This Blog Is Undergoing Renovations

i'm not sure how to fix some stuff, so i may be switching to another template shortly. this one isn't the most user-friendly, since there's a lot of hidden stuff which isn't easy to change without messing the whole works up beyond help.
if anyone knows where to find a template with 2 sidebars that has a simple-to-read HTML setup, please let me know.
if anyone still reads this thing, which is doubtful. ;)

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So Blogger made me switch to the new Blogger. I didn't want to, though. I was so comfortable in my little groove. It seems to be going better than I expected, however, so I will stop griping and see if I can think of anything interesting.
Staying in a hotel by oneself is a weirdly fun experience. I did learn that the 'Shhh!' sign needs to be used in all cases. I was planning to sleep until 10:45 and had requested no wakeup call, but didn't expect the cleaning ladies to come by at 9:30 and knock. I will always use it from now on. It was fun and interesting to go all the way down to Red Deer by myself last week. The drive was okay and I got through the Int'l Airport bypass okay without going wrong. In Red Deer I drove quite a while through the city, and spotted two of the emergency stations accidentally. :-) The tests were okay as well. The testers were friendly and encouraging. I passed the practical portion of the exam, and just have to wait another 4-6 weeks for the written marks to come back, along with my provincial registration #. I also finally got my Class 5 licence, so Class 4 road test coming up soon, I guess.
I'm deciding now what kind of schedule I want. I really lean toward saying 2 days, 2 nights, 4 off, no exceptions. I miss my nights, although I know it's tough on the girls to be quiet, but maybe I'll just have to let them noise and use earplugs like lots of people I know. I really miss nights, actually. :-/ And I still hope to work part-time for Medicare Ambulance, Westlock Ambulance, and possibly but not likely Inter-Hospital Transfer on my 'days off.'
If anyone has ideas for something I could do on my 'days off' that is not protective services related, please let me know. I don't want to get tired of this by overdosing. :-)
Anyway, cha for now. I feel tired again.

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I quit at FCSS. Next week is my last week there. I like working with the older people, but the bathrooms have gotten to me. Besides, I can earn as much in 1 day at Kyetech as 3 at FCSS.
I'm starting to work 3-4 days a week with Kyetech again. I also went by the RCMP station and dropped of a resume for Cpl. B to look at. I think it would be fun to help with some of the paperwork they're always fighting with there. Not sure if he's going to like the hours I'm going to be available, but the dispatcher I talked to seemed happy to know I was interested.
And I finally have another ride-along set up for Tuesday night with H. and whoever he's working with. Hopefully T., but I think he's out stuck in a hospital doing his intermediate paramedic practicum.
I just got the paperwork re my provincial exam in the mail. It's Friday night and Saturday afternoon two weeks from now. I guess I need to buckle down and study my textbook from back to front and front to back a couple of times. You need a 75%, and as far as I know I had an 87% on the written at college, but I'm bound to have a lost a little. Not too worried, but I really would like to pass with a good mark. 75% just doesn't seem like enough, although they've set it there knowing that people are going to be nervous. Also, our scenarios are just verbalized. We don't really see the blood and stuff. In real life a lot of things would be more obvious, and you would see them, but in scenario-land, you have to verbalize what you're looking to see and what you're doing about it. And I think that a lot more of the less practical skills will be a easier to remember when we come to use them. So don't worry about the 25% we possibly didn't get on the exam. It's not going to kill you. Doesn't actually mean we don't know 25% of our stuff. :-)
It feels like spring outside. It should. It's +5 outside.
Last night Julie and I went to the local CLAC Spring Banquet. I've never been to one before, and it was interesting. I've never really thought much about unions, since I've never needed to join one, but I guess it makes sense to have a Christian one. What amazed me most was the amount of people on the Suncor site in Ft. Mac who belong to it.
Thursday night I went to an info session on Methamphetamine in Westlock. An RCMP corporal from Edmonton gave it, and it was really really interesting. The cops who were on duty that night came and sat in the very back, at the top of the theatre, and about halfway through we heard some soft talking on their radios and then some thumping as the theatre chairs flew back up, and they came tearing down the isle and were not seen again. I hope for their sakes that the call was a 'good' one, if you'll excuse the terminology. The presentation was too good to miss.
This is my first weekend home since the beginning of the year. I'm sick. I did clean my room though, and am considering rearranging the whole thing. I probably won't.
Anyway. It's lunch time. The bread is just out of the oven.

I guess I haven't posted for a month. Time goes by too quickly.
I love school so far. Not sure if three more weeks of part-time are going to be enough for me. I have most of the spring and summer to decide if I might want to go on to EMT, because that starts in September. I guess it would make sense to find out if being an EMR is at all useful to me first. :)
Sorry for the brevity, I need to go lie down. I have a bad cold, and bed is calling, loudly.