What a last couple days it has been, both privately and professionally. I trudge on though. I met 3 of my co-workers yesterday, including my Captain/officer in charge for the duration of my deployment. I like all three of them luckily. Only 8 more of them to meet, fingers crossed. I have faith, plus I’m going into it with an open mind. Thats all you can do sometimes.
Yesterday was a pretty good day, after meeting my new co-workers we headed to the Fire Academy of The South. I’ve been to 3 fire academies now, and this one may be my favorite. I just had a really good day. It was also nice to see that my co-workers seemed to be solid firefighters, which was such a relief. I suppose I should’ve expected it, someone looking into this line of work and willing to do all the requirements would be more committed to the field than some you see at small municipalities. It was refreshing none the less. It was also EXTREMELY great to hear my captain talk about progression in the fire service and how its a necessity. That might have been the best thing I heard all day yesterday.
So today is going to be an adventure today, I’m flying roughly 9,150 miles today. This journey started at 4 am this morning, even though I don’t fly out from Jacksonville till 7:15 am, here I sit. Forever waiting to board a plane. I leave the United States from my last layover on Tuesday night, and land in New Zealand on Thursday morning. Who needs a Wednesday anyways, right? I’ll also technically be able to mark two more states off my list as well in Texas and California, although I doubt today will be my last times visiting there. Hopefully anyways. I have a 3 hour layover in Houston and a 7 hour layover in Los Angeles. I was planning to leave the airport in LA and maybe stretch my legs a little but I’ve been advised against that due to how horrible the traffic is and how bad it sucks to go through security at LAX. So I suppose that means I’ll be stuck in the airport the whole time much to my horror.
One thing I’ve noticed in writing this blog is how programmed I am to wanna use emojis during it. Its an odd habit that I evidently have developed. One I think I might need to work on, luckily going several months without a phone will help with that. Its like in 2019 when one of my new years resolutions were to stop putting “lol” with every text message. I was able to do it, but I also noticed I had to let some people know I was doing that. Its funny to me that people take little things like answering “Yeah” and “Yeah lol” differently. I’m going to post some pictures at the end of the post, so heads up. Hopefully you survived this whole post, without too much pain. “lol”
-Tyler
P.S. I think I’m going to start doing an artist of the post. Who I as listening to while writing each post. Todays Artist of the Post is the amazing Benjamin Tod/Lost Dog Street Band (Benjamin’s band)
Pitre's Peregrination 