Slacker

I'm a slacker. I haven't posted in who knows how long and I apologize for that, I've been a bit busy. I have the pictures of the yard up on a computer and I'll have them up here in a little bit. We also adopted a new little one. Since Chrissy has decreed she cannot be a princess, our new little one is Duchess Aurora. She's a gray Tabby cat, and she's only about nine weeks old. Probably a bit closer to ten now though.

So my post for the moment...

For those of you who saw on facebook, I did indeed try to make it into Flag PD. And yes, I failed. I wasn't told the test was timed, so I went in having done 50 sit-ups without breaking a sweat the night before, and thirty seconds before the test starts, the officer conducting the test looks at some one from human resources and asks, they only have a minute, right? And the person from human resources says, I think so... and they go back and forth and they settle on that we only have a minute to do our thirty-five sit-ups. That would have been really nice to know, I only missed by two, but I still missed and therefore I failed. I'm now training to test with sheriff's office, which is basically the same job local police have but it's a little more work and quite a bit less pay. I will be privileged with not only the responsibilities of a patrolman, but I'll also get to do interrogations and crime scene investigations (a little more in depth than a cop, but not quite to the same level as a detective).

Unfortunately though, the minimum requirements for SO is a little bit tougher than the PD's. I have to make 38 sit-ups in a minute rather than 35 (not that much tougher), 21 push-ups in a minute instead of 26 (ok.. I confess.. that's a bit easier) and a mile and a half in 12:41 instead of 13:46. As of today I've surpassed the push-up and sit-up requirements but I still have 1 minute and 41 seconds to shave off to make that time. I can do it!