Fortuitousness

We got word yesterday that Hagen's original breeder in Germany would be delighted to train him. I'm in the middle of sorting out everything -- international crate, international health certificate, flight arrangements, etc. We're not sure yet when she wants him, which will be the deciding factor on the flight (duh), and the USDA only gives you 10 days from the time they authorize the health certificate to send him, so it looks like a hurry up and wait deal. I need to get the vet to update his vaccination passport (Impfpass) to reflect his rabies shot back in March, and take care of any other shots if any (I'm pretty sure he's up to date). Then, I get a crate, and wait to hear from Conny (the breeder).

Last night, I drove with Dana to medic class, because he was incredibly beat and I figured I could help with the driving or at the very least be a warm body to talk to. Instead of the test he expected, the class was the first half of WMD Awareness Training, and the instructor invited me to join in. I'll have to go back with him again tomorrow, but after that I'll receive WMD Awareness certification at both the state level and from the Department of Homeland Security.

And then is the nifty part -- after we're WMD Awareness trained, we're eligible for free training (your tax dollars at work). The government will fly you to Atlanta or Las Vegas, put you up in a hotel and feed you, and put you through several days of classes on suicide bombers and bomb construction or virus/chemical warfare, etc. In the bombing classes you actually make bombs, and then they videotape you up on the range setting them off, and then you're qualified to teach the class on bomb awareness (backed up with your tape to prove you did the stuff). In the bio/chem class, it ends with a trip into a sealed chamber and you actually work with the stuff. For that one, they take blood before and after, and give you a physical. You can pass the class without going through the chamber, but if you do, you get a little COBRA (Chemical, Ordinance, Biological, Radiological) lapel pin.

And how cool is THAT shit? :) I ask you.

I found a bug!!

I finally caught up with a Sprint technician who walked me through the email in my box until we located the culprit -- an all-html email sent out by Renaissance Magazine was causing my Business Connection to fail. (Business Connection is the app that looks at whatever's in my Outlook at the time, and allows me to delete emails or reply to them on my phone, but also makes those changes on my computer.)

Once that was fixed, I mentioned that there was an erroneous calendar entry on my phone that *didn't* show up on my Outlook -- we work a duty shift every other Sunday, and this was indicating that we also had duty shifts on the Sundays that we *don't* work. It turns out that while Outlook displays the recurring appointments correctly, every other week, Business Connection displays them every week. This is especially weird considering that I have the same thing set up for our every-other-Friday shifts, and those display correctly both in Outlook and Business Connection.

So. I found a bug! That and a few bucks will get me a cherry limeade at Sonic.