RJ’s Blog

For the last few days I had the honor, or is it the horror, of sitting though applicant interviews. We had many good people come in to interview. But there were answers to questions that made many of us shake our heads.

For the past few weeks I have been holding off writing about some of the anti police rhetoric currently permeating social media. Today I just feel the need to come out and say a few things. I know I don’t share a lot of personal stuff here so you may not know this, but I have a supervisory role in ...

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By now we all know what happened over night in Ferguson. The news is filled with stories of the riots and the violence.

As some of you might know I do some adjunct skills instruction at a local community college. I do classes for both the Criminal Justice and Fire Science programs. I also get asked to help with CPAT testing. CPAT is the Candidate Physical Ability Test given to most paid firefighters as part of the preemployment screening. Our local college does ...

Tonight I ordered Pizza but the delivery driver needed to call for directions due to a broken GPS... I guess he never used a map before...

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You take the good… you take the bad… you take them both… and there you have the facts of life… Some of you might recall the above words as the theme to a 1980s TV show called the Facts of Life. The last two weeks have been a big a reminder of some facts of life, as in there is ...

For the last week I have done my best to keep out posting anything about Ferguson, MO. My focus is on entertainment, not on news. But there is something in all this aftermath that needs to be said.

Followers of my blog should be aware that I had a little injury that needed surgery 2 weeks ago. Well today I had my post operation follow up appointment with the doctor.