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Some life experiences as told by a firefighter/hobbyist programmeowr.
November 14, 2005
Hey guys, I'm still around.
I recently started a myspace account here, so feel free to drop by.
--> I got the job. I am now a paid-on-call firefighter for Holtville, California. I also passed the written exam for full-time firefighter, though I don't expect to have that position for some time. …
I recently started a myspace account here, so feel free to drop by.
--> I got the job. I am now a paid-on-call firefighter for Holtville, California. I also passed the written exam for full-time firefighter, though I don't expect to have that position for some time. …
November 09, 2005
Well, my subscription runs out next Friday, and I won't renew it until much later on, so this'll be it for a while. Oh well.
Aside from that, the end of my semester is, what, a month away now? Finals are coming up in the next several weeks, so it's time to study.
I'm also being hired at one of the …
Aside from that, the end of my semester is, what, a month away now? Finals are coming up in the next several weeks, so it's time to study.
I'm also being hired at one of the …
October 27, 2005
Well, I've completed my only 6-week class of this semester: Hazardous Materials for First Responders. It was a weekly class that would go for 5 hours at a time. It wasn't really hard, but it took a good bit of studying to pass the tests. We had to learn how to recognize the presence of haz-mat/…
October 02, 2005
A strike team was sent from my department to the wild fire around LA last Wednesday. From the news this morning, it seems the fire is getting under control, so they should be back by tomorrow or Tuesday, if they're not already. I was called in at 0400 last Thursday to fill in as a volunteer, and …
September 23, 2005
Well, I was cut from my old position because of conflicts with my school schedule. I was in the receiving dock at a department store, but now I'm just "on-call." That means I don't have a schedule, but they'll call me into work if someone is sick. I might keep it for a few extra bucks now and th…
September 20, 2005
I went ahead and added a mugshot to my webspace, and posted it in this thread. Here it is again:
Regarding my blocks game, my schedule didn't allow for it yesterday, so I didn't get any coding done. I think I'll follow a process over the next week to finish it, following methods from Game Architec…
Regarding my blocks game, my schedule didn't allow for it yesterday, so I didn't get any coding done. I think I'll follow a process over the next week to finish it, following methods from Game Architec…
September 16, 2005
Wow, MS really laid it down when they made all this. I am thoroughly enjoying C#! [smile]
Okay, SDL.Net is all up an running, and it's just great. Rob Loach and jendave have been of huge help over on the SDL.Net forums, so here's a shout out to them.
What I really love is VS's code exploration, whi…
Okay, SDL.Net is all up an running, and it's just great. Rob Loach and jendave have been of huge help over on the SDL.Net forums, so here's a shout out to them.
What I really love is VS's code exploration, whi…
September 12, 2005
Okay, some cheery news now. I started on C# today after using C for several years. I like it so far, but as I expected, I really need to upgrade this computer now. I'm short on memory by today's standards (though 128MB still sounds like a lot to me) and it's easy for the whole system to crawl wh…
September 10, 2005
I was chatting on #gamedev when I got the phone call from my dad, who's in the hospital. His cancer is terminal; the doctors have said he has three months to live. He wanted me to know that he's very proud, and that it's made him very happy to see the progress I've made as a person.
He says that i…
He says that i…
September 08, 2005
About a month or two ago, Dad went to the hospital again with severe stomach pains. This was a few months after his as yet unexplained episode with anemia. They knew his blood count was incredibly low, but they couldn't explain where it had went because he wasn't bleeding out.
Adenocarcinoma. Tha…
Adenocarcinoma. Tha…
September 06, 2005
I responded to my first fire yesterday (September 5, 2005). It was just a little smoldering brush fire. My partner and I put it out by spreading the dry, smoking brush out horizontally and covering some of it with dirt. You spread it out horizontally because fire burns upward, vertically, and th…
April 16, 2005
I've decided that I do not want to be a programmer by profession, nor am I interested in any IT-related fields. Hence, while I've made a lot of friends here (and I mean that; you guys are generally really cool), I don't feel that my presence here is the best use of my time.
I wish everyone here the…
I wish everyone here the…
March 31, 2005
My father, Larry Dennis Heath, is going to the hospital at the time of this writing. They'll probably keep him there for some time, so he will not be coming home tonight. We found out yesterday that, in all likelihood, my dad is diabetic. His blood count is also very low, and he may be anemic. …
January 31, 2005
At present, I'm working at Home Depot. I do not wish to continue with the company, but I respect the training that I have received from them. For one thing, I'm a certified forklift driver at my store (and that's what I really enjoy doing). So I'm there loading pallets of building materials onto…
January 23, 2005
I have two living brothers, one sister, and one first-born brother who was born with a birth defect and died shortly afterward. I'm the youngest, and that's why my parents called me Benjamin. (It means "son of fortune", and Benjamin was Jacob/Israel's youngest son. His offspring, the Benjamites,…
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