Taser Fun

Yes, this is me being tased. Worst 5 seconds of my life. Glad I did it for the experience but I'll never do it again.

I got Pix

Here are some real pix from my graduation. Pay no mind to the color of my uniform. It's supposed to be blue. My sister-in-law said that her camera was set on a weird color setting. She still took some awesome pix. I'll post some with the correct colors later.

I am done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just finished academy and I couldn't be happier. Graduation was yesterday. Very cool. So releived to be done. Now the real fun starts. Goin' out and gettin' the bad guys. I start out on graveyard working the not so nice part of town so it should be fun. Here's a shot of me from graduation. Enjoy.

Brian

Update

Wow. I just looked at my blog. Has it really been 9 months since I posted anything. Ok, Readers Digest version.Started going to a new church. Very big church. It's weird to be an anonymous face in the crowd. Went through background check with Portland PD. My daughter moved back home. Other daughter graduated HS. Hired by Portland PD. Turned 45 and my wife turned 40 and we celebrated 21 yr anniversary. Celebrated in-laws 50 yr anniversary. Went to police academy on July 26 and just finished week 9. 7 weeks to go. Been a pretty eventful, stressful and happy time but God is faithful and sustains me and my family through it all. Too much info to fit in this format. I'll try (haha) to post info more often. Heres a pic from my swearing in ceremony. Thanks for reading.

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2009?

Well, here we are on the eve of a new year. Whats in store? I have absolutely no idea. But I know that God is in control. Some new things that are happening going into the new year are, possible job change, new church, daughter moving out and the other graduating soon and moving out for college. We'll be empty nesters soon. WOW!!!!! I'm way too young for that. If some of you that follow this blog or just happen to come across this while surfing the Web, we have had some pretty nasty weather here in Portland. We just finished a massive snowstorm( easy now, it's all relative) in which we received, at my house (see pix), 16 inches of snow, with freezing rain in the middle of that. Everyone that asked for a white Christmas are probably rethinking that request. Not as fun as one might think. Mainly because when you live in an area that doesn't receive regular snowfall, the city is ill-prepared to handle such an event. Not enough and outdated equipment doomed us before we even had a chance. On the brighter side, my in-laws are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this June. Should be fun. So, thats it for now. I'll post more later, especially if I hear any news of job change.


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13.1

As if I don't subject myself to enough pain and misery, Carolyn, Jim and I ran th EWEB Run to stay Warm in Eugene this morning. Actually, as far as runs go, this was probably my best. Good weather, no rain. I felt good and I ran a PR 1:56:35. Not too bad for not really training much. Probably a fluke.

More updates....

Just an FYI, I passed my oral boards with Portland Police yesterday. I was really hoping that I would pass. I felt that if I passed everything else then the background check would be a breeze. Anyway, I should know something in the next couple of months. My hope is that I receive an offer from Portland before OSP because I think Portland would be a better fit for me. More opportunities and closer to home. There is always the danger of OSP offering me a position away from here ie; Eastern Oregon, K Falls etc and I would have to turn them down. Hopefully I dont end up shooting myself in the foot(figuratively of course). I'll keep all of you posted.


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