Military Medical Team Makes the 'Toughest Call' (GI IMPALED BY BOMB - courage abounds!!!)

ABC News ^ | 9/22/07 | Ruth Reiss

[Tax-chick]

I used to take any temp job that paid more than the cost of gas to drive to it. Work is work.

[Dead Corpse]

Today is my last day though. Next Thursday I start my more permanent position that actually uses my main skill set.

[Tax-chick]

Terrific!

[sionnsar]

Income is income.

[Monkey Face]

Howdy!

[sionnsar]

Morning. I think. Yup, the sky isn’t black anymore so it must be morning...

[Monkey Face]

We’re starting to get the smoke from the SoCal fires, now. I’ll have to shut my door and windows in a minute or three.

It sure looks ugly.

[sionnsar]

I’m just beginning to catch up with the world this morning. How is the fire-fighting going? (I know, it’s nearer to R than you)

[Monkey Face]

It looks like they’ve gotten most of it under control, and I believe the death count is up to seven.

1800 homes destroyed.

[sionnsar]

7, ugh.

Other things can be replaced. LoM's family lost everything but what they had in their suitcases in a fire in Iran; only thing lamented: the photos.

[Monkey Face]

I often wonder how I would get the things out that needed to go in a situation like that.

My hard drive holds a lot of stuff, I have lots of genealogy, journals and photos that are not on the computer, and of course, my important documents. That translates to about two or three tubsful, not to mention the three-day emergency backpack. And of course, the paintings done by my parents and siblings.

I could gather it up and get it into the truck in 15 minutes, but not five.

[sionnsar]

I know exactly where the boxes of photos are — and the computer with the photos.

[Dead Corpse]

Getting all my ammo load would be the hard part. Zon’a laptop, my PC box, the firesafe, “bug out” bag, a few other things... Easy stuff. Getting the several boxes of ammo loaded though would be a chore...

[Monkey Face]

Yep. If I could park outside my front door, I could probably load it all up in the 5 minutes stated on the news, but right now, I have to park almost a block away.

Luckily, we’re not any place close to a “forest,” and no homes nearby, so the fire danger would be quite a bit less for us.

[sionnsar]

Lucky you. The forest comes right up to the house, opposite sides, but felling the trees (which rise up far over the house) is a major problem.

[Monkey Face]

When we lived in Oly, we had a forest in out back yard, but before we moved away, they were surveying the area for a new housing development. *sigh* “Progress.”

[Tax-chick]

Still raining.

I crossed paths with one of the Rude People over in the religion forum, so I’ll be keeping my head down for a while. It must be tough going through life being a creep to everyone.

Time for Vlad’s change and nap, and then it will be my turn on the treadmill.

[Monkey Face]

But you need the rain, right? I stay away from the religion forums. I don’t know when to keep my big mouth shut. *snort*

[Tax-chick]

I keep my mouth shut when other people are rude (usually!).

We do need the rain, but it would be nice to take the little boys to the playground.

[Monkey Face]

Playgrounds are great!