Well...today was not what you would call a barrel of laughs. I don't know if it was the weather, the lack of jobs (five jobs in a twelve hour shift does not make the shift pass quickly), or that I'm nearing the end of 5 sets of 12 hour days shifts - but I'm rather fed up.

It's not helped by being on your own in a car with no-one to talk to, and if you go back to the station for a bit of human contact you get shooed out by Control who want you either roaming the streets, or sitting at your standby point. Then I come home to an empty flat...

insert sound of mournful violins

There was one bright spark during the shift - that of a supposed heroin overdose. I turned up and the patient (female) was laying in bed asleep, also in the bed was a male. The patient turned out to be a heroin addict, on methadone and was also a prostitute. The flat was pretty much as you'd expect a junkie's flat to look.

The 'patient' was just sleeping, so I woke her up and she told me to go away, which I did - but only after checking her pulse, oxygen levels, blood sugar and so on and so forth.

Sitting in the car afterwards doing my paperwork, I found myself in a slightly better mood, it wasn't because the job was actually funny, nor was I bothered that if her 'male friend' had given her a shake she would have woken up without an RRU and ambulance being sent to her. But for some reason, unknown to be my mood was lifted, if only for a short while.

My final twelve hour shift of this run is tomorrow, when I shall try to post about standby points from my Smartphone. Then I have a week off - at least some of which will be spent running around nuclear bunkers and woods trying to shoot people with plastic pellets

This is just a quick test posting to see if I can get picture posting working from my mobile phone

If you can see the picture I've just taken - it's the view from the front of the car as I sit here on standby, in order to better cover our area

Of course, if this hasn't worked, then you will see nothing, and this post will just be confusing.

Extra karma points if you know where I am...