So it’s been about two months now.  Things are going great.  I’ve been having a blast.  Have to draw my gun almost daily (normally to clear a building or house).  Get to run code almost daily (full lights and sirens).  Everyone I’ve worked with has been amazing.  I’ve quit posting weekly because, well, I am just tired and like to turn police mode off when I am not on duty.  So I’ll tell a few stories as they come up.  Just won’t be as often as before. 

    The first thing is an announcement.  I have been switched to evening watch as of tomorrow.  I have about two or three weeks left on FTO because they want me on evening watch, so they want me to do a few weeks FTO on that watch so I am familiar with how things go.  Big difference there.  Day watch was like the easy setting, morning watch would be medium, and evening watch is hard.  I’m told a lot of the guys on evening watch don’t get along too.  So this could be a real buzz killer.  Guess I’ll find out this week.

    I finally got my own car too.  I spent all day Friday getting it equipped the way I want, getting it all ready, etc.  It’s an old piece of shit.  But not the worst in the fleet.  It was the Sgt.’s old car so it has a few bells and whistles that other’s don’t have.

    And last but not least, if you are wondering about the pictures in this post (yes I blanked out the words and numbers on my car).  I had my first "power lines down" call the other day.  And sure as shit, there were down power lines.  I had to block off the road while the crew came to fix it.  A tree had fallen on someone’s house.  No storm or anything.  It was actually a nice day.  It fell down, almost hitting the people outside.  But it landed on the powerlines, ripping it from the pole on both ends.