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This week was a cold one in Jacksonville.
One of my bigger accomplishments for this week was getting my root canal completed. It's apparently been 7 weeks since they started my root canal and I was supposed to return after two weeks to complete it.
In that time
1) I went to Oklahoma for my brother-in-law's graduation from pilot school
2) Thanksgiving
3) Finals for the three classes I took last sem
4) Pre Christmas preparation
5) Christmas
6) New Years
It's been a busy time with a lot of holidays and even some traveling. After finals, I started to do a truck ton of overtime again, since I've missed out a ton of OT this last semester and we haven't been able to save as much as I would've liked.
At work a few shift changes happened. We lost a few good friends such as Brian and Candace to red alpha and red mids, but we also got the Hurstons couple onto our shift blue mids. I moved to a new dispatch trainer Amber, but there's been a crazy plague in the comm center and everyone is calling out sick with the cold. So, I've only sat with Amber one of the 4 days last week where we were supposed to train. Needless to say, I got a lot of time in receiving answering the phones and I watched a full season of The Office in the meantime, between calls of course. I still somehow managed to have one of the highest weekly stats of my entire shift. That's always a morale boost when stats are pulled to encourage the ones taking less calls to pick up the slack, and to see I'm one of the few in the week who hasn't dropped below fair share, which is basically a bar of excellence. And I somehow managed to watch 22 episodes of the Office as well on that same company time. I think when I have a side show playing, I'm more inclined to answer promptly to make up for the fun I have in between calls... I stay in a relatively good mood, sometimes smiling and coming out of a chuckle when answering a life saving emergency call.
This week one of the Safetouch operators made a scene on the phone when one operator was relaying alarm information to me, then midway through the call the other operator asked who the police dispatcher was and insisted on finishing the call because the operator enjoys relaying alarm calls to JSO, probably as much as many JSO dispatchers enjoy receiving alarm calls from alarm companies. It's an interesting symbiotic relationship. Many receivers enjoy taking alarm calls because there is no drama or stress, just collection of information, which is how most calls should be. I think some of them enjoy talking to dispatchers for similar reasons, instead of talking to frantic alarmed customers screaming over a two way speaker in their home when they think they're getting burglarized, they talk to a relaxed dispatcher, who is just trying to get all the required information in under 43-47 seconds... at least that's what I do.
Other than that, I've been staying strong on my rice free fast junk food free diet. I found a few alternatives. Instead of getting a subway sandwich or a Mcdonald's burger if I'm out late (3am-5am) after a workout at the gym and there's no food at home, I'll stop by Waffle House and get either a Grilled Chicken Salad or a Two Egg Breakfast with wheat toast and hash browns if they're out of salad mix. Of course I bring my own water.
I've been battling a cold and just downing a lot of cough drops and dayquil/nyquil. Trying to sleep the full 8 hours a night, and as always stay hydrated with water only.
The highest and most senior leader of the LDS church, President Thomas S. Monson passed away this week, to be reunited with his sweet and dear wife, who passed years ago. That's huge news within the church, and is something for me to grieve personally.
I'll end this week's post with a quote that was often used by a former LDS mission president of the Alabama Birmingham Mission Pres Hanks, unknown the original speaker; "Serving Softens Stoney Souls." Though my job answering 911 and dispatching police is public service in nature, and though I often do overtime on all my time off, during the few hours that I do have to myself, I still strive to find ways to serve others, so that they might have their hearts always open to goodness. May your heart also be always open to goodness. To receive, to share, and to be filled by, to add to, and to become: goodness.
One of my bigger accomplishments for this week was getting my root canal completed. It's apparently been 7 weeks since they started my root canal and I was supposed to return after two weeks to complete it.
In that time
1) I went to Oklahoma for my brother-in-law's graduation from pilot school
2) Thanksgiving
3) Finals for the three classes I took last sem
4) Pre Christmas preparation
5) Christmas
6) New Years
It's been a busy time with a lot of holidays and even some traveling. After finals, I started to do a truck ton of overtime again, since I've missed out a ton of OT this last semester and we haven't been able to save as much as I would've liked.
At work a few shift changes happened. We lost a few good friends such as Brian and Candace to red alpha and red mids, but we also got the Hurstons couple onto our shift blue mids. I moved to a new dispatch trainer Amber, but there's been a crazy plague in the comm center and everyone is calling out sick with the cold. So, I've only sat with Amber one of the 4 days last week where we were supposed to train. Needless to say, I got a lot of time in receiving answering the phones and I watched a full season of The Office in the meantime, between calls of course. I still somehow managed to have one of the highest weekly stats of my entire shift. That's always a morale boost when stats are pulled to encourage the ones taking less calls to pick up the slack, and to see I'm one of the few in the week who hasn't dropped below fair share, which is basically a bar of excellence. And I somehow managed to watch 22 episodes of the Office as well on that same company time. I think when I have a side show playing, I'm more inclined to answer promptly to make up for the fun I have in between calls... I stay in a relatively good mood, sometimes smiling and coming out of a chuckle when answering a life saving emergency call.
This week one of the Safetouch operators made a scene on the phone when one operator was relaying alarm information to me, then midway through the call the other operator asked who the police dispatcher was and insisted on finishing the call because the operator enjoys relaying alarm calls to JSO, probably as much as many JSO dispatchers enjoy receiving alarm calls from alarm companies. It's an interesting symbiotic relationship. Many receivers enjoy taking alarm calls because there is no drama or stress, just collection of information, which is how most calls should be. I think some of them enjoy talking to dispatchers for similar reasons, instead of talking to frantic alarmed customers screaming over a two way speaker in their home when they think they're getting burglarized, they talk to a relaxed dispatcher, who is just trying to get all the required information in under 43-47 seconds... at least that's what I do.
Other than that, I've been staying strong on my rice free fast junk food free diet. I found a few alternatives. Instead of getting a subway sandwich or a Mcdonald's burger if I'm out late (3am-5am) after a workout at the gym and there's no food at home, I'll stop by Waffle House and get either a Grilled Chicken Salad or a Two Egg Breakfast with wheat toast and hash browns if they're out of salad mix. Of course I bring my own water.
I've been battling a cold and just downing a lot of cough drops and dayquil/nyquil. Trying to sleep the full 8 hours a night, and as always stay hydrated with water only.
The highest and most senior leader of the LDS church, President Thomas S. Monson passed away this week, to be reunited with his sweet and dear wife, who passed years ago. That's huge news within the church, and is something for me to grieve personally.
I'll end this week's post with a quote that was often used by a former LDS mission president of the Alabama Birmingham Mission Pres Hanks, unknown the original speaker; "Serving Softens Stoney Souls." Though my job answering 911 and dispatching police is public service in nature, and though I often do overtime on all my time off, during the few hours that I do have to myself, I still strive to find ways to serve others, so that they might have their hearts always open to goodness. May your heart also be always open to goodness. To receive, to share, and to be filled by, to add to, and to become: goodness.
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