EMS and Computer work are similar.

Today I sent a lot of time working on hardware issues on computers. It is interesting when I had a class for Sick/Not Sick last week at Colfax Fire the paramedic teaching the class was talking about Trauma Cases versus Medical Cases. He said though Trauma get the blood pumping on newer EMT's and Paramedics. When they have done a lot of them trauma cases are sort of boring. It is usually discovering the problem, then fix it. Discover the next problem and fix it. There is not a lot of work. You usually can see the problem. Trauma cases after a while get old hat. They are the same thing. I am not saying it loses its challenge, but it gets old. Medical calls are much harder because you have to uncover the signs and symptoms then you have to treat for what you have discovered. Many times each case is different and challenging.

In some ways that is the same with hardware versus software problems. The hardware is pretty simple. Bad harddrive. Install a new one. Bad monitor, install a new one. Software is much harder because you cannot always tell what the problem is, you have to do a lot more work to fix it and it can be challenging. Yesterday all the hardware I worked on was not challenging, just more or less busy work. The software problem we have been having with the server and client computers has been hard to figure out and we are still trying to figure out the problem.

So yesterday was I busy doing busy work. But it had been a while since I have done so much hardware stuff. It was nice in some ways.

When I was done working here I went to Pullman for Haz-Mat training. We went over the Old Post Office call we had last month. We covered some stuff about decontamination. That was about it.

I headed home and I watched Van Wilder. I watched the ending the other day, but now I have seen the whole thing. That is a pretty good movie. A lot of thing made me laugh. I finally got to bed before midnight. It was the first time this week.