Day #98: This is not a drill
I didn’t sleep last night to say the least.
I got woken up by our next door neighours who are renting for the ski season and were partying last night. As a result I was up at around 03:45, and that was me for the evening. I went downstairs, had a cup of peppermint teat and did a little work on a future podcast I’m working on.
My sugars this morning, before I forget, were 4.2
I was fully planing on getting a little computer stuff worked on, and then heading back to bed around 6 or 7 in the morning for a couple of hours to catch up with the rest of my sleep, but it wasn’t to be.
Before I went back to bed, the phone rang at around 07:30. It was search and rescue. We had a call out, and it wasn’t a drill, repeat “this is not a drill”. I won’t go into any details as I’m unsure of the legal implications of data protection and all that, but my wife packed some fruit in a bowl for me and I got off to Sparwood pretty fast to meet up with the rest of the team there. I was unsure exactly of how I was going to be able to contribute, after all I’ve only been to a few practices, but when I got there, a few of the guys and girls were really helpful, and also told me that every roll on a SAR team was equally as valid to the success of the operation.
As it turned out, I did a little work at the command base, answering the radio and noting team updates, and then went out on an assignment with one of the more experienced members of the team, and later on even got to interview someone who had seen the missing party, and we got some new information. Like I say I can’t go into details for legal reasons, which is probably frustrating, be hey, what can you do. The long and the short of it was however, that the missing people were found late this morning and there were no fatalities.
I made my way home after we had lunch and were de-briefed and had a lovely salad with my wife and son. The first time we’ve all sat down and eaten with knives and forks and plates together in 3 months! I enjoyed it. We all did.
After that I headed to bed for a kip and slept like a baby for a couple of hours. When I woke up I hadn’t even moved position - I was knackered.
My son decorated our Christmas tree tonight to his traditional Christmas tree decoration music, which is “Any way you want it” by Journey. I was playing it one year in our old house as we decorated the tree, and it’s kind of stuck since then, which is nice.
We also finished off watching “American gangster” tonight - what a good film. It was accompanied by a few nice sips of whisky and a lovely little nutty dessert my wife whipped up, with a little honey and tahini mixed in there. Nice.
So, an interesting day, and good experience for me on a SAR team. And even though, I slept this afternoon, I think I’ve still got a good enough sleep deficit in the bank to be able to sleep tonight pretty well.
Neighbours allowing…
‘night.
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