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ADRENALINE DUMP? EMT SAYS, “IT’S A REAL THING”

March 9, 2024 by

I’ve never heard of an adrenaline dump in this context: After an emergency situation you feel a need GO. An urgent need, but it’s during an emergency. If you’re wondering, ‘But Blogger D, what’s the big emergency?’ I’ll paint the picture:

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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN THREE PARTS

March 13, 2023 by

Civil disobedience arrived the night I was standing in front of an Army barracks listening to an order from a captain. “First Platoon report.” I was the leader of the fourth platoon during a middle of the night fire drill where things didn’t go well. “Fourth platoon, report.”

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NEW PEOPLE AT WORK DO THE JOB DIFFERENTLY?

April 21, 2021 by

New people at work, or in the neighborhood, take some getting used to. They come in three varieties: Recognizable, unrecognizable, and somewhere in between the two. The hard part for new people isn’t being recognized or not. They know who they are. It’s the rest of us who’ve been at work or in the neighborhood […]

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NEIGHBORHOOD LIFE: NEW PLACES, SAME NEIGHBORS

February 12, 2021 by

Neighborhood life changes when you change, otherwise it’s the same thing / different day every day. Does that sound like a rut? It’s a rut. Every time you hear the response “Same ol’ same ol’” when you ask how things are going, remember it when someone asks you. It’s a cry for help. Okay, maybe […]

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UNIFORM POWER CHANGES PEOPLE

June 5, 2020 by

Buffalo Men In Blue Serving And Protecting If you’ve never seen uniform power up close, keep reading. This post might shed light on how people change when they put on a uniform with a bunch of other people. Or you might want to skip the read, after all, it’s just another old white male boomer, […]

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SETTLE OLD SCORES OUTSIDE, WIN THE BIGGER WAR INSIDE

April 1, 2017 by

    Small wars turn into bigger war, small conflict to large scale How far back do you go to find a good war? It’s not that war, the Good War, the Last Good War, the Big One. The end results justified the means in WWII. Industrial death and human neglect in the Axis Powers […]

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POLICE STOP PROTOCOL FOR BOOMERS

September 29, 2016 by

Driving 80 in a 55 means behave yourself. A police stop protocol when you’re pulled over in the middle of nowhere for speeding goes like this: From the beginning: – This car has a little growl when you punch it. You ever punch it? = No, I’m not a race car driver and neither are […]

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TIGARD POLICE EVENT: HOW NOT TO GET SHOT

May 1, 2016 by

I got the wife phone call you never want to get. No, not the one where she’s run off to Spain with a gypsy king, or discovered her true self with a Starbucks soothsayer. This phone call: “David, I see nine police cars in front of our house and parked in our driveway. You need […]

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STREET FIGHTING MAN, OR PUSH OVER

February 6, 2016 by

Breaking up a street fight doesn’t take a street fighting man. My reward for breaking up a street fight was a punch in the face. Street fighting is a personal thing, apparently one you shouldn’t interfere with. Except when it’s in your neighborhood. And it’s a man beating a woman. Then it gets personal. City […]

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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND NURSING HOME RESCUE: HOW TO GET A ‘RELEASE’

January 14, 2016 by

It started out well, then turned into a nursing home rescue. If you’re married, chances are good you have in-laws. Maybe a mother-in-law, a father-in-law, or both. If you like one better than the other, don’t hold it against yourself. They probably like their kid better than you, so it breaks even. In long-term marriages […]

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