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Tag Archives: BVFD
Photos from 2007 Risk Watch at Chapel Forge Elementary School
We (the Bowie VFD Auxiliary) recently came into possession of photos from the 2007 Risk Watch at Chapel Forge Elementary School in Bowie. I staffed the “Dress a Firefighter” station, with the help of Ms. Mary Locker, and I took … Continue reading
This is How we Roll in Bowie
This is the strangest thing I’ve seen since I joined the Bowie Volunteer Fire Department. And, yeah, it’s what you think it is… Powered by ScribeFire. Technorati Tags: BVFD, fire department, Wienermobile
Embedding Google MyMaps in webpages
Google Maps is cool, and I found a link to a Spanish-language blog entry describing how to load the map with the proper overlay in the “Embed one of My Maps” thread on the Google Maps API group. Now my … Continue reading
One Day, Two Bowie House Fires
While ITGuy sorts out the problems with a remote file system I need to use I can report on the goings-on of Friday. On the way home from work about 4:20 PM I saw a column of thick black smoke … Continue reading
Amarok makes my iPod happy
In populating my new iPod with music I discovered an annoying thing: album art was only being loaded for music ripped and encoded with iTunes. Well, that sort of made sense, okay. But iTunes does not give you a way … Continue reading
Finally, something in Bowie caught on fire!
Yesterday we spent the afternoon in DC with our friends Marc and Becky. We successfully navigated our way from the DC line to the vicinity of the National Zoo, and Misty pulled off a feat of parallel parking that would … Continue reading
So that’s the kind of days it’s going to be, is it?
When getting out of the car at work this morning I placed my coffee on the roof, as usual. As I’m halfway out of the door it slides down the roof, lands between my shoulder blades, the lid comes off, … Continue reading
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Making maps for the fire department
I’m on the committee that’s working on new mapbooks for BVFD. None of us are GIS people, and there are two ways to approach this problem. One is simple (but limited) and one is hard (but powerful). Here’s the simple … Continue reading
Photos of fire…heh heh heh…that was cool!
I figured out how to link This Blog to my Flickr account. Now you should see a link under pages (on the left) that’s titled “BVFD Photos“. At the moment, it contains the photos that I took this past Saturday … Continue reading
It’s not like being a state worker…those were the days!
I’ve been pretty busy the last few days working on the documentation I’ve got to assemble for my retention and promotion panels. The materials needed for the retention panel aren’t too hard to assemble, but the promotion case is a … Continue reading