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backofthebus

Life is short and hard, like a bodybuilding elf

About Me

I'm 29, have been married for two years and have three children. I'm also a firefighter/paramedic for the Trenton Fire Department. All of that takes up a majority of my time. Otherwise I'm hanging out with my friends and trying to enjoy life. MySpace Layouts @ HOT FreeLayouts.com music / movies
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My Interests

art, music, history, museums, passing the medic exam, geocaching

I'd like to meet:

Sean Hughes, Kathe Kollwitz, Edward Hopper, M. C. Escher, Dennis Miller, William Tecumseh Sherman.
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Music:

Morcheeba, Moby, Dido, Primitive Radio Gods, Depeche Mode, God Lives Underwater, Gorillaz, Asian Dub Foundation, Outkast, Oldies, TMBG, Rammstein, Rancid, Rev. Horton Heat, Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, Young Dubliners, Dinosaur Jr., The Lemonheads, Mindless Self Indulgence, RHCP, Operation Ivy, Black 47, Bloodhound Gang, Lords of Acid, and many, many others I can't talk to my friends about for fear of a beating (i.e. some country music) I can listen to just about anything depending on the mood I'm in.

Movies:

Pi, American History X, Blazing Saddles, Trainspotting, The Shipping News, Memento, Pecker, LOTR, Reservoir Dogs, Shrek, Saving Private Ryan, Ice Age, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Training Day, Chicken Run, Schindler's List, Mother Night, Office Space, Ronin, Clerks, Grosse Point Blank, The Replacement Killers, The Transporter, The Transporter 2, Man on Fire, 25th Hour, Devil's Rejects, March of the Penguins, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, The Longest Yard

Television:

Myth Busters, CSI, The History Channel, Robot Wars, Junkyard Wars, Survivor, Without a Trace, Highlander, Discovery Health

Books:

The Detainees, Permanent Midnight, He Would Have Wanted it That Way, LOTR, Perv: A Love Story, Plainclothes Naked, Tuedays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Da Vinci Code, the comic book series; Demo

Heroes:

my parents, Kathe Kollwitz, Sean Hughes, William Tecumseh Sherman, veterans of war

My Blog

road trip

We took a road trip to Indianapolis this weekend.  We had a blast at the Children's Museum, the Indianpolis Museum of Art and the zoo.  Here is the link to my gallery, the first three albums...
Posted by backofthebus on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:23:00 PST

Lots of photos, new and old

Google has a web album called Picasa, that includes upload and editing software, it's pretty nice.  Check out my pictures.  I have all my digital pictures uploaded.  There are wedding p...
Posted by backofthebus on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:26:00 PST

Haleigh at the benefit breakfast


Posted by backofthebus on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:18:00 PST

April 2

April 2 was a pretty good day all around.  I passed my eye exam for AK, so I'm cleared to run any kind of equipment all the way up to overhead cranes.  I also found out my paramedic certific...
Posted by backofthebus on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:04:00 PST

Lockout

The lockout is officially over and recall letters could be going out as soon as tomorrow.From and including: Wednesday, March 1, 2006To, but not including : Thursday, March 15, 2007It is 379 days from...
Posted by backofthebus on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:22:00 PST

two part blog

 As an EMT, is it really possible to save someone's life?  Or rather, are we just delaying the inevitable?  I'm personally leaning towards the latter.  TV makes the world of medici...
Posted by backofthebus on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:39:00 PST

Makes you wonder

    I'm guessing that the inane ramblings are going to continue.  These ramblings come from none other than the person who reminded me just last week, "all this needs to stop".&nbs...
Posted by backofthebus on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:09:00 PST

Raping naked lettuce, sounds wrong doesn't it

A patient I had recently was telling me about her husband's inability to spell.  She was telling me about a letter he had written her while out on the road as a truck driver.  He wrote that ...
Posted by backofthebus on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:40:00 PST

Come see me on the picket line

Did I ever call that one?  It's been 14 days since AK locked us out and there is no end in sight.  To think positively though, AK is running the company into the ground without the union wor...
Posted by backofthebus on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:02:00 PST

The battle lines are clearly drawn

It's looking very much like AK is going to lock us out come Tuesday night.  They've already painted a picket line on the road near the main gate and put up fencing.  They've also been bringi...
Posted by backofthebus on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:07:00 PST