( plus , as an added bonus the series was set in new mexico ) and no matter what happened in the next few minutes he would n't trade this rare opportunity to do something genuinely heroic for any of his seemingly endless typically boring days spent reading over and signing various reports , listening to trivial officer squabbles , shuffling tons of paperwork from both the state and federal authorities , and the 'ever thrilling ' meetings with bureaucrats and politicians who always were looking for ways to slash his department 's budget .