Mixed bag

Today was a mixed day of good and bad.  I will start off with the good.  I was called into work a couple times, the bad part of that is the first call back was at 3 am.  So no good, but it gets worse.  After I got home I went back to bed hoping to go back to sleep, but to no avail.  I wasn't able to sleep so I decided to get up and study a bit for my firearms course I was planning to take today.  I studied for a bit, until I was feeling tired and like I would actually be able to sleep.  So I went back to bed hoping to fall back into a deep sleep.  Wrong again.  I went back to bed about twenty to 5 and still didn't get to sleep until almost 6.  All of this is kinda annoying as I had another callback coming in a couple hours at 8.  So I finally was able to sleep, only to wake up again about 5 to eight.  So I got up and got ready for my second callback of the day.  I got to the hospital to find out that the patient I was supposed to be taking blood from had eaten in the middle of the night, which is a big no go when your having fasting blood work done in the morning.  So I came back home and studied until 10, when the patient would have been fasting for long enough.

After the call was done I came home again and Sonja was just starting to do the dishes.  She told me I could study a bit.  I felt bad and helped her out.  After the dishes Sonja started making the pizza crust for tonight's supper, as she is the DPM or Designated Pizza Maker.  I studied some more.  I was challenging the Firearms Safety Course test at 1 so I had a timeline to be ready for.  At about ten to one I went up to the school where it was being offered and started to write it.  I did the written portion in about 15 minutes.  Since I was just challenging I let the people actually taking the course, do their practical portion before me.  So I sat around and waited for a couple hours for everyone paying for the course to go ahead and finish up.  I was finally able to go.  I started around quarter to 4 and finished up by 4.  For all of you wondering I passed.  I got 96% combined on both sections.  So thats good enough for government work is what the instructor told me.  It is nice to get that out of the way, since I was planning on taking it over Christmas, but just ran out of time in our busy schedule.

I came home with a pit stop at the grocery store, with a big sign greeting me 'NO FREIGHT UNTIL FEBRUARY 28.'  I promptly turned around, left and came home.

Once I was home I found that supper was almost ready.  It was buffalo chicken pizza tonight.  It was so good, as it always is when Sonja cooks pizza.

Sonja has been watching the Oscars all night and I have been doing a mixture of taking out the garbage, shoveling snow, showering and studying a little bit of physics.  I will probably be going to bed soon as I am pretty tired from my early start to my day.

Oh yeah, it was snowing most of the day, explaining why I was shoveling.  You have to keep ahead of this wet snow, or it gets to be ice, or just to heavy to move.

Tyler