World through a childs eye by =olorinpc on deviantART

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Through the eyes of a child

Check out my deviantArt Portfolio here: Jake Barnard – Digital Works

Here are a couple of my favorite pieces that are on there:

On the merry-go-round by =olorinpc on deviantART

Ready for the ride by =olorinpc on deviantART

Firetrucks on Parade BW by =olorinpc on deviantART

The portfolio is separate from the deviantArt galleries, but all images displayed on there can be found in my dA gallery.  Prints can also be purchased from the dA gallery if you see something you really like.  I have discovered the downside to taking tons of pictures with the new camera is developing a huge backlog of images to process and post, but that is part of the fun!

Oh and if anyone has a better idea for a tagline, let me know.  I think it needs some work.

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Parade today in Jamestown North Dakota.

Left side – trucks from the Jamestown Fire Dept.
Right side – trucks from the Jamestown Rural Fire Dept.

(I’m with JRFD)

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Firetrucks on Parade BW

Looking down the market

Originally uploaded by Olorinpc

Just found out that this picture has been selected to be included in the “Schmap Seattle Eighth Edition,” an online guide to locations.

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Looking down the market

• Garden of the Gods 20
  Posted on Sunday, June 28th, 2009 in Uncategorized – Comments: (0)
  Garden of the Gods 20Originally uploaded by OlorinpcAwesome pic I got while visiting Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs while visiting the Goodrich office there for work.

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Awesome pic I got while visiting Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs while visiting the Goodrich office there for work.

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Garden of the Gods 20

• Someone said it is Spring now
  Posted on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 in Edelet – Comments: (0)
  Well rumor has it that it is Spring now.  As everyone is aware we are certainly getting the water up here – though still have snow slated for the weekend.  Oh well – nature really doesn’t seem to care what our calendar says.It has been a pretty busy last couple of months for me.  I have been digging out literally (snow drifts) and figuratively (workload).

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It has been a pretty busy last couple of months for me.  I have been digging out literally (snow drifts) and figuratively (workload).  Though there have been some exciting developments along with some sad ones as well.

A couple of weeks ago I went out with my mom to Seattle (well Vashon Island which is in the Puget Sound by Seattle) to say goodbye to my Opa.  (Opa being Grandpa in German.) Our timing was good as he passed away a week later.  It was nice to get out there and spend some time with him and some of our relatives.  I was out there briefly for a work conference 2 years ago, but had only been able to visit for a day.  I did take pictures while I was out there and uploaded them to flickr.

On a more exciting note though, ThatEdeGuy saw the birth of his 2nd child, a little baby girl.  (My wife and I were asked to be Godparents – though it was exciting enough already without that additional part.) I will be posting some of the pictures I uploaded to flickr later. She had a little lung infection that has prevented them from bringing her home, though things have been going very well and sounds promising for getting to come home tomorrow.  (My wife will probably be sneaking to the hospital today to get more time holding her when I am not looking. )

Dart League is just about over for the year.  I am having trouble being sad about that as it has been a longer than normal season and even going every other week seemed like a larger time commitment than I thought it was going to be.  Even so, we finished out a lot better than we thought we were going to.  There were 13 Monday Night teams.  After riding 10-12 all season, we fought our way up to the #7 slot after this past Monday’s performance.  This weekend we have the end-of-season tournaments.  Starts Friday night at 7:30pm, then continues Saturday morning at 11am.

Locks away half of the weekend, but should be a good last hurrah with the team.  (Since we have gotten a whole lot better during the last half of the season, should go pretty well too. Though may get done with that and be needed for the Jamestown Sandbagging effort!)

Last but not least today, while I have been posting here a lot less than I would like, my frequency of updating my Twitter account has stayed pretty high.  So make sure to check it out.

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Someone said it is Spring now

• Fireschool 2009
  Posted on Monday, March 2nd, 2009 in Uncategorized – Comments: (2)
  Well things have been a little quiet around here.  Mostly due to just being super busy, so haven’t really been keeping up on the blogging.  This past weekend I was offline the whole weekend, but it was well worth it.We had our annual NDFA State Fireschool in Bismarck, ND.  We had 5 Firefighters from the Jamestown Rural Fire Department attending.  (The Jamestown Fire Department had a few guys in attendance as well.

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We had our annual NDFA State Fireschool in Bismarck, ND.  We had 5 Firefighters from the Jamestown Rural Fire Department attending.  (The Jamestown Fire Department had a few guys in attendance as well.) Fireschool is just an awesome time.  You learn a lot, meet ton of other firefighters from around the state, and get to know your guys better.

I was able to attend a number of great classes this year.  (Haven’t had a bad class yet really.) Air Management, in which we really got to know our SCBA’s and exactly how long we could stretch our air supply.  Building Construction/Fire Behavior/Firefighter Safety, learned current trends in construction and how fire acts in a structure.  Primary Search, this was probably my favorite class of the weekend.  (Even though it was Saturday morning and we were having, er well a slow start.) Some classroom time followed by 2 person teams being sent into a smoked up trailer to search.  This was followed by an after action report of what you could have done better, what you did right, etc.  Next I had Fire Streams and Fire Control, which was a more external approach to structure fires.  By looking at the outside what does it tell you about how you should approach the fire, potential of people inside, safety of the firefighters, etc.  The final class I had on Sunday morning was Pump Operations and Maintenance.  Knowing a bit more about how a pumper works inside really helped with understanding how to run one.

So a huge info dump with plenty of experiance and information to bring back to the guys on my own department.  It was my second year attending and can’t wait till next year!

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Fireschool 2009