Thoughts on the Project so far

It is not easy to find time to get logged on and update you guys about the Project.

Not Chronicles of EMS necessarily, but Me and Mark meeting up and talking shop.  I apologize to any of you who clicked over on Friday morning looking for my usual You Make the Call segment, or on Sunday for the Sunday Fun, but I felt like the updates were coming fast and didn’t want to bury something else in with all the bits about Mark arriving.

I did put up the Angry Captain’s Close Call, which happens to be the theme for the November Blog Carnival, get your submissions in early, I plan on writing it on the plane and setting it to publish after I land.  I’ll be sending out the deadline before long.

Mark and I are hitting it off just fine.  It’s awkward trying to have the conversations we want to have with the cameras about, but it’s a learning curve and an amazing opportunity to bring you along with us in the way we had hoped in the beginning.

I arrived at Mark’s hotel a bit early this mornign and we had some time alone to just talk.

Then it was a fast frenzy of Chief’s, meetings, phone calls, twitters and facebook status updates.  I got Mark a local phone, but no data plan, so he’s started borrowing my iphone to make his updates as well.

Tomorrow is our first day out in the field, on an ambulance, and we’re both looking very much forward to it.  I’m trying to lod up pictures, but Mark’s hotel wifi is useless.  They’re looking into moving him to another hotel now.

It’s hard to do a project about social media and the internet without an internet signal.  Go figure.

Tonight is a free night, Mark and I both anxious to get somewhere and talk without the microphones, a chance to be 100% honest about some of the ideas discussed today.  We’re not holding anything back from our readers, don’t think that, just looking to not have to watch our language.

Mark promises to teach my to swear like an Englishman.

Keep an eye on the flickr feed on the sidebar for when the internet is back up and running where Mark is.

Big day tomorrow.

HM

Also on The Happy Medic…

• the Project rolls on! – November 12, 2009
• EMS Garage Podcast – November 6, 2009
• Reflections on Day 2 – the Project – June 9, 2010
• I’m on a boat – November 15, 2009