Ditto.

Got into the habit of staying up rather late over the holidays, and didn’t get to sleep Monday night until 2 or so… so Tuesday passed in a blur. As is usual with me, I was tired as crap when I got home but by bedtime, I was wide awake. I finally fell asleep, and then got woken up by the Nextel at 4am. One of the jurisdictions in our county had a barricaded gunman with an SKS rifle and was asking for the tactical team. Urrrgh… Woke up, dressed, was scraping the ice off my car when they called back- never mind, he gave up. Well, now I’m awake… got maybe another 45 minutes of sleep before the alarm went off. As a side note, it’s better to just stay awake; that little sliver of sleep just made me more tired. As a second side note, the least the inconsiderate bastard could have done was let us kick in his door after waking us up at 4am.

Qualifications (see a couple posts down) went OK, despite my misgivings. A few people took more than one try, a couple required remedial; which I did this afternoon. One of them squeaked by on the last try… after I noticed they were trying to shoot isocoles, but not locking their elbows out.

Maybe they’ll practice some more this year.