Everything I learned at CERT, I already knew from running conventions...

[kyburg]

I'm beginning to think I should shop myself around -

Then again, the last three conventions I worked? Nobody wanted to even know I had a first-aid card, let alone training. The liability, y'see. The insurance won't cover us if they know we have someone first-aid trained! (Swear it. I also believe it.)

I've been called cheerful - yes, cheerful - today. And "on it" - and lots of other nice little "pet me, ooh that feels nice" compliments.

By firemen. I adore fireman, if you haven't guessed. I did marry one. (Albeit a reluctant one, it does leave marks - Jim was a fireman in England for the Air Force back in the eighties.)

I promise, I will post a picture of me in CERT gear. You can use to kill rats/die laughing. Dorky doesn't begin to describe it.

And first-aid instruction officially puts me to sleep now. Pictures and all. Cue the gallows humor.

Comments

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I have a big soft spot for firefighters myself. If I signed up today, I'd be third-generation firefighter of this last name in SF - makes me wish I could ever have passed the physical. A friend of mine's a wildland firefighter training to be a smokejumper and an RN - I'm his biggest cheerleader.

You might enjoy the San Francisco Firemens Cookbook, if you ever run across a copy. They scaled down the recipes a little; they mostly serve about eight people instead of 20 hungry firemen. But they scale up again just fine, and are great ways to feed lots of people on the cheap. (My grandpa has two soup recipes in there.)

Keep posting about the CERT stuff. It's acting as a good mental nag for me to try to get to around to taking the firehouse earthqwuake safety community course, whatever that's called, and to check on my first responder cert so I know when it expires so I can keep that intact. I htink I still have enough brain for those, and it makes me feel a little more like a useful part of the community. (Plus I'm sure me and the wheelchair can be a useful object lesson in the classes. Heh.)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I'm almost certain they'd have CERT where you are - ask.

And I'll ask at that used book store in Pasadena - she does NOTHING but cookbooks - about that one.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

It turns up on Ebay frequently, too.

I thought you might need to be able-bodied (and -brained) to do CERT. Then again, I think I could still help run a convention...

I need to...

[n6vfp.livejournal.com]

I need to get you those morse code tapes, even though you could get a ham license with it. Still pursuing that?

Re: I need to...

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

It's not the code that worries me - it's the actual tech content, which I have NO study materials for. (There are websites with practice tests, but I really don't want to learn the material that way - )

I actually have some practice code disks for the computer - but I really want some book learning on the tech stuff. (I can never remember the frequency ranges, for example.)

Got something for that?