Hey SSRCCPREZ,

Nice to meet you “Bro”, and thanks for the “Welcome”. 10-26, 10-08, feels like home already.

I pay $19.28 a gallon to fly my plane, and did not mind that, $3.11 a gallon to drive there to get it, and I am happy, because “I can just do that”…because, freedom is not free!!!! Heard the other day on the news, CNN, a gallon of gas in Venezuela is 0.19, (that’s 19 cents per gallon); I wonder if that stuff has alcohol and nitro in it, maybe it would work in both my plane and truck? (that was a joke everybody..okay?)

One of my younger FF’ing brothers, just 19, gave me a mug last Christmas, printed on the inside; it reads, “First in, last out Firefighter”. On some days these old bones feel like, “Last in, First out”, and that’s a big joke on me from all of them, but I still pulled the hose, cleaned the trucks, all of us together, shoulder to shoulder doing all that inglorious stuff too, besides I like that adrenalin rush going to a fire, and flying this old plane of mine gives it to me, too... just being a small part, is the joy.

In management it was always like that too, staying later, last one to leave, turn the lights out, drag my butt home, do it all over again, it was lonely and scary, and funny I was an easy target for jokes, and always in the middle of some mess, like, story of my life. But, what the hell, dirty jobs, somebody has to do that, and it’s no big deal, really.

Gzzzzzz….looks like I’ll be responding to, “I joined the AMA today!” all day long, and then some, oh well…. another fire…….hehe

BTW: Tell me what you haven’t forgotten, do I assume 911? ASSUME things, caution somebody said, because when you assume, you could make an “ASS out of U and ME!"

Later dude, fly high, be safe…bud