the teachers with little incentive, I wonder how many teachers are going to be willing to stick it out. I love teaching and it hurts me to think that I might not be in the schools much longer. I will be making the swich to law enforcement as soon as my leg is better.
I need to be able to run and pass the physical exams for the PD. This does not mean only the KFPD but also other PDs in Oregon. Alicia and I have also discussed briefly moving to the coast. I would like to start here at the PD and become trained by these officers. Every time I hear the sirens blow by me or see the cars fly, it makes my stomach turn wanting to be in there helping in any way I can. AAAHHHHH! Ohh well....it will happen sooner than later.
Wiard is also taking a toll on me. The project at Crest was suppose to be done a few weeks ago and it continues to be an ongoing project. It is very frustrating when we only have a few people working on it. I am putting in a lot of hours trying to finish moving dirt back into the trenches. I am losing valuable time with my family and missing them tremendously. My wife has been raising our kids by herself with little help from me. I go to Mills at 7:00 and get home about 8:00. Those are 13 hour days 5 days a week. That is to much. I also have been trying to do more work at the PD to get back into the swing of things. I wish Wiard was done so I didn't have to work so hard there and I can spend more time with the police department and my family. After Crest is done, I am going to let my boss know I will not be working except for closing duty on Thursday.
Things always get better. It is said that He does not give us more than we can handle. I think this is a great test!!! Hopefully I will be able write more. I would like to write daily or at least every other day. Talk to you later!
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Great Weekend
This last weekend was great! It started out with hanging out with the Macdonald family on Friday night. We love to be around them. They are great people and fabulous to our kids. If there is a silver lining with this whole knee thing, it has been getting to know Jeremy and Julie. They both were great to Alicia and I during the surgery and continue to be great friends. All of our kids love them and they are more family now than friends. Julie and Alicia talked websites and photography, while Jeremy and I played the wii. Pretty fun!
On Saturday, Alicia and I were invited by Eric (my physical therapist) and his wife to go to the Cowboy Dinner Tree in Silver Lake. We met at his house at 5:00 and went in the Lincoln Navigator limo. It was awsome. I think the limo could fit 20 people. We went with a few other couples and some singles as well. I think we left with 6 bottles of rum, 1 bottle of Yeager, a fifth of Black Velvet, another fifth of Pendeton, and beer. After the 2+ hours, we were very "happy." I say we but really it was everyone else but me. I got sick thanks to Norco and alcohol mix. That really sucked but it was good to be out with friends and hang out. We met some really cool people too! After dinner, we loaded back up and went back to Klamath. Alicia and the girls went to Waldos to continue the party while I went back to Eric's house and hung out until the girls got back. Then we went home about 2AM. I found out that I really am not as young as I use to be. I use to be able to work on 4-6 hours of sleep a night and funtion. Now, if I don't get a minimum of 7-9, my whole week is shot. I woke up this morning so tired. I took a small nap (it would have been longer had Emalie not woke me up) and took the afternoon off.
I would have to say that I needed this weekend even though I did not sleep very much! I love spending time with my wife and being around friends. The limo was a probably a once in a lifetime experience and we definitly made the best of that time.
On Saturday, Alicia and I were invited by Eric (my physical therapist) and his wife to go to the Cowboy Dinner Tree in Silver Lake. We met at his house at 5:00 and went in the Lincoln Navigator limo. It was awsome. I think the limo could fit 20 people. We went with a few other couples and some singles as well. I think we left with 6 bottles of rum, 1 bottle of Yeager, a fifth of Black Velvet, another fifth of Pendeton, and beer. After the 2+ hours, we were very "happy." I say we but really it was everyone else but me. I got sick thanks to Norco and alcohol mix. That really sucked but it was good to be out with friends and hang out. We met some really cool people too! After dinner, we loaded back up and went back to Klamath. Alicia and the girls went to Waldos to continue the party while I went back to Eric's house and hung out until the girls got back. Then we went home about 2AM. I found out that I really am not as young as I use to be. I use to be able to work on 4-6 hours of sleep a night and funtion. Now, if I don't get a minimum of 7-9, my whole week is shot. I woke up this morning so tired. I took a small nap (it would have been longer had Emalie not woke me up) and took the afternoon off.
I would have to say that I needed this weekend even though I did not sleep very much! I love spending time with my wife and being around friends. The limo was a probably a once in a lifetime experience and we definitly made the best of that time.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
After surgery
It has been awhile again since I have written. On Tuesday I went to the hospital to have my knee scoped. The doctor was going to look and see if there was any minescus damage, clean scar tissue, and manipulate it while asleep. I was lucky on this surgery. While in surgery, we found that there was no minescus damage and he did not have to manipulate it!! This is great news. He did tell me he took out a lot of scar tissue. This means that recovery is not going to be prolonged at this point! I thank God for his help in my healing!! Thanks to all those people praying for me as well and keeping my family and I in their thoughts!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
It's been awhile
I have not written in a while and a lot has happened. The story starts before Spring Break. At my doctors appointment on the Thursday before, I was told that he would go in and scope the knee. The doctor is a little worried with the popping sound because it is not a consistant pop. He thinks it might be minescus damage. If that is the case and he has to repair it, I will be non weight bearing for another 4 weeks and will be set back another couple of months. I know it is not his fault but man, I want this to be over.
During Spring Break I worked at Wiard putting in a sprinkler system at Crest Park. We had a large crew working with us and the excitment was overwhelming. We were all ready to put this system in. I think it is because most of the crew saw it grow from a piece of paper and now it is a reality. We ran into problems the very first day. The equipment we rented ended up not working and put us behind. Then we got new equipment and it also was not working well. We were 2 days behind by Wednesday. To add insult to injury, we also were dealing with freezing temperatures. Our faces were all wind burnt and hands were cold. We still stuck it out and worked together. We did not finish even the main line but we were able to continue to work and stay busy. One more thing went wrong, I looked at the bid and the supply list and I under ordered the pipe. I had to sit for a couple hours and try to figure out where I went wrong. I ended up having to order more pipe which added another 3200 dollars to the project. This was huge because the board only approved the budget for the project to not exceed 11,000 dollars and the pipe set us over. My boss had to get a hold of board members and tell them what happened and get a census over the phone in order to get the rest of the money. I have a feeling I will be answering for that in the next meeting. I just can't believe I did not catch the mistake before then. Oh well!
The weekend was much needed. I had to work for a few hours on Saturday to try and make up some time that we lost because of the equipment problems. After I got home, Alicia and I dropped off our kids with my parents and headed to Medford for a mini vacation. This was nice because I needed some of the relax time and we were also able to spend quality time together. We went to Costco first and got stuff for the house and we then ended up looking for a hotel. We decided on the Shilo which ended up being horrible. This was by far the worst Shilo I have ever been in. The first room that we went to had hair in the bed and almost made us both puke. We got another room and then headed for dinner; we did this at the Red Robin. We then went to Circuit City where Alicia was able to get some supplies for her camera. Then off to the hotel to sit in the hot tub. The hot tub was being used by a family with kids so we decided to try the sauna and steam room. When we finally went into the hot tub, the water was the temperature of a bath that a 1 year old would enjoy. It was not warm at all...very disappointing!!! Then of to bed (or grown up time :-) ). On Sunday we met up with a friend who just had twins 7 weeks early so the babies were in the NICU in Medford. We were able to see the babies and Alicia held one of them. I sat outside because they were really tiny! Afterwards, we took the parents out to dinner at the Olive Garden and then headed back to Klamath to get a good nights sleep.
I guess I can't complain to much about the week. I found out that my sugery is set up for April 8th so I am taking the 8th and 9th off. I hope and pray that the doctor can get my knee up and running so I can begin my career in law enforcement sooner rather than later!
During Spring Break I worked at Wiard putting in a sprinkler system at Crest Park. We had a large crew working with us and the excitment was overwhelming. We were all ready to put this system in. I think it is because most of the crew saw it grow from a piece of paper and now it is a reality. We ran into problems the very first day. The equipment we rented ended up not working and put us behind. Then we got new equipment and it also was not working well. We were 2 days behind by Wednesday. To add insult to injury, we also were dealing with freezing temperatures. Our faces were all wind burnt and hands were cold. We still stuck it out and worked together. We did not finish even the main line but we were able to continue to work and stay busy. One more thing went wrong, I looked at the bid and the supply list and I under ordered the pipe. I had to sit for a couple hours and try to figure out where I went wrong. I ended up having to order more pipe which added another 3200 dollars to the project. This was huge because the board only approved the budget for the project to not exceed 11,000 dollars and the pipe set us over. My boss had to get a hold of board members and tell them what happened and get a census over the phone in order to get the rest of the money. I have a feeling I will be answering for that in the next meeting. I just can't believe I did not catch the mistake before then. Oh well!
The weekend was much needed. I had to work for a few hours on Saturday to try and make up some time that we lost because of the equipment problems. After I got home, Alicia and I dropped off our kids with my parents and headed to Medford for a mini vacation. This was nice because I needed some of the relax time and we were also able to spend quality time together. We went to Costco first and got stuff for the house and we then ended up looking for a hotel. We decided on the Shilo which ended up being horrible. This was by far the worst Shilo I have ever been in. The first room that we went to had hair in the bed and almost made us both puke. We got another room and then headed for dinner; we did this at the Red Robin. We then went to Circuit City where Alicia was able to get some supplies for her camera. Then off to the hotel to sit in the hot tub. The hot tub was being used by a family with kids so we decided to try the sauna and steam room. When we finally went into the hot tub, the water was the temperature of a bath that a 1 year old would enjoy. It was not warm at all...very disappointing!!! Then of to bed (or grown up time :-) ). On Sunday we met up with a friend who just had twins 7 weeks early so the babies were in the NICU in Medford. We were able to see the babies and Alicia held one of them. I sat outside because they were really tiny! Afterwards, we took the parents out to dinner at the Olive Garden and then headed back to Klamath to get a good nights sleep.
I guess I can't complain to much about the week. I found out that my sugery is set up for April 8th so I am taking the 8th and 9th off. I hope and pray that the doctor can get my knee up and running so I can begin my career in law enforcement sooner rather than later!
Sunday, March 16, 2008
WHOA!!!
My knee is feeling better and I am able to do more things. We went out to celebrate because my therapist put me on the eliptical and told me this was the first step to running. I also got ahold of the LT and he informed me that I could go in and work at the PD and run calls. This would help and free up the regulars from those calls. He is still going to talk to the chief about getting me on the list by using my last ORPAT score. Things are still moving in a positive direction. Alicia continues to be very supportive of this change and is looking forward to it.
Ashlie ended up getting sick this week. She is struggling to breath because her little nose is so stuffed up. She went to the Dr on Friday after school and we were told she has the crud that everyone else it Klamath has. She also might have RSV which sucks because our family friend just got over it. She kept me up Friday night (I got about 3 hours of sleep) and spent the night my parents on Saturday night. That was a great break. She is still sounding horrible.
This week is going to be a good week. I see my doctor on Thursday and it should go really well.
Ashlie ended up getting sick this week. She is struggling to breath because her little nose is so stuffed up. She went to the Dr on Friday after school and we were told she has the crud that everyone else it Klamath has. She also might have RSV which sucks because our family friend just got over it. She kept me up Friday night (I got about 3 hours of sleep) and spent the night my parents on Saturday night. That was a great break. She is still sounding horrible.
This week is going to be a good week. I see my doctor on Thursday and it should go really well.
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