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speak with him during the event and he was very gracious well spoken clearly sharp and down to earth i was surprised at the last of those traits but it was a pleasant surprise and i shouldn t have been surprised at that after all he is a marine and i don t know any marines who aren t earthy in their speech i expect throughout the rest of my life to encounter all sorts of different people as far as i m concerned that s the way it should be question of the day april 3 2023 walt trachim dailyprompt dailyprompt 1884 leave a comment what do you wish you could do more every day a tough question to answer because there are things i would prefer doing on any given day two hobbies i have that i don t get to do enough of are to most people a bit unusual one of them is working with software defined radios mainly to use them as receivers for a couple of different applications one is tracking aircraft traffic at our local regional airport the other is as a shortwave and ham radio receiver as it turns out with some of the weird new england weather we ve had my mast took damage enough in fact that i m planning to replace the existing mast with a j style so that i can attach and secure the four antennas that i am currently using i m also considering moving everything i have set up to a slightly different location in my house to optimize reception we ll see if that works the other is music i am a vocal performer with an area choral organization near where i live i m also a long standing trumpet player i ve been playing off and on since i was a kid and for a while as a young man i was a professional musician i still love it but i don t get to play nearly as often as i d like or as i should i own two b flat trumpets both excellent instruments neither used as often as they could or should be maybe i can work on that one thing that isn t really a hobby but is an important chore is yard work because the house my wife and i own is part of a homeowner s association hoa we pay for certain services like trash collection snow removal and landscaping however we will not allow landscapers to work on our back yard because of our dogs and the amount of time they spend back there we don t want them to get hurt in the event they were to ingest fertilizer so we take care of the back ourselves for the most part the only things we won t do are to remove leaves in the fall and mulch the property line in the spring that said it s coming into the time of year to do outdoor spring cleaning that will be happening soon this is where i am it is a thought provoking question and i m sure i will continue to find activities that i wish i could do more often maybe i ll write about those as well question of the day reviews recent books march 24 2023 walt trachim leave a comment technically it s one book that i recently read not an especially long read but a hard one in many ways the title where you ll find me published in 2015 is an account of the rescue attempt of a hiker named kate matrasova a new york city based hiker who was attempting to traverse five peaks in new hampshire s presidential range by all accounts she was a physically fit experienced hiker who had been to a number of different places worldwide where the hiking challenges were brutal unfortunately her talent and experience didn t account for the challenge of these mountains the presidential range is notorious not necessarily because of the climbing new hampshire is the home 48 mountains where the summits are 4 000 feet high at a minimum but because of the weather one of the mountains in the middle of the range is mount washington at a height of 6 288 feet it is the tallest mountain in the northeastern united states while it is not near the height of mount rainier or mckinley denali it has some of the fiercest weather world wide high winds and cold temperatures are not unheard of in summer and a regular occurrence in winter her hike was intended to be a fourteen hour trek she had researched the route the weather conditions and what she would need for gear she also had selected six bailout locations where she could get below the tree line if she got into trouble the distance wasn t exceptionally long but the weather conditions would turn out to be a factor in her failure and ultimately her death off of the star lake trail on mount adams ty gagne the author of this memoir did a really good job of recounting the efforts of the rescuers as well as following what was believed to be her hiking route to where she ended up off of the trail exposed to the weather unable to make her way to the tree line he described the process of hypothermia from mild to severe and how it affects the human body he also recounted what was found near her and what was not including food frozen water bottles and the communications equipment she brought with her it is a really good study about risk and the decisions people make under potentially arduous conditions and it is well written gagne does a noteworthy job with his narrative probably the hardest part of the memoir is reading the account rooting for her and knowing what the result will be that was like a gut punch with that said i would high recommend it just the same as i write this post i am listening to it again as an audiobook i fully expect to pick some of what i likely missed in my initial reading reviews recent books multitasking march 21 2023 walt trachim leave a comment this is something i don t do especially well especially lately for some reason part of the reason has to do with the workload there is a lot happening with my full time employer in terms of events and operational stuff in addition i have a couple of side gigs that i am pretty busy with also the other reason is that i deal attention deficit hyperactivity disorder better known as adhd that affects how i function medication helps but not always i shouldn t be this busy i m an old guy but it s keeping my reasonably young so i shouldn t complain yesterday i sat in remotely on a meeting of the operations staff where i work i m fortunate that i don t have to participate directly unless there is a need for me to contribute most of what is discussed are upcoming events over a two week period nothing that is earth shattering but it is good to know what is happening in our areas of responsibility as i said i have multiple employers my main employer where i work full time is a state agency that is responsible for the ems and trauma systems in the state where i live my two part time jobs are with an organization that provides ems education services and the other is privately owned ambulance company that has municipal contracts in the merrimack valley area of massachusetts and southern new hampshire juggling those can be hard sometimes but i like all of the places where i work and i m able to make a reasonably decent living in any case it s time for me to go back to stumbling through multiple work items it has taken me two days to write this post but at least i got through it in the midst of working on other things maybe i can multitask after all i ll have to try this again on another day multitasking returning from a long hiatus march 3 2023 walt trachim musings travel writing leave a comment it has been a long time since i ve done any writing to speak of years in fact i think part of the reason is that i simply wasn t inspired to do any for quite a while not writing i think was a mistake there has been quite a bit of water that has flowed over the proverbial dam over the past few years for whatever reason my creative juices have started to flow again and i ve decided to pick this back up i think one of the things that caused this and it was actually a little bit strange when this happened but i don t question things i have no control over was that i inadvertently opened the wordpress app on my smartphone and was prompted to transition to jetpack for grins i did when i opened it up i discovered it has a lot of really good features more than the original wordpress app my initial post using this app was done on my phone and i decided to download it onto my ipad as well since i have a bluetooth keyboard i find it is easier to work on this what i m working on as i write now than the phone and i can actually type faster so this post is coming courtesy of a larger screen and a quasi mechanical keyboard one thing to mention is that my wife and i are traveling so this is a partial travelogue post among other things we were invited to the wedding of a family member our nephew who lives in central california i am actually writing this post from the hotel del monte located on the campus of the naval postgraduate school in monterey california i had never been here but i m glad we came the hotel itself has a rich history it has been moved a couple of times to where it is now and the current building has had to be rebuilt from the ground up twice it is a beautiful setting and the campus is both much smaller than i initially expected and it is a typical military installation in that it follows protocols i know from when i served in the marine corps that at least was some familiarity that i found some comfort in we are staying in a room which is actually a small suite it consists of a bedroom a kitchenette a sitting area and a bathroom which is actually in two parts the toilet and bathtub shower are in their own little room and the bathroom sink in a space outside of this little room the kitchenette is surprisingly outfitted really well it includes a sink a refrigerator two burner induction stove and a bunch of kitchen cabinets there is one large closet and four small ones which i can t quite figure out and there are two ceiling fans one in the bedroom and one in the sitting area plus two television sets which i find a little mind blowing all in all it s really quite nice in terms of space it is almost as big as the second floor of my house as i look out the window i am overlooking a couple of small buildings which i suspect are maintenance buildings but i don t know this one consistent thing i have noticed about california every time i ve been out here is the terra cotta roofing it is not nearly as common in the northeast most of the roofing back home is either metal or asphalt shingles i imagine both are effective enough if they re compared to each other but i think it is really a situation of where utility is in the eye of the beholder well this is the second post i ve written today i m actually reasonably surprised that i ve been able to do this and i m pleased with myself one of the things this application allows is to set prompts as to when to post i have set a three day per week prompt and i ll have to see if i can maintain doing that hopefully i can another thing this app asks a question daily and depending on where i am for head space i may try to answer we ll see returning from a long hiatus job satisfaction march 3 2023 walt trachim career dailyprompt 1863 ems leave a comment do you enjoy your job this is always an interesting question the short answer is yes i do enjoy my job and the follow up question is usually why in my case it s pretty easy to answer that i actually work in multiple places all of which are related to emergency medical services i ve had an interesting work life including two different careers prior to ems the first was service in the united states marine corps as an infantry marine and as a musician and the second was in the technology sector primarily doing computer hardware integration writing software and implementing data and voice communication networks working as an ems provider turned out to be what i was called to do however and i have never looked back although skills i ve picked up in my past lives have come in handy from time to time my full time day job is managing and supporting new hampshire s statewide trauma system there are 26 acute care hospitals located in new hampshire of those 11 of them are designated as hospitals situated to provide care to trauma patients technically every acute care hospital has the ability to provide stabilizing care and transfer to a hospital with more resources and the ability to provide definitive care to these patients my job is to support these hospitals whether or not they participate actively as a member of the trauma system i enjoy this for a simple reason the work i do keeps the system functioning properly which is ultimately in the best interests of these patients plus i get to collaborate with people smarter than me and most of the time i get to learn from them my other two gigs also related to ems involve teaching and actually practicing medicine the teaching job is one i ve done for a number of years at this point i believe i m in my fourteenth year i am a credentialed instructor for the american heart association and i teach a number of their courses i also am a skills evaluator for the national registry of emergency medical technicians this gives me the opportunity to evaluate people who have gone through the process of being trained to work as advanced emergency medical technicians and paramedics to ensure they are competent there is also a written examination in addition to the practical skills testing they undergo both are important in the future however this will likely change somewhat the degree of this as of now is not clear finally i still work on the road as a paramedic at 60 years of age i have been doing this for a total of nearly 30 years at every level of licensure with the majority of that time approximately 18 years as a paramedic this is where the rubber meets the road so to speak we see patients who are sometimes in a situation they never expect to find themselves in more often than not it is not nearly as bad as it could be but from time to time it is potentially devastating our job is to provide appropriate medical care and transport to a hospital where proper definitive care can be administered the overwhelming majority i have worked with throughout my career have endeavored to do this and i have been both awed and humbled by them plus i ve learned a lot which i am grateful for this is probably the most important thing about our work and there is a legitimate reason why medicine is practiced every situation is different and what could be considered appropriate care in one may be totally wrong in another it helps to keep this in mind job satisfaction lily june 24 2020 june 24 2020 walt trachim 1 comment to update from the last post i put up we let weezy go on may 22 the veterinarian who took care of her actually came out to our house and she was absolutely wonderful weezy went peacefully and my wife was with her at the time to be honest i m not sure i could have handled having to witness her being put to sleep it was difficult for me to leave to go to work that morning i miss her very much two weeks later however we were made aware of a puppy who had been given up to a shelter in 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