Second Day of Detective Class Hehehe
Good morning. This is just mi. It’s Thursday at 5:30 am and we’re just waking up the second time. Well a few minutes ago at least … we just finished having some turkey soup for breakfast. Yup yup … this is the good stuff. Hehehe AND there was a lot of it … so we’re doing our part. Earlier we were up just long enough to use the facilities and feed the kitties. They said … Hey Mom why don’t we try out that new dry food. It smells good! So, I said … Ok dears. Well, or something like that.Yesterday was a pretty good day of meetings, but it was long. There is a tremendous amount of information the guy is passing on. He was a cop for 10 years and you know those people talk different. They are strong, quick and detail minded in a manner that bequests you to listen carefully. They don’t mince words and have a keen almost sarcastic sense of humor, but not quite. They are more fun to listen to live than what goes on in television shows, because you know that it is true. I’m sure most of the stories he tells has been told before, because he gives this class over and over again, but he is an excellent presenter. He knows his material very, very well. My understanding is that he teaches this same program to everyone who needs to know the material in the whole state of Illinois. He works directly under the chief attorney general’s wing. AND, his name is Kelly O’something … so you gotta imagine this is the real old fashioned Irish tough guy. Hehehe he don’t mess around. Hmm, gotta say that to my son… Maybe if he tells them that he is half Irish he’ll get extra points!
So, anyway that being said … it was a great meeting. There were about 40-50 people there, but it was in a big room and spread out so that was a nice feeling. Today will be in the same room, but we’ll have to vacate at lunch for another meeting. That’s ok … longer lunch … maybe an hour and a half? Yesterday we had lunch in a place called something like colonial ice cream parlor, but they served breakfast, lunch and dinner. It was one of those average kind of places that have been around for about a hundred years, but it was big, nice, and well yes … we got dessert too. The speaker recommended it along maybe 3-4 other places. And with our handy dandy GPS we found it by doing a quick location search by distance. Service was fast too. We think we’re going back there again today. Well you know … I had a great meal, but now want to try that apple pie with pecans and caramel syrup dripped over it and cinnamon ice cream mmmmmm Oh yeah I’m just this bad.
Yesterday we made good time in getting out there … We got there early enough to look around for our favorite muffin place. We miss drove though a couple of times and had to pay better attention to the GPS. We’d gone in our own direction and it didn’t like that. We had thought we’d be more familiar with the area because we’d lived in Elgin like 8 years, but we came in on the south side of town that we weren’t real familiar with. This time we’ll get the muffins while we’re here in our own home town and then drive straight through. AND, we’ll make sure the machine says S. State street instead of N State street. That seemed to help some too. The other problem was that I went through a second entrance of the State facilities that I didn’t know too much about. I backed out and tried it again, because although it was an obvious entry I had thought the last time there was a big sign that I hadn’t seen this time. Sure enough that worked out. I was more familiar with the lay-out the second time. I had also remembered that there was a special place for handicap parking woohooo … that was sweet. Good for them!
During the meeting we sat in what became the front row, but we sat way over on the side. The table was very long. They had done some improvements since I’d been in this room last. There was two very large screens for the computer to be hooked up to them. They presented the same thing, but were optimized to being on one side of the room or another. It was a very good improvement. They were very large and easy to read. I think it’s the way of the future. Sr. got similar to that at the center. I don’t know enough to know if she could do power point presentations on her screens, but it is very large so that any one in the multi-purpose room can read them. We took a little teasing at the part where we tell our names and where we were from because we had let ourselves get expired, but there were 3 other in the room so I felt better about that and the other 3 were males … so I didn’t sound so lame. Hehehe.
The material presented followed up that other meeting we’d been too earlier with state regulations to report and investigate abuse and neglect. We take a lot of notes. The other was directly about Rule 50 which explains things and then this one on investigation is two day and it explains about procedures for going about things. I’d say then that the first meeting was on policy. I found something very interesting in that he was breaking the investigation down in a manner I guess is common with police, FBI and stuff. It is considered based on shoot I’m going to forget the right word. But, it allows you to go right down a common sense path where you prove things as you go. Sorta like criterion, but with my silly recall can’t bring it up. This is why people like us take lots of notes. We learned a lot about evidence and how to save it and how to write the official report. We’ll learn more today about giving interviews. I think we have to do the HORRIBLE role playing, but we don’t think we’ll have to go up front, but more than likely he’ll have us breaking up in groups. I hate that when it happens. If I have to take ANY role, I usually opt for scribe, but that’s dangerous too … emotionally that is. I don’t know if the same people are going to sit close, but we’re too near a stupid gaggle of women from the same agency who are pretty pompous. I’d hate to get stuck with them *big frowny face*
Hmm, seemed to have drifted a bit to some abstract thinking. Couldn’t tell you the direct chain of thoughts. Looking at the clock though and thinking that it’s about time I jump in the shower … maybe I better do that. I think I could get by at leaving at 7:30 am though … we’re going to go for that. Theoretically it takes about 75 minutes … we have to worry about a little construction problem at the end, but we got off the highway early and let the GPS do the directing. Well maybe we’ll leave 90 minutes … but am not going anywhere unless we jump in the shower.
Ok, that’s done … all’s good. Squeaky clean and with no incident. Lets see what the temps are like today. Hmm, up to 52 today. Have to make a judgment on which coat to bring. I didn’t really notice what folks were wearing yesterday, but I remember feeling kind of constrained by the coat. Think I can get by without it according to the thing where we just step outside, but then again all I would have is my light jacket and we’r pretty sure we need more than that. My only alternative would be to wear my father’s old jacket, which isn’t my best female side. Hmm, probably just have to wear the coat. After this season though we’ll need the pockets sewn up again or replaced. *Sigh* Ok, ok let’s be on with it.
Last night when we got home we found our sweetie … God Bless his heart. He didn’t have too much time before he had to leave for a game, but it was good time spent. Well most of it. We went through this four minute thing where we had something terrible on our face when we realized that we wouldn’t have enough time to eat with him AND get our snuggling in, but he gave us a moment and then it was like who cares about eating … lets get to cuddlin. Then everything stayed ok. I don’t remember what we talked about, with the exception of bringing some loose thoughts up on our youngest son becoming a state trooper. Who would have guessed sitting around talking detective was going to promote this kind of thinking. Our sweetie pie was on the side of let’s not go imagining things, but we were giving him a good tangle. Then there was something else just like it, but then I think we let go the steering wheel. We weren’t doing such a bang up job. We for the record have parts that can worry and obsess with the best of them.
Whooh lost some time there … I think we’re going to need getting going in a moment. We stopped to see the immediate news and read through a few articles – first the one of the brain surgery on the ND Senate who’s going to shake up power on the floor and then second the passing of sitcom star’s father, Raymond. Kind of a shame. Always hate to see people die. It seems though with age of 71 and a stroke and heart attack previously that he was most likely more vulnerable. Regrets always go to the family though. He had a wife and two grown children.
Hmm, that doesn’t put me in a very good mood. But, maybe that is inevitable. Ok, let’s think of something different now. We are going into a tough day #2 … suppose that’ll be ok. Our Sweetie has some meetings tonight, BUT, he said he’ll be over late (8 pm-midnight) on both Friday and Saturday. Hehehe we suggested a sleep over but he said no-go to that one. Eh … we’ll feel lucky just the same. We told him of our theory that he’d told his wife 10 years ago about us and the only reason she’s kept him is that he’s promised not to stay over night. He giggled. Well it was a random theory. Better get going though … There’s muffins to be gotten!
posted by Ann Marie @ 12/14/2006 07:17:00 AM
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