Thursday, January 25, 2018 1216 Hours
People sometimes say that life has those little moments that stand out, make an impression, and really define who are. After the dollar flu swept the nation on Black Friday, everyone found themselves making quick, sometimes rash decisions, where instead of being defined or memorable, every waking moment includes decisions that will often lead to life or death. This is how it is now, this is the way things have to be. It's the quiet, peaceful, or otherwise dull moments that are now memorable, simply because they come so few and far between the clutches of evil and violence.
I used to take the LIRR into Penn station every day to work. Catch the 5:30 am train, grab myself a coffee and grind out long days on construction sites working for a local carpenters union. All of that seems like a distant past now, a separate reality. Instead of worrying about hearing from the boss about what needs to get done and in what amount of time, I found myself now carrying out technical sabotage for a government agency, and almost always in a deadly scenarios.
Everything is more calculated now, do I override the LMB's command post main computer terminal to shut down their security cameras? If I fail and get caught, me and whoever I am with will certainly die or get caught and then who knows what. Calculated risk, that is the name of the game now, judging if things or supplies are worth dying for.
And sometimes they are.
I had an engineering background, and a degree in Information Security, and was eventually interviewed by a Division Agent Recruiter (DAR) and asked to meet a facility for a fitness test. I passed the test, and was then given a watch with a GPS coordinate to perform a field test at an unknown time. I was told that no matter what was going on, I needed to drop what I was doing and show up, as that is what is required in order to maintain continuity among a disaster. I will describe further my experiences in training when I have time and my eyes are not closing on me. There aren't many nights nowadays when I can get solid shuteye, but Steve has watch tonight so I will try to get some.
For anyone that cares, or anyone wants to put some of the pieces together, I will be writing in this journal some of my experiences. Maybe it will help someone out there with what works and what doesn't because I am still learning on the fly. Even with my division training I was not ready for the destruction of society as we know it. Here's to a solid nights sleep for once and hopefully this gets out to someone and can help them keep pushing on as the good guys are all in this together.
