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Last night I was happy to notice that I'd achieved 99 posts here at Notes. I made big plans for #100; I'd have a success story; something happy; and given the date, something for which to be thankful. Then my day took a left turn. Straight into the Jersey barriers. Chang came to us in… Continue reading Post #100
Over the years I've developed three principles in dealing with vendors. Call them Mack505's Rules of Business, if you will. 1. Arrive/be open when you promise. 2. Do what you promise. 3. Get it right the first time. It's that simple: WHEN, WHAT, RIGHT. Vendors who meet the requirements get repeat business and good reviews;… Continue reading The Car Wash, or three steps to fix the economy
The house sits on a corner along one of our main response routes, yet I've never noticed it before. The area is mostly commercial; a used car lot borders on one side, a street on the other. A brick warehouse, dark and sulking, sits across the way.The call is for an unknown medical, so the… Continue reading Um, yeah
Well, I've finally hit the big time here at NfMH. I've started getting comment SPAM. For those of you who do genuinely comment, I appreciate them very much.Comment moderation has been enabled. Hopefully I'll be able to respond to comments in a timely fashion, yet keep the SPAM out.
We miss the address on the first try. As we come back the wrong way up the one-way street, we find it. Maybe. A tiny silver number resides on a black mailbox, in the weeds and bushes, at the foot of something that might be a driveway. This has to be it. The numbers on… Continue reading Everest
The vast lobby of Big City Memorial Hospital bustles in the early fall afternoon. The revolving glass doors let sunlight and visitors in, while keeping the fall chill outside. The atrium soars three stories above; the hospital designers seem to have placed a roof over the space between two buildings, and then decided, “Hey, this… Continue reading Grace
I have another post cooking, but for now here's a video tidbit to enjoy:http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/gVURYLt20LQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0Shot from the ramp of our station this morning. Between the ongoing monsoon and a stubborn camera battery, this was the best shot I could get. Newbury Ladder 3 was passing through town en route to a mutual aid assignment in Ipswich.… Continue reading YouTube is great for wasting time
Starting a blog has been compared to shouting in an empty room. You start out alone, and eventually you realize that people are stopping by to listen. Some of them are shouting, too.If you are a paramedic, you may notice that some of these people are other paramedics. Perhaps you strike up a friendship with… Continue reading The Project
“Medic 9 to operations, you'd better send the police down behind Stop & Shop. Some guy was just trying to flag us down.”The dispatcher acknowledged, then looked to us. “Why don't you take A9 and check it out? It's right down the block. I'll notify Sin City PD.”OG and I saddled up the Ambulance 9… Continue reading Scene safety
"Hey, why are you over here? The fire's back that way!" Yes sir, it sure does look that way. D'oh!
Notes from Mosquito Hill 