Let's get this party started!
Oct. 4th, 2017 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thetimesinkStories abound. Tales demand to be told. Time has held its wall in place well enough...
As a member of Daynotes, EditThisPage, Frontier, and general blogging when it meant "web log" with personal, tech, and photo pages, TheTimeSink, ever the true "time sink", has been around since 1999 in one form or another. The tag line here (and with LiveJournal prior) is "A home away from home"; that continues. What is likely to change is the level of content and the frequency of posts; it's simply too convenient to work in this medium. The other takeaway is that this place is an excellent place to post "first pass" work that may find a place in one of my other sites. "Tales from the Street" already exists albeit very deliberately choked back for practical reasons. Personal stories pretty much ended when the boys weren't boys anymore. The psychology site was simply blocked via .htaccess. Others may or may not survive the test of time (tech stuff is tech stuff and some very old posts still receive queries for info).
That said, I haven't lost any of my penchant for story-telling. I've just put the online portion on a back burner and utilized other outlets. Times are changing and I think it's time to get back in the game. "How" and "where" are still open as I gather several sites under one umbrella, but here is a good place to turn over the autumn leaves as they fall...
To wit: I've threatened a cv on more than one occasion. I'm thinking that starting with that may give a bit of an overview and background for what progresses from here:
1969 --> 1973: Fresno State College Fire Department (later CSUFresno): basic firefighter training; Fireman, Engineer, Captain; training by Local FD; enrolled in EE degree, cross-enrolled at the local JC for Fire Science degree
1973 --> 1978: California Department of Forestry, Schedule A (structure assignment in a wildland setting); Engineer signed to Westside FD in western Fresno (Coalinga area)
1975 reassigned to Fresno Metro, Battalions 7 and 8 for Paramedic Training
1975: Paramedic training, first class in this area, certified 1975, held continuous through 1994, paramedic, mobile intensive care paramedic
1975 --> 1990: Paramedic, Paramedic Preceptor
1978 Part time with local ambulance provider as Paramedic
1978 left the Fire Service to join the private sector as emergency and transport paramedic
1980 Flight medic with local hospital
1982-->2002 Instructor with the local JC, EMT-I primary and re-certification
1984 our firm received the first exclusive, non-subsidized contract for EMS services utilizing System Status Management and Priority Dispatch west of the Mississippi
1988 I moved more to admin work from field supervision, 1990 moved off a regular shift, 1994 end of cert
Various duties to include: Resource and Facilities (logistics), Plant Management, Network introduction, Purchasing. ...and the ever-present, "And other Duties as Required"
The contract we initiated in 1984 has continued in place with the latest renewal in 2017 good for five more years.
September 20, 2017, advised my position had been eliminated.
So what with the span of time, the integration of a new style of emergency care provider (two actually: EMTs were also new) into a system that would become an EMS "System"; from writing patient care notes on the backs of the envelopes we tore the dressing from to the introduction of ePCRs on tablets... Yeah, there may be a word or two that string together to tell a tale.
BYOB and gather 'round.
(edit: date correction, wording; spelling...)
As a member of Daynotes, EditThisPage, Frontier, and general blogging when it meant "web log" with personal, tech, and photo pages, TheTimeSink, ever the true "time sink", has been around since 1999 in one form or another. The tag line here (and with LiveJournal prior) is "A home away from home"; that continues. What is likely to change is the level of content and the frequency of posts; it's simply too convenient to work in this medium. The other takeaway is that this place is an excellent place to post "first pass" work that may find a place in one of my other sites. "Tales from the Street" already exists albeit very deliberately choked back for practical reasons. Personal stories pretty much ended when the boys weren't boys anymore. The psychology site was simply blocked via .htaccess. Others may or may not survive the test of time (tech stuff is tech stuff and some very old posts still receive queries for info).
That said, I haven't lost any of my penchant for story-telling. I've just put the online portion on a back burner and utilized other outlets. Times are changing and I think it's time to get back in the game. "How" and "where" are still open as I gather several sites under one umbrella, but here is a good place to turn over the autumn leaves as they fall...
To wit: I've threatened a cv on more than one occasion. I'm thinking that starting with that may give a bit of an overview and background for what progresses from here:
1969 --> 1973: Fresno State College Fire Department (later CSUFresno): basic firefighter training; Fireman, Engineer, Captain; training by Local FD; enrolled in EE degree, cross-enrolled at the local JC for Fire Science degree
1973 --> 1978: California Department of Forestry, Schedule A (structure assignment in a wildland setting); Engineer signed to Westside FD in western Fresno (Coalinga area)
1975 reassigned to Fresno Metro, Battalions 7 and 8 for Paramedic Training
1975: Paramedic training, first class in this area, certified 1975, held continuous through 1994, paramedic, mobile intensive care paramedic
1975 --> 1990: Paramedic, Paramedic Preceptor
1978 Part time with local ambulance provider as Paramedic
1978 left the Fire Service to join the private sector as emergency and transport paramedic
1980 Flight medic with local hospital
1982-->2002 Instructor with the local JC, EMT-I primary and re-certification
1984 our firm received the first exclusive, non-subsidized contract for EMS services utilizing System Status Management and Priority Dispatch west of the Mississippi
1988 I moved more to admin work from field supervision, 1990 moved off a regular shift, 1994 end of cert
Various duties to include: Resource and Facilities (logistics), Plant Management, Network introduction, Purchasing. ...and the ever-present, "And other Duties as Required"
The contract we initiated in 1984 has continued in place with the latest renewal in 2017 good for five more years.
September 20, 2017, advised my position had been eliminated.
So what with the span of time, the integration of a new style of emergency care provider (two actually: EMTs were also new) into a system that would become an EMS "System"; from writing patient care notes on the backs of the envelopes we tore the dressing from to the introduction of ePCRs on tablets... Yeah, there may be a word or two that string together to tell a tale.
BYOB and gather 'round.
(edit: date correction, wording; spelling...)
