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By Fireman Chris, October 31, 2008 9:18 PM

Figured I’d better get in another post before October ended so that my last post wasn’t the only one for this month. It will be a short post though, because it’s hard to type one-handed

No, I’m not wanking off. I broke my wrist at work today. Wish I could say it was doing something exciting, but no…I stumbled getting off the fire engine in front of the station (embarrassing, I know). At least there were some extenuating circumstances (rain, wearing turnout gear from a call), but it’s still a stupid way to get hurt.

My luck’s not been great lately. During October, I’ve been in two (minor) vehicle accidents: hit a deer in my own truck, and got rear-ended in a fire department truck. Now a broken wrist. Probably one of the reasons I’ve not felt like blogging much this month.

I think I’m relieved my two upcoming airplane flights are both in November.

At least one humorous moment came out of my injury today.

When I first fell, my wrist hurt, but not badly. I iced it, and figured it was just a sprain. As the day went on, however, it got more sore, stiff and swollen, so I decided to get it looked at (with some brotherly nudging by my fellow EMTs and paramedics at work).

When the clinic doc examined me, pressing on the swollen tissue and bone, she said I didn’t seem to have any pain from the bone, so was probably only a sprain. Still, she ordered an x-ray to be sure.

I think she was as surprised as I was when radiology decided I not only had a fracture, but might need to have it pinned.

Her response to me was “You must have a very high pain tolerance.” I inwardly chuckled, thinking of a few friends who are well aware of that.

And don’t worry…it’s my left wrist, so Sparkle’s bottom won’t go unattended to (at least until I fly down to LA tomorrow).

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By Fireman Chris, October 2, 2008 5:59 PM

I was going to say that I don’t usually do politics on this blog, but this isn’t really about politics…its about a lot more than that. And you can thank my wife for giving me the motivation to write this (if you haven’t looked at her blog, go check out her most recent post and be sure to watch the video).

Just a little over a month from today, we in the U.S. have the chance…no, the responsibility, to vote for the next President of this country.

Voting is always important, and voting in this coming election is especially so given the number of issues that are facing our country right now. I don’t think I need to go into that further…unless you’ve been hiding in a box for the past decade, you know what those issues are.

It’s a historic election aside from all of that. Come November 4, we elect either the first African-American President or the first female Vice-President. Yes, it shouldn’t matter what race, ethnicity, gender you are, but it doesn’t change the fact that since 1789, when George Washington took the oath of office, every
U.S. President has been a white male.

I know how I’m voting, and you can probably guess how. I can’t say I don’t care who you vote for because I really do, but the fact of the matter is, it’s your choice and regardless of who you favor, you need to go make that choice heard. And if you haven’t registered to vote yet, go to Declare Yourself and do it now!

So save your arguments about the electoral college, “hanging chads” or any of that and get out there and vote.

And in case you’re wondering, that’s Jessica Alba in the picture above.