This Is Your Brain...

I finally got to go out on road patrol yesterday for my internship, but only for a couple hours. He gave 3 tickets for people driving 70+ in a 55. There would have been a 4th, but we had to go to the animal shelter to let someone in to drop off a dog. It was pretty cool 'cause the officer has a mic he turns on for the camera to record, so even tho I was in the car, I could hear everything he and the driver were saying. One girl admitted to driving 74 even tho we clocked her at 71. And, of course, the officer wrote on the ticket that she admitted 74. We got a call ahead of time that she was tailgating people and was headed our way. So even tho there weren't any cops around when she was tailgating, she still got caught for something else and was warned about it. Didn't get to see anyone shot or tased, but maybe next time.

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Posted by Teriana at 11:31 AM | Permalink | Comments

I did another shift at the sheriff's dept yesterday. A couple was brought to the sheriff's office that day b/c neither of them had a driver's license. They had an infant with them and the officer found pot in the diaper bag. They weren't held, but of course, couldn't drive home w/o licenses so United Way came and picked them up.

Another guy came in to get a pistol purchase permit, but had an expired license. He waved it off and told the person working there, "Oh, don't tell anyone about it." He then proceed to get in his car and drive off with his presumably licensed passenger. The employee took great offense to this and said he'd have a ticket waiting for him when he came back for his permit.

It was a mostly uneventful night except for this drunk idiot brought in on domestic violence charges. He had just come from the hospital where he registered a point 3 something blood-alcohol level. He made some joke about how he wanted to kill himself, but when told he would be thrown in the tank in his underwear he changed his story and was all docile and cooperative. That is, until he emptied his pockets and wolfed down a methadone pill for which he didn't have a prescription. The sheriff's deputy didn't take any crap from him at all. The guy was trying to claim it was a blood pressure pill that he just all of the sudden decided to take. The deputy said to tell him what it was or he was getting his stomach pumped. The guy yelled, "Let's go!" and was promptly thrown against the wall and cuffed. He then began his pleas for mercy saying he was only kidding. After coming back from the hospital again after drinking 20 oz. of charcoal, he went right to bed.

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Posted by Teriana at 11:11 AM | Permalink | Comments

Looks like most of us are afraid of waking up without kidneys. Over the next two weeks I'm going to be recycling two of my old polls from my previous blog since most of you never got to vote in them.

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I had a dream last night that I got arrested because there was this giraffe in the front yard eating the grass and that was a job I could have been doing, cutting the grass. My mom figured it was some form of stress manifesting in my dreams caused from not doing something I should be doing. Well, that could be a hundred things!

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LAPoliceGear.com is having a promotion right now where you get free shipping and a free hat if you buy two 5.11 brand clothing items. That's like the Gucci of tactical gear. One of the items that would qualify is this tactical belt for 30 bucks. It's so plain it's chic.

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Notice where this was published, shootthestupid.com

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I snapped a few photos of my new diggs on Saginaw Bay.

1987 30' Chevrolet Honey RV. 6 MPG highway.

Same year fire extinguisher was last inspected.

Home of The World's Worst Cup of Coffee using Wal-Mart creamer, Taster's Choice instant coffee that expired in 2003 and water that's been sitting in a holding tank for over a year. Substitute locally grown Pioneer Sugar w/ Wal-Mart brand to make Official Beverage of Hell.

Master bedroom

Pumpkin's room. Alcatraz for hamsters.

Entertainment system

Office

Weight room

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Posted by Teriana at 11:37 AM | Permalink | Comments

Back in November of '07 I applied for a Security Screener job w/ TSA so I could be one of those people in the blue blazer that hassles you at the airport. After 7 months, 2 days of testing in 2 different cities, an invasive physical in a 3rd city, a second pee test in a 4th city in front of the nurse when they couldn't test the first sample, I've finally been "added to the ready pool of candidates." What the hell?!! I go through all that and they're not giving me a job immediately? Huff! They said they pick from the pool based first on veteran's preference and related job experience, neither of which applies to me. I could be in this pool for a year and they might not pick me. Then I'd have to start all over again.

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One time I met Mark Farner from Grand Funk Railroad. He was doing a book signing at the store I worked at. As I shook his hand, the guy who introduced us said something to the effect of, "You like this guy's music, don't you?" Well, I really didn't know any of his music. And I admitted it. He should have listed some of their songs for me. Just recently I was viewing Time Life's Guitar Rock series and saw how many big hits Grand Funk Railroad had. I feel like such a douche now!

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A couple months ago I wrote about how my Cabela's Visa left me high and dry and cut my credit limit to just 27% of its former glory. And they did this without any warning. I found out online two days before I received the letter they sent. Well, American Express has more faith in me. They just nearly tripled my credit limit. The strange thing is, though, instead of making it a nice round number like $6,000 or $5,500 they chose $5,866. What's up with that?

Anyway, thinking back on what Visa did, it made me do a search about the deceptive practices credit issuers use since I'd recently heard about credit card reform in the news. Can you believe that some companies have charged interest on debt already repaid after they hiked up interest rates without reason? It saddens me when the government has to step in and regulate a fair trade economy because businesses won't play fair.

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Posted by Teriana at 10:36 PM | Permalink | Comments

As if anyone could think otherwise, Thin Mints are the greatest Girl Scout cookies ever! Landslide victory.

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I got smacked in the elbow on Thursday by a tree. I was driving through the woods on the ATV and there was this 3" round half downed tree that I lifted up and drove under. I had to back up a bit to make a sharp turn and the tree sprung off the back of the ATV as I reversed and hit my arm. Since I was on an incline, the ATV kept rolling back and the tree pushed me over onto the front and stopped at my head. It must have been comical to watch. Me hunched over the handle bars, trapped under a tree. I stayed in that position for a few seconds as I caught my breath. My arm hurt like hell. Like passing a kidney stone through my elbow (which is apparently painful). I thought it was broken since I couldn't move it. I was really worried today when it still hurt and I couldn't bend my arm. It's just now starting to feel better. I can brush my hair again and shower w/ two hands. I'm just glad I finally got hurt doing something that can actually be dangerous. I forgot to mention the time I hurt the other elbow folding clothes.

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Posted by Teriana at 11:19 PM | Permalink | Comments

I started my field work internship at the local sheriff's dept on Monday. I got to work in the jail. There's some funny people in there. Like funny sad, not funny witty. I spent 10 hours following around C/O's and watching them shuffle around inmates and log every last detail. You turn off the kitchen lights, you log it. You move inmates to another cell so they can attend church, you log it. Then there's all the paperwork in triplicate during a booking (or quadruplicate if they're on parole). Not fun. I have a high respect now for what C/O's in jails and prisons do.

The booking process was something interesting with all the information that has to be recorded. There's a page where you have to answer yes or no if the inmate looks intoxicated, injured, homosexual, etc. Then they're strip searched when they change clothes. The women have to squat and cough. Apparently a cell phone popped out one time. I never want to go to jail.

About 3/4 of the inmates were men, but there were 7 women all crammed into one cell where you'd normally have 4. I felt bad for them 'cause every time the door was opened this rush of heat and BO enveloped you. They got no open window or fan. I got to chat with a few of them for a while while the others were at church. They all seemed friendly and easy going. The church guys looked scared as hell when women came out of their cell. Good thing for them the ladies have a separate church.

P.S. This is my 88th post on this blog in just 3 months. That marks one more than I did on my Fudgie in Juneau blog in a year. I'm so full of...stuff to talk about.

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I don't know what's come over me. I was shopping in Wal-Mart the other day and all of the sudden I decided I only wanted to buy American if at all possible. I already had my cart part way filled up before this sudden act of patriotism came over me. Since I was mostly shopping for groceries, it wasn't too hard to find things made/grown in America, but some of those companies can get pretty crafty. Some of the oldest and most American-as-apple-pie companies boldly print their headquarters address in small town rural America and you think it's made there. Wrong! Turn the box over to the other side and you see it's imported from Pakistan or something, but I didn't have to make too many hard choices.

It was not so easy when I had to shop for a few things outside the grocery section. I needed some of those long forks for roasting things over a fire. I went to the camping dept, picked out a set I liked, and was half way across the store before I realized I forgot to check where it was made. Of course it was made in Taiwan. So I went all the way back to camping and could not find one set there out of 4 that wasn't made in Asia. So I didn't buy any. I decided to shop for my long roasting fork thingy at another store. (Side note: I've since looked for long roasting fork thingies at four different stores and have yet to find one made in the USA.)

I went over to another section of Wal-Mart to buy a fan. The first one I looked at said, "Proudly made in the USA with foreign and domestic parts." What am I to make of that? Could be worse, I suppose. They're not sending all the jobs to foreign countries, only some of them. I never realized how many foreign markets have engulfed our stores like a white blood cell until I started looking. Even the last two "American" cars I've owned were made in foreign countries.

Well, I like this new kick I'm on. If I have to spend a few more pennies to buy American I will, 'cause it's going to come back to me in the long run. I only wish I'd started sooner.

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A sigh of relief. Finals are over. I studied for days and did exceptionally well on most them. I can finally breathe again. At least for a week and a half before the spring semester starts. I'm only taking 9 credits for spring, tho (as opposed to 14 in winter). I'm taking Criminal Justice Systems in the USA, Corrections, and CJ Field Work. I'll be doing an internship w/ the local sheriff dept. I actually pay the school $650 to work for someone for free. How messed up is that?

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Maybe too much. My whole front end is peppered with bugs. The recent rain finally cleared away the smears of bug goo. Why they choose my car to commit windshield suicide is unknown.

Last Sunday, several large deposits were left on the side of my car by what I can only assume was the last remaining Pterodactyl in existence. I couldn't stand it being there. I got a wet cloth and washed it off. The next day another bird plastered the other side of my car. This is a bad sign. So far I've been fortunate enough not to hit any large animals like everyone else in my immediate family has. It'll be just my luck. Last year I tried to hit a deer with my truck, but to no avail. Now I'm sure the whitetail gods will punish me and send herds of deer running in front of my car.

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