Week 8

Over the half way mark!!!  There wasn't much new to last week, I did pass my state firearms test and my national night firearms test (shooting in the dark with police lights flashing).  It almost puts you into a seizure.  The weekend I had 8-5 classes both days but I still have a lot of energy left in me.  Today we took a test on 2 weeks of information and I think I nailed it.  That was a lot of stress off my shoulders.  I have also finished all my readings and HW for this week.  I needed all that out of my way because I HAVE to pass national daytime firearms on Thurs or Friday to graduate as well as I have to pass about 45 different Defensive Tactic moves on Thursday.  I am confident I can pass these but that doesn't less'n the pressure any. As I said though not much to tell you about last week.  Half of all the cadets were sick and the commander got pneumonia.  I have maintained my health (knock on wood)!

I do miss Janelle, I am going home this weekend to have a 3 in 1 birthday celebration for my mom, dad and I.  That should be fun, I will also spend all of Sunday at the fire station going on medic rides and working with patients. Should be interesting!  Mostly I am looking forward to being with Janelle and family.  I miss you all. 

Mom and Dad Johnson thank you for the valentines day package, those cookies were great!!

God Bless All!

Week 7

Well week 7 went extremely slow due to not getting any days off to separate it from week 6.  My friend Sara has renamed days to leading up to the weekend, so this last week went Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday1, Wednesday2, Wednesday3.........Wednesday9, Thursday, Friday then the weekend. Anyways week7 was 16 hours of arrest, search and seizure, plus Radio 2, Gang awareness G and Rules of Evidence.  In Defensive tactics we got to start throwing punches and pulling hair.  There is nothing more awkward then practicing pulling hair of women while throwing them to the ground. During Firearms I got to lay in the mud on my side while shooting at the target, very cool!!

One of the highlights of the week was Janelle setting up a surprise birthday party for me and Sara (hers is the 10th) with Alec and Sara (my 2 closest friends in the academy).  We had a Salmon dinner at Alec's place with good beer (thanks Alec). We also watched the movie "the Guardian", good movie.  Janelle got me a nice outdoor rough and tough watch. 

This last weekend Janelle and I drove to a cabin out in Glacier (thank you Rob) and spent Saturday night through Monday there.  We played scrabble, watched movies, cooked meals together, went hiking, played raquetball, played ping pong and over-all just hung out!  It was so refreshing and nice to spend so much quality time with her.  I miss her already.  I have another 12 straight days of 8-5 class in front of me with a few night classes.  I do miss having a life.  I haven't gotten to fly-fish, scuba dive or play soccer since December.  Things are well and I am learning really cool important stuff.  Please feel free to give me a call or email, its great to hear from all of you!  Much Love to you all!

Week 6

Week 6 is connected to week 7 because there was no weekend.  Hmmm lets see, last week we qualified for shotgun.  We shot buck shots and slug shots.  Pretty Cool!  I was amazed at how easy it was to aim.  I plugged the bulls-eye with all my shots, though the first shot I learned never to put my trigger hand thumb over the gun.  I punched myself on the nose on the kick-back, it hurt! :)  During defensive tactics we got to start using the hand-cuffs, so now everyone in the class has black and blue wrists.  Nothing like being cuffed 30-40 times in a day.  Every once in awhile your partner would hit you right on the wrist bone with the metal cuff and it would sting like crazy! Sunday I passed my Wildland Fire 190 certification now I need to pass my 130.  Things are moving along, though I have been pretty exhausted lately.

Janelle my sweet sweet loving wife came and visited me even though I would have classes 8-5pm through the weekend.  We had a nice Italian Dinner Saturday night, Saturday day she came to the last 4 hours of EMT-B training and took a combitube certification course and did just as well as all of us who have been trained on it recently.  She is so smart!  You all should of seen how beet red she turned when the instructor announced her and her testing ability in the class.  It was nice to have her meet more of my cadet friends.  We had a 6:30 am Denny's breakfast/study session before I went to take a test and she drove home.  She definitely provided me with extra energy (atleast mentally) for this week.  I am excited to spend Sunday Monday with her this week in a cabin in the N. Cascades.

I haven't landed a L.E Park Job yet but there is a lot of opportunity out there.  Keep praying! I miss you all and apologize that I have become such a stranger to most of you recently!

Break Time is over I need to read 2 chapters of EMT before a 14 hour day tomorrow.

~God Bless!

Happy 69th Birthday Dad!

Dad, I hope your day was wonderful.  I hope I can be as youthful as you are at 69!  You carry it well!  Happy Birthday!!

Week 5

Well week 5 was filled with Criminal Law, 16 hours of lecture on it plus 4 hours on Environmental Crimes and 4 hours on Natural Resource Law and Protection Strategies.  That sums up Monday through Wednesday.  On Thursday and Friday things picked up.  We went to the shooting range and I was able to fire a hand gun for the first time.  I wasn't a bad shot and I enjoy shooting.  We practice drawing to fire, speed, accuracy and magazine exchanges.  Right now our range we practice from is from 3 yards to 7 yards, pretty close next week we will be shooting long distances.  The other class we had Thursday and Friday was Defensive Tactics, which I think stands for let the instructor beat the crap out of you in front of the class.  We only had a few concussions and we all felt whip-lash Friday and Saturday.  It was cool learning the different moves and tossing your buddies around. EMT-B training is going well, we get to start working at the hospital and start riding on EMT calls with hands on! Cool.

The weekend was studying and the SuperBowl, WOW what a game!  My new friends saw a different side of me that most of you already know.  Man I think I aged 10 years during that 4th quarter.  I didnt get to see Janelle, she is going to come up for awhile next weekend. 

I just finished my test and I have no idea how I did, I am sure I passed but ....  Today is the first day of 13 days straight of 8-5pm including Sunday, it will be a long 2 weeks!

I hope everyone is well, don't forget to call me and leave me a message!!