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[limr13]

I'm late, but good night Marija!

Sweet potato pie in the oven. Hack job, it was really. I imagine the filling will be fine, but I think the dish is probably too deep and I have no idea how the crust is going to come out.

Good times. Cooking surprises on a rainy Thursday evening!

 

[snowbear97]

OK. For anyone that is interested in history (I am only slightly), here is a little thing I found a few years ago. But first, the background.

Fire Department Operations & Communications centers, like many places, once used log books to track personnel coming on or going off duty at shift change, major incidents, and general information needed by command staff. Personnel and incident tracking his has been largely replaced by computer systems, even in the smallest departments. Operational details of a fire or a vehicle collision can be accessed in the matter of seconds.

A few years ago, I had a real office. The space had previously been occupied by the fire communications command staff, a Battalion Chief (the rank between Captain and Major in our department.) I was cleaning out a supply closet and discovered a number (many) of the log books sitting in boxes. I started going through them and found some to be quite old. My office mate expressed a desire to have one particular book, the one that was used when he started as a dispatcher, so I found it and gave it to him. I also grabbed two others before sending the rest to the Volunteer Fire Commission, in case they wanted them for historical purposes.

The first book I kept covered October 1982, the day police communications moved into that building with fire communications. I was a police dispatcher at the time. Nothing special but I spent half of my career in that building.

The second has this. It is a simple notation that the stations' sirens were sounded.

 

[shefjr]

OK. For anyone that is interested in history (I am only slightly), here is a little thing I found a few years ago. But first, the background.

Fire Department Operations & Communications centers, like many places, once used log books to track personnel coming on or going off duty at shift change, major incidents, and general information needed by command staff. Personnel and incident tracking his has been largely replaced by computer systems, even in the smallest departments. Operational details of a fire or a vehicle collision can be accessed in the matter of seconds.

A few years ago, I had a real office. The space had previously been occupied by the fire communications command staff, a Battalion Chief (the rank between Captain and Major in our department.) I was cleaning out a supply closet and discovered a number (many) of the log books sitting in boxes. I started going through them and found some to be quite old. My office mate expressed a desire to have one particular book, the one that was used when he started as a dispatcher, so I found it and gave it to him. I also grabbed two others before sending the rest to the Volunteer Fire Commission, in case they wanted them for historical purposes.

The first book I kept covered October 1982, the day police communications moved into that building with fire communications. I was a police dispatcher at the time. Nothing special but I spent half of my career in that building.

The second has this. It is a simple notation that the stations' sirens were sounded.

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I think that's really cool! I'm a volunteer and about six years back we found some of our original call logs for our ambulance. I don't know where they are anymore and suspect that someone threw them out, sadly. They dated back to 1968.
Anyway, that is a cool log. It's neat to read!

 

[snowbear97]

Thanks. We are a combined (volunteers and career) department with 47 currently active stations.

 

[sm4him]

Proposal: Failed.

There were 3 options. Pass it as is to start in January, Pass it with a very minor adjustment, to start next May, or don't pass it.

There are two main reasons I am elated it didn't pass:
1. NONE of the passengers who regularly use this route liked the proposal. Not a single one; at least, none of the ones that either wrote comments or spoke at the public hearing.
To have passed this would have been the equivalent of putting a sign out front saying, "Dear Passengers: F*** You, We'll Do What We Want."

2. 4B was literally the ONLY staff person still wanting this proposal to pass and she was really SMUG about her confidence that it would. She told my boss in no uncertain terms that it WOULD pass, and basically insinuated that she had singlehandedly made sure of that by talking to each board member. The assumption was that she somehow holds such sway that they would do whatever she wants.
In fact, they chose to listen to our passengers. Go figure.

I'd like to think this might bring her down a peg and humble her a little, but I'm sure it will just make her angry in addition to being bossy, bulldozy and b*tchy as a boss.
What's a B word for angry? I might have to make her 5B.

 

[snowbear97]

Proposal: Failed.

There were 3 options. Pass it as is to start in January, Pass it with a very minor adjustment, to start next May, or don't pass it.

There are two main reasons I am elated it didn't pass:
1. NONE of the passengers who regularly use this route liked the proposal. Not a single one; at least, none of the ones that either wrote comments or spoke at the public hearing.
To have passed this would have been the equivalent of putting a sign out front saying, "Dear Passengers: F*** You, We'll Do What We Want."

2. 4B was literally the ONLY staff person still wanting this proposal to pass and she was really SMUG about her confidence that it would. She told my boss in no uncertain terms that it WOULD pass, and basically insinuated that she had singlehandedly made sure of that by talking to each board member. The assumption was that she somehow holds such sway that they would do whatever she wants.
In fact, they chose to listen to our passengers. Go figure.

I'd like to think this might bring her down a peg and humble her a little, but I'm sure it will just make her angry in addition to being bossy, bulldozy and b*tchy as a boss.
What's a B word for angry? I might have to make her 5B.

I'm not sure it means angry, but how about bat $hit (as one word)?

 

[sm4him]

Belligerent!!

 

[sm4him]

But Batsh*t works too.

 

[snowbear97]

Bossy, Bulldozy, Bitchy, Belligerent, Batsh*t (Broad)

 

[Gary A.]

I'm late, but good night Marija!

Sweet potato pie in the oven. Hack job, it was really. I imagine the filling will be fine, but I think the dish is probably too deep and I have no idea how the crust is going to come out.

Good times. Cooking surprises on a rainy Thursday evening!

My daughter in St. Louis enjoys baking. I'm not a baker ... not enough action.

 

[Gary A.]

OK. For anyone that is interested in history (I am only slightly), here is a little thing I found a few years ago. But first, the background.

Fire Department Operations & Communications centers, like many places, once used log books to track personnel coming on or going off duty at shift change, major incidents, and general information needed by command staff. Personnel and incident tracking his has been largely replaced by computer systems, even in the smallest departments. Operational details of a fire or a vehicle collision can be accessed in the matter of seconds.

A few years ago, I had a real office. The space had previously been occupied by the fire communications command staff, a Battalion Chief (the rank between Captain and Major in our department.) I was cleaning out a supply closet and discovered a number (many) of the log books sitting in boxes. I started going through them and found some to be quite old. My office mate expressed a desire to have one particular book, the one that was used when he started as a dispatcher, so I found it and gave it to him. I also grabbed two others before sending the rest to the Volunteer Fire Commission, in case they wanted them for historical purposes.

The first book I kept covered October 1982, the day police communications moved into that building with fire communications. I was a police dispatcher at the time. Nothing special but I spent half of my career in that building.

The second has this. It is a simple notation that the stations' sirens were sounded.

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I love history ... that is great!

 

[snowbear97]

OK. For anyone that is interested in history (I am only slightly), here is a little thing I found a few years ago. But first, the background.

Fire Department Operations & Communications centers, like many places, once used log books to track personnel coming on or going off duty at shift change, major incidents, and general information needed by command staff. Personnel and incident tracking his has been largely replaced by computer systems, even in the smallest departments. Operational details of a fire or a vehicle collision can be accessed in the matter of seconds.

A few years ago, I had a real office. The space had previously been occupied by the fire communications command staff, a Battalion Chief (the rank between Captain and Major in our department.) I was cleaning out a supply closet and discovered a number (many) of the log books sitting in boxes. I started going through them and found some to be quite old. My office mate expressed a desire to have one particular book, the one that was used when he started as a dispatcher, so I found it and gave it to him. I also grabbed two others before sending the rest to the Volunteer Fire Commission, in case they wanted them for historical purposes.

The first book I kept covered October 1982, the day police communications moved into that building with fire communications. I was a police dispatcher at the time. Nothing special but I spent half of my career in that building.

The second has this. It is a simple notation that the stations' sirens were sounded.

View attachment 87552

I love history ... that is great!

Thank you

 

[Gary A.]

The mail just came. I'm review some of the political pieces ... some of it is just greatly entertaining stuff.

 

[sm4him]

Okay, back to my sibs and my cousin/sibs.

Here's a picture of us in the very early 60s, probably about 62:

The three oldest, the boys, are at the "tall" end, on the left, then my oldest cousin, then another cousin who didn't live next door (the one being fondled by the next girl, lol), then the younger cousin, and finally my sister and me, standing like I belong behind a plow. In my defense, I was probably barely walking at this point.

Flash forward, sometime late 70s, probably about 78:

My middle brother isn't in this one, but at the time, it was pretty much a dead heat between the three boys for height (the youngest boy ended up being the tallest, about 6'7". He's probably "only" about 6'4" here).
My two cousins, still sandwiched in the middle, but now at the bottom of the height spectrum. In this photo, I had probably just recently passed my older sister in height.

I really need to see if I can get us lined up for a new picture. But it's rare to get even six of us in one place anymore.
These days, a picture by height would be the youngest boy, the oldest boy, the middle boy, me, my sister, then the two cousins, oldest first, then youngest.

 

[snowbear97]

Awwwww . . . so cute!!