"24" hours of heroin

Friday was my first official shift as a D/O and we actually had a couple of calls that I could have had to pump on. The first was an alarm at the hydroponics building and the second one (which was conveniently about 2:30 am) was reported as "...smoke showing from the waste barn..." Neither of them really turned out to be anything but they both had some potential to have been exciting. Earlier that same night at the station, Kyle all of a sudden comes roaring into dispatch with lights and sirens of the Petau kind. He's jumping around on the station's "Rad Board" and practicing up for some boarding out at station two next shift. It was hysterical! He's likely one of the funniest people I know. Lucky for me that I work with him on occasion back home. He's with Wheatridge FD and so I've run a few calls with him while working on the ambulance for Pridemark. Too funny...

Sunday morning comes about and we are at station two again. It's really foggy and getting more windy as we are driving out from station one. Consequently, the two flights that were supposed to be coming from Christchurch were delayed and then cancelled due to weather. We took that opportunity to scrounge for food again. Omelets and cinnamon toast made an acceptable breakfast. Then we managed to get ourselves all sucked up in the heroin we like to call "24". We started by watching one episode from where I'd left off. They wanted to see the first four episodes, but I didn't have the patience to re-watch them all as I was desperate to get on to the next one. The one turned into two, then four, then eight... We did take bathroom breaks nearly every hour but couldn't pull ourselves away long enough to go find lunch food at the galley. Instead we went with the bulk frozen cheese & bean burritos that live in the station two freezer. One minute and 50 seconds and you have quite a surprisingly delectable mealtime option. I must admit that I was a bit wary of them, but they were more than good. They were delicious! Reminded me of the Lynn Wilson burritos of my teenage years. Mmmm!!! By the end of the night we had watched twelve straight hours of the show and had to force ourselves to put it away and get some sleep. At one point one of the disc's kept freezing up and we had to manually try to fast forward past that spot. As we have only a PlayStation out there to watch DVD's on we had to use the game controller. Kyle got tired of holding down the finger button so he rigged up his shoe to do the job for him. Likely not too funny, but after that many straight hours of such intense work it was the funniest thing ever. Let me tell you, trying to spend so much time smack in the middle of an attempted assassination of a presidential candidate and then dealing with kidnappings on top of all that was exhausting! It's nice that we have Sundays where we spend so much time in the luge position. Without my daily Starbuck's I've got to feed my addiction some way, don't I?