Whoa! Fasten your seatbelt, the first post! 10/9/08

Aloha! Does that give away where I live? I have had the good fortune to have been born in Paradise. In addition I was born loving horses! Now over the years (30+) the horses are in full control of my life. I don't own horse's, they own me!! I work as a Paramedic (28 years) to provide for them. It's a great life. Horses to the max 5 days a week and lights and siren entertainment 2 days a week. What more could a person want?
I am at work now. My home away from home. This time of the year is normally a slow season but with the financial woes and billions in tax payers bailouts, there are not too many tourists flying to Hawaii. Money is tight for the normal person, unless your a AIG employee having a spa retreat to the tune of $440,000 after your company has just been bailed out. Hawaii needs tourists, we are almost 80% tourist based economy. Come to Hawaii! Empty white sand beaches. Empty shopping malls with 50% sales!
I work 48 hours straight and then have 4 days off. The only call we had yesterday was a tourist verse a ceiling fan. Watch out for those blades. You know, remember when your mom would yell at you not to bounce up and down on the bed. Well when your in your 40's don't bounce up and down on the bed, your taller now! Alcohol may make you feel like you can fly but look up first. Also make sure your not any higher than the first floor so you don't bounce into a window and really fly out. Geeze I still remember when I did that. I was 7-8 years old visiting my Granddad who lived in a high rise in Waikiki. We kids were bouncing on his king size bed when I flew full body into the open screened window. Thank God the screen held or it would have been a free fall of 6 stories. We all immediately stopped jumping on the bed realising right then it was not the same as jumping out of the plumeria tree yelling rip cord! with our capes on.
Other than that I made my famous crock pot chili yesterday and two batches of pancakes. beeep, beeep, beeep Just went on a call and hit the Publish Post as the alarm went off. Now I'm back.
Did you know elevators can call 911? That was a first for me. A few months ago a car called 911 giving the street location via GPS. Sure enough it was a car into telephone pole with "On Star" making the call. For today's call both elevators at the complex were working and nobody was trapped. I was asking dispatch if they had a call back number. No, the call was made by the elevator. Ah! I wanted to ask if the elevator had a deep voice like Darth Vador. May be they are cousins. "Hello this is Otis El Vator calling. I'm stuck. Send police, fire and medics."