Category: A Day in the Life

Working the last 24 of my 48 hours today. This will have marked my 2nd 48-hour stint in 1 week. I will be most definitely looing forward to going home and relaxing. It’s really not too bad. But I wouldn’t want to make it a routine habit.

Yesterday, Lindsey and the little guys traveled up to North GA and eventually Tennessee to spend the weekend. I was worried initially that her driving late last night would be a bad idea. But she got there safe and all is well. Thank God.

Many of you have asked why I don’t include more details of my job as a Firefighter on the site. There are a couple reasons but most prevalent: my department has a very strict social media policy where they really don’t want you posting anything. I am still unsure if this qualifies as social media, so I just play it safe and type in broad strokes. So it’s not that I don’t want to, I just officially can’t.

Hopefully, today goes smooth and tomorrow restful. Miss the little guys, miss Lindsey, but they will be home soon enough.

5/23/2016

Angels and Airwaves album “We Don’t Need to Whisper” turned 10 years old today. I can’t explain how influential that album and really, year (2006) shaped my life

Bible reading update time. Today was a big day. I started the book of Isaiah. There is definitely something peculiar about it. The tone is completely separated from any other book I’ve read thus far. I’m excited to still be going strong, though. By the end of this year I can proudly say I read my entire bible.

After 48 hours at the Fire Department, it feels great to be home. Liam and I did some drawing this morning and little Luca just started crawling forward.

We had a bonfire tonight with great friends. It’s funny how such simple acts could be so fulfilling. I think sometimes we assume events need to be extravagant to be worthwhile. I’ve learned the opposite is usually true.

Tomorrow is another day at home chilling with the little guys and a couple of haircuts to close out the day.

5/21/2016

So day 1 at the FD in the books. Couple calls, nothing too serious. On the sick front, alas good news! Lindsey and Liam are feeling a bunch better. Luca still is A-OK. Happy times.

I got a good game of chess in today. I haven’t played in so long, so it was nice flexing those muscles again. I lost, but winning is everything right?

Something crazy did happen today, though. For whatever reason I was washing dishes and must have rubbed my eye at some point. I kid you not, I couldn’t fully open that eye for at least 2 hours. Towards the end there it was kind of scary but a paramedic assured me it would slowly get better and sure enough, he was right.

I was able to watch a little of the Libertarian Debate today. It was insightful and John McAfee really surprised me. I think Gary Johnson is the likely candidate, but all 3 were strong.

Also and probably of utmost importance to readers here, I started my next long-form opinion article. It’s a thought I have been pondering for a very long time and always knew I wanted to write about. But, now seems appropriate. Of course, it will most likely take months to be finished because well, you know me. But it was exciting to get started.

5/20/2016

Thankfully Lindsey was feeling better and she was able to go to work today. We made an appointment for Liam at 10:45 because he was still a little under the weather….. The Dr said Liam has an ear infection. This would explain his pain from the night before. Luca still is doing fine.

Since it was indeed an official sick day, being lazy and watching movies was top priority. (I say being lazy and all but I still achieved completion of the 7 minute workout). The movie list consisted of: Alvin and the chipmunks, how to train your dragon 2, and of course The Polar Express.

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I am doing a bible project. Read the entire bible in 1 year. Today I read the book of Jonah. The ending shocked me. No spoilers here, but the more I read this book the more different it is compared to my expectations.

Lindsey came home on her lunch break and made some spaghetti. We ate it for dinner. Lindsey actually had squash spaghetti. She is doing really well in her diet. I could take a few lessons from her.

Well, tomorrow starts 48 hours at the fire department. Fun times.

5/19/2016

Up at 4am. Shower, shave and car ride. I switched breakfast up today and got some chicfila oatmeal. Not bad at all. Got to work and all was the same. They had a few fires while I was gone. Wish I was there for them.

Unfortunate news out of Egypt today. Supposed terrorist attack. Really sad and unfortunate. We watched it on the news for the majority of the morning.

I read a little more of my Ron Paul book. While it is still way over my head, I’m starting to understand the broad strokes of his theories. For some reason, they make too much sense for the American public. He is still widely known as an extremist although his policies amazingly resemble the founding fathers. Odd.

Had a good phone conversations with my brother, Mike and Dad today . We talked a little of Mike’s plans of visiting. Looking forward to seeing him. My Dad told me he is moving forward with his condo. He sounded happy and excited. Great news!

Lindsey and Liam are not feeling well at all. All of this sort of came on suddenly. Lindsey went to the Dr’s today and was prescribed some medicine. If Liam isn’t feeling better tomorrow I will bring him also. I wish I was home to help. Hopefully I could be of more help tomorrow when I get off of my shift.

5/18/2016

Today started out pretty slowly. Woke up around 6:30, 7-minute workout, 1 egg because well, we only had 1 egg left. Then…..shower.

Today also commenced Liam’s summer vacation. While this was different than our usual routine, things went pretty smoothly. I’m going to try to implement some new activities for Liam this summer. More of outdoorsy stuff mixed in with reading more books and drawing. You know artsy stuff. More stuff than just watching TV shows on Netflix all day.

Luca slept in the latest (around 8:30) and let’s just say… he needed a bath and diaper change. So there was that.

Fast forward a little bit. Lindsey got off work at 1 and we discussed even further about our hardwood floor plans. It seems I was a little confused by the laminate talks. But maybe we’ll find something worthwhile maybe not. To Be Continued…

Today was also a day for the hair salon. I was thankful to have a full book. One thing that is always true: cutting hair never gets old to me. Sometimes it’s the only thing I do that makes sense. I have been cutting hair for close to 14 years now. Crazy when I think about it.

Church later on was good. Bro. Dan preached on “Continuing on.” A message I needed to hear for many reasons.

After a week hiatus, tomorrow marks the return to the Fire Department. Looking forward to getting back and seeing everyone.

Later.