Well Tracy and I are already for an egg retrieval tomorrow.

We've been out for rides on each of the last two days and have had to use an extra dose of the trigger hormone, but apparently this is becoming more common.

My Uncle Peter and his wife Sue are going to be here in Sydney over the weekend to see the stage production of The Phantom of the Opera and we hope to catch up with them for a coffee or meal before they return.

And on a sad note only four more rostered shifts before holidays.

Be careful out there and I'll see you at the Big One.

Taz

Smart Pay

This is a question for the ASNSW people who read the blog, sorry.

I've been getting a message for a week now of a new version of Smart Pay but all the home pages I go to are for older versions.

Has anyone contacted Bruce about the new version?
I have Version 4.0 what is the cost of the upgrade to 4.09?

I await your replies

Be careful out there and I'll see you at the Big One.

Taz

As previous readers will know Tracy and I are on an IVF (in vetro fertilisation) program.

A quick update is that we should have a egg retrieval on Friday and implant a couple of fertilised ones on Monday and I can be present for both.

Most of the nightly injections Tracy has had to do by herself as I have been working and I have likewise not made it to a single blood test or scan.

So time will tell if there will be a little Taz to come.




Be careful out there and I'll see you at the Big One.

Taz

It's gone a bit QUIET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any day on the job I'd be abused by my workmates for using the 'Q' word but it's true.

Well for me it is.

No juicy jobs to titillate you with.
No points to ponder.
A bit of politics which is of no interest if your not from the Ambulance Service of NSW.

But it's a seasonal thing.

It's been cold as buggery and pissing down with very heavy storms and that has just driven the punters away.

So has anyone out there got something interesting to say?


Be careful out there and I'll see you at the Big One.

Taz

Only in Sydney

Right, WYD and the Catholic squad have been and gone.

What's next on the Grand Events for public access???








Sexpo 2008!

Only a week after the Pope was here you and/or your partner can wander the long aisle of intimate items.



Got to love Sydney

Be careful out there and I'll see you at the Big One.

Taz

Union Rally,

A really great turn-out for the rally with lots of support from the public.

While I am someone who likes my two ten hrs day shifts and the two fourteen hrs night shifts I can see that twelve hrs shifts are going to come one day, the 'F' word and even then there will still be staff who think that they don't have to prepare for their shifts to ensure they are in peak condition at work.

Who would work twelve hrs with only wenty minute breaks?

Fair Work and Fair Pay, and all that too!

The World Youth Day festivities may be over but the pilgrims still haunt the city. I was talking to one of the prettier brethren of the constabulary (Police) about had there been any targeting of the pilgrims by the seedy underbelly of the city and she tells me that the whole event had been reasonably incident free when the increase of potential victims is considered.

I guess it was because they moved around the city in 'God Gangs' ha. ha, ha!


Be careful out there and I'll see you at the Big One.

Taz

I've got to take holidays again!

While it only seems like last month I am due and required to take another three weeks holiday soon.

So I have to take whatever overtime I can to build up the bank balance because holidays always takes a toll on the funds. To that end I have a couple of night shifts lined up that will do that.

There is a bit of a push on at the moment by the union to bring to the public's attention some less than attractive offers for alterations to our work.

There is a rally on Tuesday the 22nd in Martin Place in Sydney in the morning to do this, it is timed to coincide with a local television morning show broadcast and I hope that as many officers attend as possible.

I believe by the nature of the job, the type of people who are ambulance officers are not what I might call militant but strong resolve must be shown to ensure that the advances and increases made in treatment and procedures that are now part of the qualified ambulance officers role are also recognised in a financial way.

We bring to the public a calm, authoritative reassurance that all is going to be ok!

We deal with the public when it seems that their whole world has turned upside down and down the poo shoot!

We are there in the dark and lonely places, in the wet and windy ones too helping to ease their pain!

We bring order and direction to the chaos of their accident!

We accept the blood, poo, wee, vomit, tears, anger and violence, it's just all part of our job!

If you are not an ambo but support us you are welcome to come to the rally.

Well that's about a militant as I get but it is my livelihood.

Be careful out there and I'll see you at the Big One.

Taz