ohpleaseohpleaseohplease...
Jun. 21st, 2002 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwyn*bounces up and down on balls of feet*
Red Cross NHQ just emailed me to ask if I was available for wildfire-related Disaster Computer Operations jobs that might come up this weekend. My boss says I can go as long as I get my assistant trained in handling donation batches. She already knows most of the process, so I'm gonna track her down after lunch and show her the rest.
Disaster Computer Operations means I go to the job headquarters and run tech support for twenty-one days (or more). I probably wouldn't get to go to the actual front lines, but that might possibly come up. Colorado is already staffed but Arizona and New Mexico are in trouble now and nobody knows how big the Hayman fire is gonna get and I'd finally get to do direct service again, I haven't been on a real disaster since they pulled me out of Manhattan, I wanna serve, oh Gods oh Gods oh Gods I wanna serve, I wanna go on one of these, pleeeeeeeeze let me do this let them call me let them say 'we need a DCO in Arizona or Colorado or New Mexico' or something, pleeeeeeeeeeeze....
It really doesn't take much to make me happy. Right now a phone call saying 'guess what, you get to sleep in a Forest Service building filled with ash and yuk and crap in a portajohn for the next three weeks while living on Frito-Lay products and two-year-old bottled water' would make me the happiest little computer geek alive.
Oh, please let them need me!
Red Cross NHQ just emailed me to ask if I was available for wildfire-related Disaster Computer Operations jobs that might come up this weekend. My boss says I can go as long as I get my assistant trained in handling donation batches. She already knows most of the process, so I'm gonna track her down after lunch and show her the rest.
Disaster Computer Operations means I go to the job headquarters and run tech support for twenty-one days (or more). I probably wouldn't get to go to the actual front lines, but that might possibly come up. Colorado is already staffed but Arizona and New Mexico are in trouble now and nobody knows how big the Hayman fire is gonna get and I'd finally get to do direct service again, I haven't been on a real disaster since they pulled me out of Manhattan, I wanna serve, oh Gods oh Gods oh Gods I wanna serve, I wanna go on one of these, pleeeeeeeeze let me do this let them call me let them say 'we need a DCO in Arizona or Colorado or New Mexico' or something, pleeeeeeeeeeeze....
It really doesn't take much to make me happy. Right now a phone call saying 'guess what, you get to sleep in a Forest Service building filled with ash and yuk and crap in a portajohn for the next three weeks while living on Frito-Lay products and two-year-old bottled water' would make me the happiest little computer geek alive.
Oh, please let them need me!
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Date: 2002-06-21 12:40 pm (UTC)I'm getting ready to pack off one of my employees to the fires, probably Arizona, from what you've said. He's a 20 year old firefighter who's been doing this ever since he was old enough to go through the training and I'm already fretting! We'll be keeping you, the other RC workers, and the other people involved with this in our thoughts.