52 Things I've Learned
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Loopy
Mar
16
Loopy
Something’s been bugging me, so I did some spelunking.  Not the traditional caving, because confined spaces and bats creep me out and I can never remember which ones are stalactites and which ones are stalagmites.   If spelunking is, “exploring wild, non-commercial caves, often involving...
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IDLH
Mar
10
IDLH
The Chief asks a question as we pass in the yard on his way to the house.  I take the question to be rhetorical in nature but, just to be sure, I give him my best “I dunno” look.  Not a great look, for a quite excellent question – how was there fire on both floors?   There’s a longer answer above...
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Ink
Feb
05
Ink
I don’t hunt. I don’t have a pickup truck. I don’t have a mustache. I don’t have a tattoo.  Or several.    How I am a Wisconsin firefighter is anyone’s guess.   Some of my failures to conform are philosophical.  Some practical.  Some merely convenience.    Because I was put on Team Mammal,...
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