It is beginning to look a lot….and feel a lot like Christmas. The closer it gets to Christmas, the less personnel we have in our office. Most of the management in our division are off this week and aren’t due back until next week, or after the first of the year. Tomorrow will be a skeleton crew day. We will be short one clerk and three dispatchers. Our mid-shift dispatcher is working the day shift, which leaves no one to assist the night shift person. I have already decided to go ahead and plan on staying until 8 pm to assist our night dispatcher. I am off work Thursday, but work Friday (Christmas Eve). It doesn’t bother me because it is all overtime and the money will come in handy. The kids will have a couple of gifts to open for Christmas, but Karla and I aren’t buying anything for each other. There is nothing I really need, just a few things I would like to have.

This week, I have no meetings of any kind, or any obligations. All the Christmas parties are over with…even though I only attended one (which was our youth Christmas party). I missed our adult party because I worked last Saturday evening. No big deal.

Last evening, Karla, Stephen and I , worked on the garage door opener. Last week, Karla had disconnected it because it would not stay down…the sensors kept making it come back up. Unfortunately, we have been unable to use it, so last night all three of us worked on it, but we still could not get it to work right. It will go up by itself when you push down the remote, but you have to hold down the remote button until the door closes. Hopefully, I can get one of my friends to come over and repair it for us.

Since I have had nothing planned this week, I have been staying in touch with the other REACT members that monitor the police and fire calls during the day. I am prepared to respond and assist in traffic control on any accidents or fires. Yesterday was suppose to be an extreme fire danger day because of the wind, but we had very little wind, so there was not much of any fire danger to speak of. I kept myself available to respond after work, but nothing ever happened.

This evening, I have no plans, so I will be on stand-by once again for any emergencies that come up.