Drive the 3000L truck or 1000L tender. Run hoses to hydrant. Use mounted water cannon, or run hoses out. Put out, scrub, bush, structure, or vehicle fires. Rescue puppies from drains.
Getting plenty of training, learning lots of different equipment, have a good team currently.
Eg. Last week at training, I tried out the 'Hot Stick' high-voltage detector. For finding live wires, beeps when high current closeby.
And newsgroups were chock full of individual honest content(This was pre-trolls. The worst was a flame-war or two).
Webrings were like a pass-the-parcel where one website would have a link on to the next, and so on.
The HardOCP and the first years of ARSTechnica were great for overclocking info.
Following the build guide for a Damage-Box, to get a Celeron 300A running at 450MHz was exceptional.
Slashdot was an early forum share-point to percolate up decent tech news.
ICQ ruled the IM scene.
Bonzi-Buddy was an early enshitification example, hot garbage, clippy-esque nonsense.
Broken wrist falling out of tree, broken nose on playground, fall down 3 stairs onto forehead, several years of skate falls. Should make it through all that with a weeks bedrest.
Then I remembered 3 years of ingrown big toenails... dead.
MX Master 3 is the GOAT for productivity. Been testing it for 2 weeks now.
The 125Hz polling rate is a drag for fast gaming though (read up beforehand).
Get the Master 3S for silent mouse-clicks.
The Master 4 is reported to be a downgrade too.