Yo yo yo!

I kind of feel like I owe an update. I can't be shown up by Angel who is a posting fiend lately!

I'm really not sure what's been going on with me lately. I think I posted about my first trip up to Nebraska when we went up there to burn. I spent another week or so in a different part of the state for a conference for work. Kind of fun...included folks from up and down the central U.S. as well as Meso-America and the Caribbean. It was held up at a conference center in Nebraska City that was one of the most amazing places I've ever stayed. The food was absolutely off the hook and they had activities planned for us every night that typically included an open bar starting with dinner through the first two hours of whatever was planned. I had been doing a lot of jogging and working out for the few months before I went up there and had knocked off upwards of 15 pounds. In one week I managed to put it all back on with the crazy food up there. Fresh Apple pie available at every meal? I mean come on! Anyway, had a good time and learned a lot. Really more of a vacation with co-workers rather than a work event. The highlight of the event was a tornado warning that had us all sent to the basement of the conference center. Growing up in Georgia, a tornado warning wasn't exactly new. What WAS new however, was having the bartender from upstairs decide that as long as he was down there, and the big tub of beer waiting to be taken up to the bar was down there, that there was no reason he couldn't serve beer in the basement! The tornado warning with beer service was a first. At least here we didn't have to get down on our knees and kiss our ass goodbye like we did back in elementary school.

Work...our summer season is starting and our summer seasonal guys are on-board. We've gotten on a few fires recently but mainly we've just been working on training together and getting equipment ready. My whole crew headed a few hours north on some wildfires yesterday but unfortunately I'm a moron and sliced my knee open on an oyster reef while fishing this weekend so I'm on the bench for a few days waiting for my knee to explode in infection. Apparently oysters can carry some pretty nasty bacteria and it's often suggested that you don't hang out in the coastal waters with an open wound. I didn't help matters by actually slicing myself on one. How I ended up in the water on my knees is a whole different entry for a different time, but it involves two of us ending up with one single kayak filled half full of water and desperately trying to beat an approaching storm back to shore and then having to walk a mile down a dirt/gravel road being sandblasted by the 30mph winds blowing in our faces (and into my open wound). Fun. I promise.

Now I'm hanging out hoping that the minimal puffy infection that has set in gets its ass kicked by the antibiotics I started today. We'll see!

I think I'm done for now. Toodles!