Finally... my eXp should ship out-->>

[Istanbul_Tea]

Tomorrow!!  Yee-Haw!  [^][]

A couple days for delivery and I would imagine it should be here Wednesday!!

[hoogie]

any sign if it yet?

come on ... don't keep us all in suspense!

[Istanbul_Tea]

Just talked to Peter White... it left his shop yesterday and should be here tomorrow or Thursday!!

[hoogie]

You lucky lucky sod ...

My Nomad is in a box somewhere between here and Rotorua ... I am being posted to Rotorua in the North Island for 3 months to help train new recruit firefighters, and the firm have couriered my Bike up there for me.

hopefully you will have pics before I leave this weekend!

cheers,
hoogie

[George]

Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

(channeling an impatient child...)

[George]

Hoogie -- here in the US, firefighters are typically employed by the municipality (and spend their working life in the same place). I take it it's different in NZ?

[hoogie]

Yes ... we have a national fire service here, made up of career staff [permanents] and volunteer ... career staff make up about 20% of the total but go to 80% of the incidents, vollies make up 80% and go to 20% of the incidents ... composite brigades have both career and volunteer staffing.

Recruit training is done at a national level, as is the follow-on firefighter and officer courses ... other courses like MVA extrication are done on a district/station level ...
more info at www.fire.org.nz

cheers,
hoogie
http://www.hoogie.co.nz