101/1001 Update
Oct. 8th, 2021 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grim23Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. - Henry David Thoreau
Body/Martial Arts/Physical Improvement/Testing Myself: No progress. I'm recovering from a probable sinus infection. A COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test was negative, however, I'm not going to Base Station, the Fire Station, or the dojo out of an abundance of caution.
Mind/Spirit/Centering/Health: I've finished reading for fun Good Omens, a novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, and I'm starting The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning, Elevate Your Life by Robin S. Sharma. I'm still rereading The Art of War by Sun Tzu from my permanent library. I've sat formal Zazen virtually this week.
New word: Intransigent means "characterized by refusal to compromise or to abandon an extreme position or attitude."
Maintenance/Shit Got To Be Done: The daily driver is still in the shop for a rear seal leak and getting a rack installed on top to increase my carrying capacity. I'll get my COVID-19 booster early next week.
In Case of Zombies/Disaster Preparation: I'm still waiting to see if they open the station to volunteers soon - maybe I'll wait until two weeks after my booster shot. I have completed a third and fourth Critical Care Transport class, Advanced Practice Patient Assessment II, and Respiratory Assessment and Treatment I.
I have also scheduled a three-day Advanced Tactical Casualty Care Course (TC2 In-Person Training) for the end of the month, partially paid as a birthday gift from Faye and The Old Man. This course, "[a] dynamic and practical thirty-hour course covers the evaluation and treatment of the tactical casualty during the Care Under Fire / Direct Threat and Tactical Field Care / Indirect Threat phases. This stand-alone course covers all the materials presented in the Tactical Casualty Care Course and builds upon that with additional hemorrhage control skills, recognition, and management of tension pneumothorax, practical airway devices, additional hands-on skills stations, and much more extensive practical exercises. The entire third day of class is scenario-based with students conducting multiple casualty evaluations in a tactical environment. This class is consistent with current Tactical Combat Casualty Care guidelines as well as the guidelines for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care."
Base Station/Ol' Number 3: My QSL cards for the HAM station have arrived at Base Station, USPS Priority Mail. I'm awaiting three more yards of gravel. I still hope to finish the Pump House and get two coats of paint on the Gate House before the full winter rains come.
Adventure/Doing Stuff: I was going to have a quiet birthday weekend, with an outdoor concert (Kings of Leon), but then the concert was canceled. So, then, Plan B! An epic road trip happened this last weekend - more than a thousand miles, a little over 48 hours, and 25 geocaches (including three on Oregon's oldest 50 remaining geocaches list, and a third of the total caches we found placed before 2003). We stopped in Umatilla and Helix so I could find the last two geocaches to complete the A-Z Oregon Cities Challenge, car camping at Battle Mountain State Park Friday night. On Saturday, we found our first Oregon Oldie then we spent a day in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument Park (getting our Junior Ranger Badges), toured a roadside attraction in Dayville, and car camped in Christmas Valley Saturday night near the second Oldie to get the second cache in an obsidian field Sunday morning - and then on the third Oregon Oldie in the lava beds near Fort Rock on Sunday afternoon before grabbing some birthday barbeque in Bend on the way back to Portland.
Body/Martial Arts/Physical Improvement/Testing Myself: No progress. I'm recovering from a probable sinus infection. A COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test was negative, however, I'm not going to Base Station, the Fire Station, or the dojo out of an abundance of caution.
Mind/Spirit/Centering/Health: I've finished reading for fun Good Omens, a novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, and I'm starting The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning, Elevate Your Life by Robin S. Sharma. I'm still rereading The Art of War by Sun Tzu from my permanent library. I've sat formal Zazen virtually this week.
New word: Intransigent means "characterized by refusal to compromise or to abandon an extreme position or attitude."
Maintenance/Shit Got To Be Done: The daily driver is still in the shop for a rear seal leak and getting a rack installed on top to increase my carrying capacity. I'll get my COVID-19 booster early next week.
In Case of Zombies/Disaster Preparation: I'm still waiting to see if they open the station to volunteers soon - maybe I'll wait until two weeks after my booster shot. I have completed a third and fourth Critical Care Transport class, Advanced Practice Patient Assessment II, and Respiratory Assessment and Treatment I.
I have also scheduled a three-day Advanced Tactical Casualty Care Course (TC2 In-Person Training) for the end of the month, partially paid as a birthday gift from Faye and The Old Man. This course, "[a] dynamic and practical thirty-hour course covers the evaluation and treatment of the tactical casualty during the Care Under Fire / Direct Threat and Tactical Field Care / Indirect Threat phases. This stand-alone course covers all the materials presented in the Tactical Casualty Care Course and builds upon that with additional hemorrhage control skills, recognition, and management of tension pneumothorax, practical airway devices, additional hands-on skills stations, and much more extensive practical exercises. The entire third day of class is scenario-based with students conducting multiple casualty evaluations in a tactical environment. This class is consistent with current Tactical Combat Casualty Care guidelines as well as the guidelines for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care."
Base Station/Ol' Number 3: My QSL cards for the HAM station have arrived at Base Station, USPS Priority Mail. I'm awaiting three more yards of gravel. I still hope to finish the Pump House and get two coats of paint on the Gate House before the full winter rains come.
Adventure/Doing Stuff: I was going to have a quiet birthday weekend, with an outdoor concert (Kings of Leon), but then the concert was canceled. So, then, Plan B! An epic road trip happened this last weekend - more than a thousand miles, a little over 48 hours, and 25 geocaches (including three on Oregon's oldest 50 remaining geocaches list, and a third of the total caches we found placed before 2003). We stopped in Umatilla and Helix so I could find the last two geocaches to complete the A-Z Oregon Cities Challenge, car camping at Battle Mountain State Park Friday night. On Saturday, we found our first Oregon Oldie then we spent a day in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument Park (getting our Junior Ranger Badges), toured a roadside attraction in Dayville, and car camped in Christmas Valley Saturday night near the second Oldie to get the second cache in an obsidian field Sunday morning - and then on the third Oregon Oldie in the lava beds near Fort Rock on Sunday afternoon before grabbing some birthday barbeque in Bend on the way back to Portland.
