Camp Health Care Technician

That is my job title when I work out at Maranatha Bible Camp on my days off from Midwest Medical Transport. This is my fourth summer working out at MBC. My first summer, I played bass on the worship team and ran the archery range. The second summer, I worked mostly in the Information Center. Last summer I worked full-time as a health care teach. This summer I am volunteering as a Health Care Tech once more. I love it. It is a lot of basic first aid and the cleaning up of body fluids, but our main responsibilities are dispensing camper medication and the preaching of safety and the importance of taking care our yourself in the hot summer sun.

It has been a relatively safe summer out at camp. Only one call for the ambulance so far.

Monday, the Fourth of July, is the big Independance day celebration and Adventure Triathalon out there. I have the day off from Midwest and will probably spend most of the day out at the camp.

If you are the praying type, please pray for health and safety out at camp.

Happy Almost-Canda-Day to all the Canadians that read this.

Scanning the Horizon

In mythology there is a creature whose task it was to roll a giant stone up a hill. Everyday he'd do this and never stop.

Today my task is of the same monotonous variety. I am scanning, scanning months of records from the company headquarters into the computers into our crude system of digital archiving. We've been doing it for months now and have not gotten very far yet. We've scanned over 100,000 pages of information already. Each page takes about 30 seconds to scan and enter into the computer. Thats about 50,000 minutes, or about 830 hours. This could be a full-time job for someone. We still have boxes and boxes of company records to get through. As of right now, the light at the end of the tunnel is non-existant.

We only scan when we are relatively short on hours. It has been pretty quiet on the days that I have worked this week, so I am making up some hours in the office scanning.

At least it is air-conditioned in here.

Cello Sold

Thats right folks. I sold one of my babies. I sold the cello I bought in Junior high. It was my primary cello for many years. I took it all over the place and it had the love marks to prove it. It was a great instrument though and it played very well. I sold the cello to the student to whom I give lessons. She just graduated from high school and needs something she can haul off to college with her. Up to this point she had been renting instruments which can get fairly expensive after several years. After college and medical school, she'll probably want to step up to a better instrument, but the one she bought from me will be a good one for her for the time being. She played it for several weeks befor buying and seems to like it.

I have three other cellos still. The one I play primarily is one I bought on Ebay a few years back. I payed around $150 for it. It looks great, and with the new stigns I bought for it, it sounds great too. The other two I have are lower quality instruments that would make great student cellos.

It was a busy week with the ambulance company last week. I ended the week with a bunch of overtime. I don't mind the extra money. This week seems to be off to a busy start, too. Here we go again.