Yes, it's True - Old NFO Really Does Know Everybody!

Today I had a client I'm representing in a civil dispute up from Florida to participate in a court-ordered mediation to try and resolve the dispute short of continued litigation.

Mediation, is as the name suggests, facilitated by a mediator and after the parties initially meet and go over the dispute, we start having the mediator do some shuttle diplomacy with proposals to resolve it. In short, it's a way to let the parties try to resolve their differences and craft their own destiny.

This leads to some time to chat as the other side debates and thinks about our proposal, and then refuses it, or issues a counter or what-not.

Proposals turns into a back and forth negotiated number for settlement, which leads to time to talk while waiting for the next number to come by as the other side needs to figure out their next move.

My client is an Annapolis Grad, former surface warfare type and engineer and we're busy chatting about all sorts of stuff and his many interesting adventures.

So I decide to go for the Old NFO test: "Hey, do you know Old NFO {actual name}?"

His eyes get kinda wide and he goes "How the F do you know Old NFO {actual name}?"

So I explain how I know him and he says how he knows him, and yep, he really, really does.

Yep, they know each other quite well, although he notes he hasn't talked with Old NFO in a while, but we both have Old NFO's phone number in our phones.

Quite a small world out there.

Heck, it's like 3 degrees of Old NFO, which is much cooler than 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon.

So Old NFO, Brian out of Florida says "Hi".

NRAAM Day 2 - Old NFO's Rifle

There's a large crowd on the exhibition hall floor. Lots of things to see as you make your way through.

One of the first things Murphy and I found was the first rifle issued to OldNFO when he joined the Navy:

NRAAM First Aid For Shooters

This year Kelly of Ambulance Driver Files along with help from Murphy's Law, EMS Artifact, and Jeff B, gave his most excellent First Aid for Shooters class. The class was followed by a presentation from LawDog, who gave a short (due to room booking limitations only we could have stood to sit and gain much more wisdom from him had there been time) but very informative talk on Critical Incident stress.

Here's Kelly demonstrating the right way to do CPR, and yes he has "Staying Alive" queued up in his iPhone and ready to play should the need arise.

Quality slides helped keep the presentation moving along, and his suggestions as to what works and what's derp in the first aid realm was very helpful:

Boys! Tourniquet! - We learned how to both self-apply tourniquets and apply them on other people to stop arterial bleeding:

Here's LawDog giving his talk:

If you have an opportunity to take this class, Do It.

Kelly and his assistants are great instructors and the vital info and hands-on practice under their expert eyes may one day save your life or the life of another.

As I had taken the class last year it was a great refresher and the additional first aid kit will be put to good use as well.

Hopefully LawDog's portion of the class can be enlarged as he was very much worth listening to and I expect we would learn much, much more had there been time.

The class was also a great opportunity to give The Most Interesting Man in The World the shirt I had mentioned that was a secret:

Yes it says "The Most Interesting Dinosaur In The World". Click to embiggen and read the rest of the shirt.

NRA Convention Interlude

At the gathering at our hotel Saturday night, after the blogger gathering, I bought this from Old NFO, which he kindly autographed:

Old NFO is quite the fellow.

He knows everybody, always has a good story to tell, always is pleased to meet you, and is amongst the finest gentlemen I've had the pleasure to meet.

So, I was wandering the Internets and found this incontrovertible proof of the above facts:

Yes, "The Most Interesting Man In The World" is Old NFO's bitch. That is all.